Literature Reviews

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

• Enriching Web Information Scent for Blind Users

  Markel Vigo, Barbara Leporini, Fabio Paternò (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper investigates whether annotating web links with accessibility scores of their target pages can improve navigation efficiency for blind screen reader users. The core idea draws on information foraging theory: just as sighted users follow vis…

  • web accessibility
  • blind users
  • screen readers
  • information scent
  • information foraging
  • adaptive navigation
  • automated evaluation
  • web usability

• UIClip: A Data-driven Model for Assessing User Interface Design

  Jason Wu, Yi-Hao Peng, Xin Yue Amanda Li, Amanda Swearngin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jeffrey Nichols (2024) — Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '24)

  This paper introduces UIClip, a computational model that automatically assesses UI design quality and visual relevance from a screenshot and natural language description. Built on OpenAI's CLIP B/32 architecture (151 million parameters), UIClip is fi…

  • UI design
  • machine learning
  • design quality assessment
  • computer vision
  • CLIP
  • visual design
  • design tools
  • user interface
  • automated evaluation

• Three web accessibility evaluation perspectives for RIA

  Nádia Fernandes, Ana Sofia Batista, Daniel Costa, Carlos Duarte, Luís Carriço (2013) — Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper presents a large-scale comparative study of web accessibility evaluation across three distinct perspectives that reflect how Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are actually experienced by users. The three evaluation perspectives are: E1, ev…

  • automated evaluation
  • Rich Internet Applications
  • dynamic content
  • AJAX
  • DOM
  • web accessibility evaluation
  • browser processing

• An analysis of personalized web accessibility

  Nádia Fernandes, Nikolaos Kaklanis, Konstantinos Votis, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Luís Carriço (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents an experimental study comparing generic (all-disabilities) web accessibility evaluations with personalized evaluations tailored to specific disability profiles. Using the WaaT (Web Accessibility Assessment Tool) evaluator, the aut…

  • accessibility testing
  • automated evaluation
  • personalization
  • accessibility metrics
  • WCAG compliance
  • disability profiles

• Continuous Web Personalization using Selector-template Pairs

  Vagner Figueredo de Santana, M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas (2019) — Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a continuous web personalization approach that automatically adjusts website user interfaces based on observed usage patterns to reduce accessibility barriers and usability problems. Built on the WELFIT (Web Event Logger and Flow …

  • web personalization
  • accessibility
  • usability
  • interaction logging
  • data mining
  • JavaScript
  • adaptive interface
  • automated evaluation
  • user experience
  • assistive technology