Literature Reviews

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

• Hyperbraille: a hypertext system for the blind

  T. Kieninger, N. Kuhn (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This 1994 paper presents Hyperbraille, a system designed to make hypertext documents accessible to blind users through braille output devices. The research addresses a fundamental challenge: hypertext systems rely heavily on visual cues such as highl…

  • Braille
  • hypertext
  • blind users
  • navigation
  • document analysis
  • accessibility
  • office workplace
  • braille display
  • link management
  • non-visual browsing
  • document conversion

• Extraction of Tabular Data from Document Images

  Manolis Vasileiadis, Nikolaos Kaklanis, Konstantinos Votis, Dimitrios Tzovaras (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This demonstration paper presents an open-source tool for automatically detecting and extracting tabular data from document images — both scanned and digitally created — and converting them into accessible HTML format. The work addresses a significan…

  • document accessibility
  • OCR
  • table recognition
  • visual impairment
  • document conversion
  • image processing