Literature Reviews

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

• Visualization of Speech Prosody and Emotion in Captions: Accessibility for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users

  Caluã de Lacerda Pataca, Matthew Watkins, Roshan Peiris, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth (2023) — Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)

  This CHI 2023 paper tackles a dimension of captioning that has gone largely unaddressed for four decades: captions depict words but strip out the prosody and emotion carried by a speaker's voice. The authors argue that while automatic speech recognit…

  • captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • prosody
  • affective computing
  • videoconferencing accessibility
  • typography
  • automatic speech recognition
  • color accessibility
  • qualitative research

• SmartColor: Disambiguation Framework for the Colorblind

  Ken Wakita, Kenta Shimamura (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper presents SmartColor, a framework that automatically repaints coloured documents so that people with colour vision deficiencies can perceive the same colour effects — such as contrast, shared colour grouping, and distinguishability — that t…

  • color blindness
  • color accessibility
  • color contrast
  • data visualization
  • constraint systems
  • recoloring
  • visual accessibility

• Improving Calibration Time and Accuracy for Situation-Specific Models of Color Differentiation

  David R. Flatla, Carl Gutwin (2011) — The Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This paper presents ICD-2, a significantly improved situation-specific model of human color differentiation designed to make personalised color accessibility tools practical for real-world use. Color vision deficiencies (CVDs) affect people's ability…

  • color vision deficiency
  • color blindness
  • color accessibility
  • calibration
  • color differentiation
  • recoloring
  • personalization
  • visual accessibility

• ACE: A Colour Palette Design Tool for Balancing Aesthetics and Accessibility

  Garreth W. Tigwell, David R. Flatla, Neil D. Archibald (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents ACE (Accessible Colour Evaluator), an online tool designed to help web developers and designers balance aesthetic preferences with accessibility requirements when choosing website color palettes. The research addresses a significa…

  • color accessibility
  • colour vision deficiency
  • color blindness
  • web design
  • design tools
  • WCAG
  • contrast ratio
  • user-centered design
  • accessibility testing