Literature Reviews

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

• Idea11y: Enhancing Accessibility in Collaborative Ideation for Blind or Low Vision Screen Reader Users

  Mingyi Li, Huiru Yang, Nihar Sanda, Maitraye Das (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Digital whiteboards such as Miro and FigJam have become central to brainstorming, design sprints, and UX research, yet their reliance on freeform spatial layout, drag-and-drop manipulation, and rapid visual scanning leaves blind and low-vision (BLV) …

  • blind and low vision
  • screen readers
  • digital whiteboards
  • collaborative ideation
  • creativity support
  • ability-diverse collaboration
  • gestalt principles
  • auditory cues
  • voice coding
  • brainstorming

• VizXpress: Towards Expressive Visual Content by Blind Creators Through AI Support

  Lotus Zhang, Zhuohao (Jerry) Zhang, Gina Clepper, Franklin Mingzhe Li, Patrick Carrington, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Leah Findlater (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper investigates how blind individuals engage with and desire to create expressive visual content — moving beyond the functional accessibility tasks (like privacy preservation or layout correction) that prior research has focused on. The autho…

  • blindness
  • visual expression
  • creativity support
  • AI accessibility
  • image editing
  • vision-language model
  • screen reader
  • aesthetic feedback
  • design probe
  • generative AI

• EditScribe: Non-Visual Image Editing with Natural Language Verification Loops

  Ruei-Che Chang, Yuxuan Liu, Lotus Zhang, Anhong Guo (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper introduces EditScribe, a prototype system that makes image editing accessible to blind and low vision (BLV) users through natural language interaction powered by large multimodal models (LMMs). Image editing is inherently visual and iterat…

  • blind and low vision
  • image editing
  • generative AI
  • large multimodal models
  • natural language interaction
  • creativity support
  • visual authoring
  • non-visual interaction