Literature Reviews

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

• The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII)

  Gregg C. Vanderheiden, Jutta Treviranus, Amrish Chourasia (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper describes the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII), an ambitious international initiative to build a cloud-based infrastructure that can automatically personalize any device or technology to match an individual user's accessibilit…

  • GPII
  • cloud accessibility
  • auto-personalization
  • assistive technology
  • digital divide
  • inclusive design
  • infrastructure

• Personalization and Layering to Simplify Computer Accessibility

  Gregg Vanderheiden, J. Bern Jordan (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This demonstration paper presents Morphic, an operating system extension that combines auto-personalization, complexity layering, enhanced feature discovery, and Install on Demand (IoD) to make computers easier to use for people who face barriers due…

  • auto-personalization
  • cognitive accessibility
  • digital literacy
  • assistive technology
  • operating system accessibility
  • inclusive design
  • personalization
  • simplification
  • layered interface