Literature Reviews

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

• Collaborative Music Application for Visually Impaired People with Tangible Objects on Table

  Shotaro Omori, Ikuko Eguchi Yairi (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This short paper presents a collaborative music composition application designed to enable visually impaired and sighted people to work together on equal ground. The system uses a tabletop tangible interface inspired by Reactable, where physical obje…

  • visual impairment
  • tangible user interface
  • music accessibility
  • collaborative design
  • AR markers
  • Kinect
  • social inclusion

• How Accessible is the Process of Web Interface Design?

  Kirk Norman, Yevgeniy Arber, Ravi Kuber (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '13)

  This short paper investigates the accessibility challenges faced by blind web interface developers through interviews with six legally blind participants (all male, aged 29-48) who had experience building websites and online applications. Five used J…

  • blind developers
  • web development
  • screen readers
  • programming accessibility
  • JAWS
  • collaborative design
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • workplace accessibility
  • developer tools