Literature Reviews

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

• Real-Time Accessibility Dashboards for Higher Education

  Beatriz Patatas, Carlos Duarte, Leticia Seixas Pereira (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)

  Patatas, Duarte, and Seixas Pereira (University of Lisbon and University of Porto) present an open-source Moodle plugin that integrates real-time PDF accessibility evaluation into the content-upload workflow and aggregates results into an institution…

  • higher education accessibility
  • learning management system
  • Moodle
  • PDF accessibility
  • accessibility monitoring
  • accessibility dashboard
  • inclusive education
  • WCAG
  • remediation
  • organisational accessibility

• BlackBoardNV: A System for Enabling Non-Visual Access to the Blackboard Course Management System

  Vineet Enagandula, Niraj Juthani, I. V. Ramakrishnan, Devashish Rawal, Ritwick Vidyasagar (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper introduces BlackBoardNV, a system designed to make the Blackboard Learning Management System accessible to users with visual disabilities through non-visual (audio and keyboard) interaction. The core problem addressed is that screen reader…

  • screen readers
  • web accessibility
  • education
  • non-visual access
  • content analysis
  • learning management system
  • assistive technology