Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
4 results found tagged floor plans.
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Automated Description Generation for Indoor Floor Maps
This demonstration paper presents a prototype system that automatically generates verbal descriptions of indoor floor maps to support navigation for people with visual impairments. The system addresses a practical gap: while tools like canes, guide d…
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Creating Accessible Online Floor Plans for Visually Impaired Readers
This paper presents a generic model for converting online graphics—specifically house floor plans—into accessible formats for blind and severely vision-impaired users. The model supports both fully automatic and semi-automatic transcription, allowing…
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Accessible On-line Graphics
This is an alternate ACM Digital Library entry (DOI: 10.1145/2745555.2746672) for the same paper also catalogued under DOI: 10.1145/2578726.2746672. Please see the full review under that DOI for complete summary, key findings, and relevance analysis.…
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Accessible On-line Graphics
This doctoral consortium paper proposes semi-automated methods for transcribing online graphics — particularly floor plans — into accessible formats for blind users. The research is motivated by the fundamental problem that screen readers and voice s…