Literature Reviews

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

• A Demonstration of PhotoTacs: A Simple Image-Based Phone Dialing Interface for People with Cognitive or Visual Impairments

  Michael J. Astrauskas, John A. Black Jr, Sethuraman Panchanathan (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This paper from Arizona State University's Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing demonstrates PhotoTacs, an image-based phone book application for smart phones designed for people with cognitive disabilities, visual impairments, or illiteracy. Th…

  • cognitive accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • mobile accessibility
  • simplified interface
  • assistive technology
  • phone accessibility
  • image-based interface
  • illiteracy

• PhotoTacs: An Image-Based Cell Phone Interface

  Michael J. Astrauskas (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This paper presents PhotoTacs, a simplified image-based cell phone interface designed to help people with cognitive or visual impairments navigate their phone contacts and make calls. The author begins by identifying the core problem: as cellular pho…

  • cognitive accessibility
  • mobile accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • visual impairment
  • user interface design
  • cognitive disabilities
  • image-based interface
  • simplified interface