Literature Reviews

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

• Sasayaki: An Augmented Voice-Based Web Browsing Experience

  Shaojian Zhu, Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper introduces Sasayaki (meaning "whisper" in Japanese), an intelligent voice-based agent designed to augment voice browser navigation for users with visual impairments. The authors, from IBM Research Tokyo and UMBC, identify two key problems …

  • web accessibility
  • screen reader
  • voice browser
  • visual impairment
  • contextual support
  • intelligent agent
  • web navigation