Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged aural navigation.

VoxBoox: A System for Automatic Generation of Interactive Talking Books

Aanchal Jain, Gopal Gupta (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

This poster paper from the University of Texas at Dallas presents VoxBoox, a system that automatically converts HTML-coded digital books into interactive talking books accessible via telephone. The system works by translating HTML pages into VoiceXML…
UMA: A System for Universal Mathematics Accessibility

A. I. Karshmer, G. Gupta, E. Pontelli, K. Miesenberger, N. Ammalai, D. Gopal, M. Batusic, B. Stöger, B. Palmer, H-F. Guo (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

This paper presents the Universal Mathematics Accessibility (UMA) system, a multi-institution collaboration to make mathematical content interoperable between the notation systems used by blind and sighted individuals. The fundamental problem is that…
Exploring Aural Navigation by Screenless Access

Mikaylah Gross, Joe Dara, Christopher Meyer, Davide Bolchini (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

This paper introduces screenless access, a paradigm for browsing aural information architectures using one-handed, in-air gestures recognised by an off-the-shelf Myo armband, freeing blind and visually impaired users from the constraint of holding an…