Literature Reviews

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

• ITHACA: An Open Source Framework for Building Component-Based Augmentative and Alternative Communication Applications

  Alexandros Pino, Georgios Kouroupetroglou (2010) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper introduces ITHACA, an open source software framework for developing modular, customizable AAC applications. The authors address a persistent problem in assistive technology: AAC products are typically expensive, monolithic, difficult to cu…

  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • AAC
  • open source
  • assistive technology
  • component-based development
  • Design for All
  • speech synthesis
  • symbol communication
  • cerebral palsy
  • software framework

• Web Composition with WCAG in Mind

  Vicente Luque Centeno, Carlos Delgado Kloos, Martin Gaedke, Martin Nussbaumer (2005) — Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper argues that accessibility should be built into the web authoring process rather than treated as a post-design repair activity. The authors address the specific challenge of web composition — the common practice of building web pages by dyn…

  • web composition
  • authoring tools
  • WCAG compliance
  • accessibility by design
  • component-based development
  • HTML validation
  • automated accessibility