Literature Reviews

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

• Visual Challenges in the Everyday Lives of Blind People

  Erin Brady, Meredith Ringel Morris, Yu Zhong, Samuel White, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2013) — CHI '13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This paper presents the findings of a year-long large-scale study of VizWiz Social, an iPhone application that allows blind users to take a photograph, record a spoken question about it, and receive answers from crowd workers or social contacts withi…

  • blind users
  • crowdsourcing
  • mobile accessibility
  • VizWiz
  • visual question answering
  • assistive technology
  • human-powered access technology
  • information needs