Literature Reviews

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

• TouchScribe: Augmenting Non-Visual Hand-Object Interactions with Automated Live Visual Descriptions

  Ruei-Che Chang, Rosiana Natalie, Wenqian Xu, Jovan Zheng Feng Yap, Tiange Luo, Venkatesh Potluri, Anhong Guo (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  TouchScribe is a wearable, camera-based assistive system that delivers live, hierarchical visual descriptions of physical objects in response to a blind or low vision (BLV) user's hand-object interactions. The authors argue that existing AI assistant…

  • blind and low vision
  • assistive technology
  • visual descriptions
  • hand-object interactions
  • gestures
  • large language models
  • vision-language models
  • egocentric vision
  • tactile exploration
  • wearable cameras

• Slide Rule: Making Mobile Touch Screens Accessible to Blind People Using Multi-Touch Interaction Techniques

  Shaun K. Kane, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2008) — Assets '08: Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper introduces Slide Rule, a set of audio-based multi-touch interaction techniques that make touch screen devices accessible to blind users without requiring any additional hardware. Published in 2008 — just one year after the iPhone launched …

  • blind users
  • touch screens
  • mobile accessibility
  • multi-touch interaction
  • gestures
  • screen readers
  • assistive technology
  • eyes-free interaction

• Accessible Touchscreen Technology for People with Visual Impairments: A Survey

  William Grussenmeyer, Eelke Folmer (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This comprehensive survey reviews the state of the art in touchscreen accessibility for people who are blind or have low vision, covering research from the mid-1990s through 2016. The authors organize the field by input modalities (gestural, voice, s…

  • touchscreen accessibility
  • mobile accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • screen readers
  • gestures
  • text entry
  • haptics
  • sonification
  • survey