Literature Reviews

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

• Designing an Accessible Clothing Tag System for People with Vision Impairments

  Michele A. Williams, Kathryn Ringland, Amy Hurst (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '13)

  This short paper explores the design of accessible clothing identification systems for people with vision impairments. The authors note that many clothing characteristics — color, pattern, fabric type, care instructions — are inherently visual and th…

  • vision impairment
  • blind users
  • RFID
  • wearable technology
  • daily living
  • fashion accessibility
  • participatory design
  • independent living
  • QR codes
  • Arduino

• Crowdsourcing Subjective Fashion Advice Using VizWiz: Challenges and Opportunities

  Michele A. Burton, Erin Brady, Robin Brewer, Callie Neylan, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Hurst (2012) — ASSETS '12: Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper investigates the accessibility barriers that fashion and clothing present to people with vision impairments, and explores whether crowdsourcing through VizWiz can provide useful subjective fashion advice. The research is grounded in the re…

  • blind users
  • crowdsourcing
  • fashion accessibility
  • VizWiz
  • subjective questions
  • social participation
  • assistive technology
  • trust