Literature Reviews

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

• Middleware to Expand Context and Preview in Hypertext

  Simon Harper, Carole Goble, Robert Stevens, Yeliz Yesilada (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper presents a middleware tool that automatically annotates web pages with expanded context and preview information for hypertext links, addressing a core navigation problem for visually impaired web users. The authors draw an analogy between …

  • web accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • web navigation
  • web transcoding
  • link context
  • screen reader
  • hypertext
  • web mobility

• A Comparison of Voice Controlled and Mouse Controlled Web Browsing

  Kevin Christian, Bill Kules, Ben Shneiderman, Adel Youssef (2000) — Proceedings of the Fourth International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '00)

  This within-subjects study from the University of Maryland compared voice-controlled web browsing with traditional mouse-based browsing using 18 participants. The researchers used Conversa, a commercial voice browser from Conversational Computing tha…

  • voice browser
  • speech recognition
  • web navigation
  • voice control
  • hypertext
  • user research
  • usability testing
  • web accessibility
  • input methods

• Hyperbraille: a hypertext system for the blind

  T. Kieninger, N. Kuhn (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This 1994 paper presents Hyperbraille, a system designed to make hypertext documents accessible to blind users through braille output devices. The research addresses a fundamental challenge: hypertext systems rely heavily on visual cues such as highl…

  • Braille
  • hypertext
  • blind users
  • navigation
  • document analysis
  • accessibility
  • office workplace
  • braille display
  • link management
  • non-visual browsing
  • document conversion