Literature Reviews

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

• TextSL: A Command-Based Virtual World Interface for the Visually Impaired

  Eelke Folmer, Bei Yuan, Dave Carr, Manjari Sapre (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper presents TextSL, a text-based client for the virtual world Second Life that enables access via screen readers. Second Life is a non-game virtual world where users control avatars to explore 3D environments, socialise with others, and inter…

  • virtual worlds
  • visual impairment
  • screen readers
  • game accessibility
  • social interaction
  • command-line interface
  • Second Life
  • alternative interface

• TextSL: a screen reader accessible interface for second life

  Bugra Oktay, Eelke Folmer (2010) — Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper presents TextSL, a text-based command interface for Second Life that enables visually impaired users to explore and interact with the virtual world using a screen reader (JAWS). Inspired by multi-user dungeon (MUD) text adventure games lik…

  • virtual worlds
  • screen readers
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • text-based interface
  • command-line interface
  • Second Life
  • game accessibility