Literature Reviews

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

• A Study of Blind Drawing Practice: Creating Graphical Information Without the Visual Channel

  Hesham M. Kamel, James A. Landay (2000) — Proceedings of the Fourth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '00)

  This paper from UC Berkeley investigates how blind users create drawings and proposes a grid-based model for non-visual drawing tools. The researchers began by observing that existing drawing tools for blind users fail because they lack adequate cont…

  • tactile graphics
  • blindness and low vision
  • non-visual interaction
  • drawing tools
  • accessible graphics
  • user research
  • graphical accessibility