Literature Reviews

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

• Towards Making Mathematics a First Class Citizen in General Screen Readers

  Volker Sorge, Charles Chen, T. V. Raman, David Tseng (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a comprehensive approach to integrating mathematical speech translation into ChromeVox, Google's open-source screen reader for the Chrome browser and Chrome OS. The authors address the fundamental challenge that mathematical notat…

  • screen readers
  • mathematics accessibility
  • MathML
  • ChromeVox
  • text-to-speech
  • STEM accessibility
  • semantic enrichment
  • interactive exploration
  • speech rules

• Producing Accessible Statistics Diagrams in R

  Donal Fitzpatrick, A. Jonathan R. Godfrey, Volker Sorge (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a system for making statistical diagrams accessible to blind users by generating semantically enriched SVG graphics from the R statistical computing environment. The core problem is that statistical graphics — bar charts, histogra…

  • data visualization accessibility
  • STEM accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • SVG
  • statistics
  • R programming
  • accessible diagrams
  • hierarchical navigation
  • BrailleR
  • interactive exploration
  • education accessibility
  • charts
  • graphs