Literature Reviews

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

• Steering Generative Models for Accessibility: EasyRead Image Generation

  Nicolas Dickenmann, Yanis Merzouki, Sonia Laguna, Thy Nowak-Tran, Emanuele Palumbo, Julia E. Vogt, Gerda Binder (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)

  Dickenmann and colleagues (ETH Zurich and UNICEF Digital Impact Division) present the first open-source pipeline for generating Easy Read-style pictograms using a fine-tuned diffusion model. Easy Read pairs short sentences with simple, high-contrast …

  • diffusion models
  • stable diffusion
  • LoRA
  • generative AI
  • cognitive accessibility
  • intellectual disability
  • pictograms
  • Easy Read
  • AAC
  • symbol communication
  • image generation

• Multi-view Mouth Renderization for Assisting Lip-reading

  Andrea Britto Mattos, Dario Augusto Borges Oliveira (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents an assistive tool that uses Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to enhance video for people who rely on lip-reading. The core problem is that lip-readers generally prefer a frontal view of a speaker's face, but in real-world vi…

  • lip-reading
  • hearing impairment
  • Deaf and hard of hearing
  • deep learning
  • generative adversarial networks
  • computer vision
  • assistive technology
  • video accessibility
  • synthetic data
  • 3D modeling
  • image generation
  • viseme
  • speechreading