Literature Reviews

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

• IDEAL: A Dyslexic-Friendly eBook Reader

  Gaurang Kanvinde, Luz Rello, Ricardo Baeza-Yates (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This demonstration paper presents the IDEAL eBook Reader, an Android application that displays ePub-formatted ebooks with a text layout specifically adapted for readers with dyslexia. The design is grounded in empirical research: layout guidelines we…

  • dyslexia
  • readability
  • ebook
  • ePub
  • text-to-speech
  • assistive technology
  • Android
  • text layout
  • reading accessibility
  • cognitive accessibility

• Towards Generating Web-Accessible STEM Documents from PDF

  Volker Sorge, Mark Lee, Sandy Wilkinson (2020) — Proceedings of the 17th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a fully automated, web-based pipeline for converting PDF documents into accessible HTML and ePub formats, with a particular focus on STEM content containing mathematical formulas and tables. The authors address a fundamental probl…

  • document accessibility
  • PDF conversion
  • STEM accessibility
  • mathematical formulas
  • automated remediation
  • HTML conversion
  • ePub