Literature Reviews

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

• Speaking Through Pictures: Images vs. Icons

  Xiaojuan Ma, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Sonya Nikolova, Perry R. Cook (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper investigates whether freely available web images can serve as effective substitutes for professionally designed icons in assistive communication systems for people with aphasia. Existing icon-based systems like Lingraphica and C-VIC (Compu…

  • aphasia
  • augmentative and alternative communication
  • visual communication
  • icon-based communication
  • assistive technology
  • web images
  • elderly users
  • cognitive accessibility