Literature Reviews

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

• Designing a Scripting Language to Help the Blind Program Visually

  Kenneth G. Franqueiro, Robert M. Siegfried (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper addresses the significant barrier that GUI-based programming environments pose for blind programmers. While programming was historically one of the more accessible professions for blind individuals — with the American Federation for the Bl…

  • blind programmers
  • visual programming
  • graphical user interfaces
  • scripting languages
  • IDE accessibility
  • Visual Basic