Literature Reviews

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

• Nonvisual Support for Understanding and Reasoning about Data Structures

  Brianna L. Wimer, Ritesh Kanchi, Kaija Frierson, Venkatesh Potluri, Ronald A. Metoyer, Jennifer Mankoff, Miya Natsuhara, Matt X. Wang (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Wimer, Kanchi, and colleagues present Arboretum, a web-based system that generates accessible representations of introductory data structure diagrams (arrays and binary trees) for blind and visually impaired (BVI) computer science students. The autho…

  • blind and low vision
  • BVI
  • screen readers
  • tactile graphics
  • data structures
  • computer science education
  • accessible diagrams
  • diagramming
  • nonvisual interaction
  • multimodal access
  • WAI-ARIA
  • WCAG
  • Mermaid
  • Graphviz
  • wizard of oz
  • accessible education