Literature Reviews

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

• An Approach to the Evaluation of Assistive Technology

  Robert D. Stevens, Alistair D. N. Edwards (1996) — Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '96)

  This University of York paper addresses a fundamental challenge in assistive technology research: the difficulty of conducting rigorous evaluations using conventional controlled testing paradigms. The authors identify several obstacles specific to as…

  • assistive technology evaluation
  • mathematical accessibility
  • blind users
  • earcon
  • auditory interface
  • usability testing
  • research methodology
  • STEM accessibility

• Capability Survey of Japanese User Agents and Its Impact on Web Accessibility

  Takayuki Watanabe, Masahiro Umegaki (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A): Building the Mobile Web: Rediscovering Accessibility?

  This paper presents a systematic evaluation of four major Japanese user agents for people with visual disabilities — IBM Home Page Reader 3.04 (a voice browser), PC-Talker XP 3.04, 95 Reader 6.0, and JAWS 6.2 (Japanese edition) — tested against the W…

  • user agents
  • screen readers
  • UAAG
  • assistive technology evaluation
  • Japanese accessibility
  • accessibility standards harmonization
  • PDF accessibility
  • Flash accessibility
  • baseline