Literature Reviews

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

• Input Accessibility: A Large Dataset and Summary Analysis of Age, Motor Ability and Input Performance

  Leah Findlater, Lotus Zhang (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This University of Washington study makes two key contributions to understanding how age and motor ability affect computer input performance: a large open dataset of mouse and touchscreen input traces from over 700 participants, and a summary analysi…

  • motor impairment
  • mouse input
  • touchscreen
  • older adults
  • physical accessibility
  • Fitts law
  • input performance
  • dataset
  • ageing

• Investigating Laboratory and Everyday Typing Performance of Blind Users

  Hugo Nicolau, Kyle Montague, Tiago Guerreiro, André Rodrigues, Vicki L. Hanson (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper presents the first longitudinal study comparing blind users' touchscreen typing performance in laboratory versus everyday real-world settings. Over 12 weeks, five novice blind smartphone users participated in eight weekly laboratory sessi…

  • visual impairment
  • text entry
  • touchscreen
  • mobile accessibility
  • longitudinal study
  • in-the-wild
  • VoiceOver
  • input performance