Literature Reviews

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

• V-Lynx: Bringing the World Wide Web to Sight Impaired Users

  Mitchell Krell, Davor Cubranic (1996) — Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '96)

  This 1996 paper from the University of Southern Mississippi presents V-Lynx, one of the earliest voice-enabled web browsers designed to make the World Wide Web accessible to sight-impaired users. At this time, WWW traffic had only recently become sig…

  • web accessibility
  • screen reader
  • speech synthesis
  • web browser
  • blind users
  • non-visual browsing
  • HTML
  • hypertext navigation
  • accessibility history