Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged earcon.
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Nonvisual Tool for Navigating Hierarchical Structures
This paper presents the Aural Tree Navigator, an Eclipse IDE plug-in that enables blind programmers to navigate hierarchical program structures (such as package explorers, class hierarchies, and file systems) using keyboard commands and speech/sound …
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An Approach to the Evaluation of Assistive Technology
This University of York paper addresses a fundamental challenge in assistive technology research: the difficulty of conducting rigorous evaluations using conventional controlled testing paradigms. The authors identify several obstacles specific to as…
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Advanced Auditory Menus: Design and Evaluation of Auditory Scroll Bars
This paper from the Sonification Lab at Georgia Institute of Technology investigates how to design auditory scrollbars — non-speech sound cues that convey contextual information (menu size, current position) while navigating auditory menus. Visual me…
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Automatic impact sound generation for using in nonvisual interfaces
This paper describes a joint research project between the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) aimed at developing an audio framework for non-visual interfaces based on physically modeled impact sounds. Rather than…
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Comprehensive Accessibility of Equations by Visually Impaired
This doctoral consortium paper proposes an approach to improving the audio rendering of mathematical equations for people with visual impairments by introducing a complexity metric that adapts how equations are spoken based on their structural comple…