Literature Reviews

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

• Transforming Web Pages to Become Standard-Compliant through Reverse Engineering

  Benfeng Chen, Vincent Y. Shen (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper addresses the problem of transforming legacy, non-standards-compliant web pages into valid HTML with proper separation of content and presentation — a fundamental requirement for web accessibility. In 2006, over 95% of web pages failed W3C…

  • web standards
  • HTML validation
  • CSS
  • automated remediation
  • layout tables
  • reverse engineering
  • separation of concerns

• Towards Generating Web-Accessible STEM Documents from PDF

  Volker Sorge, Mark Lee, Sandy Wilkinson (2020) — Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a fully automated, web-based pipeline for converting PDF documents into accessible HTML and ePub formats, with a particular focus on STEM content containing mathematical formulas and tables. The authors address a fundamental probl…

  • document accessibility
  • PDF conversion
  • STEM accessibility
  • mathematical formulas
  • automated remediation
  • HTML conversion
  • ePub

• From Cluttered to Clear: Improving the Web Accessibility Design for Screen Reader Users in E-commerce With Generative AI

  Yaman Yu, Bektur Ryskeldiev, Ayaka Tsutsui, Matthew Gillingham, Yang Wang (2025) — ASSETS '25: Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper explores how Generative AI (GenAI) can be used to automatically restructure the HTML of shopping websites to improve accessibility for screen reader users. Blind and low vision users face persistent barriers on e-commerce sites — complex l…

  • screen readers
  • web accessibility
  • generative AI
  • e-commerce
  • blind and low vision
  • HTML structure
  • automated remediation