Literature Reviews

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

• Usability of a multimodal videogame to improve navigation skills for blind children

  Jaime Sánchez, Mauricio Sáenz, Miguel Ripoll (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper presents a usability evaluation of two complementary tools designed to help blind school-aged children develop orientation and mobility (O&M) skills in closed, unfamiliar spaces. The first tool is the Digital Clock Carpet (DCC), a custom-b…

  • blind children
  • orientation and mobility
  • haptic interfaces
  • audio interfaces
  • virtual environments
  • navigation
  • usability evaluation
  • assistive gaming

• VBGhost: A Braille-Based Educational Smartphone Game for Children

  Lauren R. Milne, Cynthia L. Bennett, Richard E. Ladner (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '13)

  This short paper presents VBGhost, an accessible educational smartphone game for blind and low vision children that reinforces Braille literacy through gameplay. The game is based on Ghost, a word-building game where players take turns adding letters…

  • braille
  • mobile accessibility
  • game accessibility
  • blind children
  • education
  • haptic feedback
  • touchscreen
  • braille literacy
  • Android
  • inclusive design