Literature Reviews

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

• The CISNA model of accessible adaptive hypermedia

  Robert Dodd, Steve Green, Elaine Pearson (2008) — Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper presents CISNA (Content, Inventory, Semantics, Navigation, Adaptation), a five-layer document model designed to make web content adaptable to individual user needs and capabilities. The research addresses a fundamental problem: as web page…

  • adaptive hypermedia
  • abstract user interface
  • hypertext models
  • assistive technology
  • content adaptation

• 20 years on: the Dexter Model of Hypertext and its impact on web accessibility

  Robert Dodd (2008) — SIGACCESS Access. Comput.

  This paper examines the Dexter Reference Model of Hypertext, published in 1988, and asks whether the foundational assumptions it encodes still serve the needs of accessibility twenty years later. The Dexter Model was created as a superset description…

  • hypertext models
  • HTML
  • assistive technology
  • adaptive content
  • web standards