Literature Reviews

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

• Parallel DOM Architecture for Accessible Interactive Simulations

  Taliesin L. Smith, Jesse Greenberg, Sam Reid, Emily B. Moore (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This paper presents the Parallel DOM (PDOM) architecture developed by the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder to make their suite of 140+ free science and mathematics simulations accessible to students with visu…

  • web accessibility
  • interactive simulations
  • screen readers
  • keyboard accessibility
  • WAI-ARIA
  • STEM accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • PhET
  • DOM
  • scene graph
  • alternative input

• For one or for all? Survey of educator perceptions of Web Speech-based auditory description in science interactives

  Brett L. Fiedler, Taliesin L. Smith, Jesse Greenberg, Emily B. Moore (2022) — Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper investigates how educators perceive a Web Speech API-based auditory description feature called Voicing, implemented in two PhET Interactive Simulations (John Travoltage and Gravity Force Lab: Basics) used globally for science education. Un…

  • auditory description
  • web speech
  • science education
  • interactive simulations
  • universal design
  • educator perceptions
  • surveys