Literature Reviews

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

• From Assistive Technology to a Web Accessibility Service

  Peter G. Fairweather, Vicki L. Hanson, Sam R. Detweiler, Richard S. Schwerdtfeger (2002) — Proceedings of the Fifth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets 02)

  This paper from IBM Research examines the challenge of making the increasingly complex World Wide Web accessible to people with sensory, cognitive, and motor disabilities. The authors argue that while evolving web architectures — moving from simple H…

  • web accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • adaptive interfaces
  • web services
  • proxy-based accessibility
  • content transformation

• PDF Readability Enhancement on Mobile Devices

  Zachary Shelton, Chen-Hsiang Yu (2020) — Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents PDFroggy, an Android application that applies content transformation techniques to PDF documents on mobile devices to enhance readability. The research addresses a specific gap: while previous work has demonstrated that content tr…

  • PDF accessibility
  • readability
  • mobile accessibility
  • content transformation
  • document accessibility
  • dyslexia
  • ESL readers