Literature Reviews

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

• Improving the Accessibility of Mobile OCR Apps Via Interactive Modalities

  Michael Cutter, Roberto Manduchi (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper addresses a critical usability challenge in mobile OCR for blind users: while OCR technology itself works well, it requires properly framed images at adequate resolution—something difficult to achieve without visual feedback. Blind users c…

  • OCR
  • mobile accessibility
  • blindness
  • camera guidance
  • computer vision
  • text recognition

• Revisiting Blind Photography in the Context of Teachable Object Recognizers

  Kyungjun Lee, Jonggi Hong, Simone Pimento, Ebrima Jarjue, Hernisa Kacorri (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper introduces a real-time audio-haptic feedback system to help people with visual impairments frame objects in their smartphone camera when training teachable object recognizers. The challenge is that teachable recognizers — which let users t…

  • blind photography
  • teachable object recognizer
  • computer vision
  • deep learning
  • visual impairment
  • sonification
  • haptic feedback
  • camera guidance
  • object recognition
  • machine learning
  • assistive technology