Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
7 results found tagged accessible education.
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Nonvisual Support for Understanding and Reasoning about Data Structures
Wimer, Kanchi, and colleagues present Arboretum, a web-based system that generates accessible representations of introductory data structure diagrams (arrays and binary trees) for blind and visually impaired (BVI) computer science students. The autho…
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MotionBuddy: Exploring Tactile-Based Motion Learning with a Tabletop Humanoid Robot for Blind People
This HRI 2026 study by the same team behind the earlier 3D tactile-pose work asks whether a tabletop humanoid robot can convey dynamic body movements to blind learners more effectively than audio instruction alone. The motivation is that physical 3D …
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Touching Movement: 3D Tactile Poses for Supporting Blind People in Learning Body Movements
Tanaka and colleagues investigate whether 3D-printed tactile models of whole-body poses can help blind learners acquire physical movements that are normally taught through visual demonstration. Verbal descriptions are notoriously inconsistent and str…
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Modeling Educational Software for People with Disabilities: Theory and Practice
This paper proposes a unified modelling framework for developing educational software for people with sensory disabilities, drawing on two existing systems as case studies: AudioDoom for blind children and Whisper for hearing-impaired users. The auth…
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Inspiring Blind High School Students to Pursue Computer Science with Instant Messaging Chatbots
This paper describes the design and delivery of a four-day computer science workshop for fifteen blind high school students at the National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam, where two hundred blind and low vision students explored disciplines often…
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Accessible Web Development: Opportunities to Improve the Education and Practice of web Development with a Screen Reader
This paper investigates accessibility barriers faced by blind web developers in both educational and professional contexts. The researchers employed a Comprehensive Literature Review (CLR) methodology—synthesizing academic literature, blog posts by b…
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A no-frills approach for accessible Web-based learning material
This paper from Sapienza University of Rome proposes a methodology for creating accessible web-based learning materials that centres the role of the "didactical expert" (instructional designer/subject matter expert) rather than relying solely on tech…