Literature Reviews

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

• Making Microsoft Excel Accessible: Multimodal Presentation of Charts

  Iyad Abu Doush, Enrico Pontelli, Dominic Simon, Tran Cao Son, Ou Ma (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper presents a system for making Microsoft Excel charts accessible to people with visual impairments through a combination of haptic force feedback and audio cues. The authors identify that while screen readers and specialised tools can handle…

  • data visualization
  • haptic technology
  • sonification
  • visual impairment
  • charts
  • multimodal interaction
  • Microsoft Excel
  • accessible graphs

• Producing Accessible Statistics Diagrams in R

  Donal Fitzpatrick, A. Jonathan R. Godfrey, Volker Sorge (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a system for making statistical diagrams accessible to blind users by generating semantically enriched SVG graphics from the R statistical computing environment. The core problem is that statistical graphics — bar charts, histogra…

  • data visualization accessibility
  • STEM accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • SVG
  • statistics
  • R programming
  • accessible diagrams
  • hierarchical navigation
  • BrailleR
  • interactive exploration
  • education accessibility
  • charts
  • graphs