Literature Reviews

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

• Development and Evaluation of a Tool for Assisting Content Creators in Making PDF Files More Accessible

  Debashish Pradhan, Tripti Rajput, Aravind Jembu Rajkumar, Jonathan Lazar, Rajiv Jain, Vlad I. Morariu, Varun Manjunatha (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents the development and evaluation of "Ally," a web-based tool designed to help content creators remediate PDF documents for accessibility. While trillions of PDF documents exist online, only a small fraction include the metadata nece…

  • PDF accessibility
  • document remediation
  • content tagging
  • reading order
  • accessible tables
  • heading structure
  • assistive technology
  • screen readers
  • usability study

• Accessible PDFs: Applying Artificial Intelligence for Automated Remediation of STEM PDFs

  Felix M. Schmitt-Koopmann, Elaine M. Huang, Alireza Darvishy (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2022)

  This Ph.D. research paper presents a plan to leverage artificial intelligence to automate the remediation of PDF documents from STEM fields, addressing one of the most significant barriers to information access for people with visual impairments. The…

  • PDF accessibility
  • document remediation
  • artificial intelligence
  • STEM accessibility
  • mathematical formulae
  • screen readers
  • document analysis
  • deep learning
  • assistive technology