Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• RouteCheckr: Personalized Multicriteria Routing for Mobility Impaired Pedestrians

  Thorsten Völkel, Gerhard Weber (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This paper presents RouteCheckr, a client/server system for personalised pedestrian navigation that calculates routes optimised for multiple criteria relevant to mobility impaired users. The authors identify three key shortcomings of existing navigat…

  • navigation
  • wayfinding
  • wheelchair accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • mobility
  • personalization
  • crowdsourcing
  • algorithms
  • pedestrian navigation
  • urban accessibility

• Grouping Hyperlinks for Improved Voice/Mobile Accessibility

  Alex Penev, Raymond K. Wong (2008) — Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from UNSW Sydney proposes an automatic technique for clustering a web page's hyperlinks into topical groups to help blind screen reader users and mobile device users locate desired links more quickly. The core problem is that sighted users…

  • web accessibility
  • screen readers
  • blind users
  • navigation
  • mobile accessibility
  • clustering
  • information retrieval
  • algorithms