Literature Reviews

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

• Enabling Access to Geo-referenced Information: Atlas.txt

  Kavita E. Thomas, Livia Sumegi, Leo Ferres, Somayajulu Sripada (2008) — Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from the University of Aberdeen and Carleton University presents Atlas.txt, a data-to-text natural language generation (NLG) system designed to make geo-referenced data — such as census maps and thematic choropleth maps — accessible to vis…

  • natural language generation
  • visual impairment
  • data accessibility
  • geographic information
  • data visualization
  • screen readers
  • census data

• Accessible Map Visualization Prototype

  Tania Calle-Jimenez, Sergio Luján-Mora (2016) — Proceedings of the 13th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper from Ecuador's National Polytechnic School and the University of Alicante presents a prototype for making online geographic maps accessible to people with visual disabilities. The authors identify four key accessibility barriers in web-bas…

  • data visualization
  • visual impairment
  • color blindness
  • SVG
  • web accessibility
  • geographic information
  • keyboard accessibility
  • screen readers