Literature Reviews

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

• Understanding How Deaf and Hard of Hearing Viewers Visually Explore Captioned Live TV News

  Akhter Al Amin, Saad Hassan, Sooyeon Lee, Matt Huenerfauth (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A '23)

  This study investigates how Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) viewers distribute their visual attention across different information regions on screen while watching captioned live television news. More than 360 million people worldwide are DHH, and man…

  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • captioning
  • eye tracking
  • television accessibility
  • caption placement
  • gaze behavior
  • live captioning
  • news consumption
  • attention
  • caption quality metrics

• Characterizing Visual Intents for People with Low Vision through Eye Tracking

  Ru Wang, Ruijia Chen, Anqiao Erica Cai, Zhiyuan Li, Sanbrita Mondal, Yuhang Zhao (2025) — Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025)

  This study investigates how people with low vision use their gaze when viewing images, with the goal of understanding their visual intents — the immediate, in-the-moment goals behind their eye movements. While assistive technologies like magnifiers a…

  • low vision
  • eye tracking
  • visual intent
  • gaze behavior
  • assistive technology
  • user research
  • image accessibility