Literature Reviews

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

• An experimental sound-based hierarchical menu navigation system for visually handicapped use of graphical user interfaces

  Arthur I. Karshmer, P. Brawner, G. Reiswig (1994) — Proceedings of the First Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '94)

  This paper addresses the accessibility crisis created by the shift from character-based computer interfaces to graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in the early 1990s. The authors note that earlier text-based systems were well-served by assistive technol…

  • GUI accessibility
  • sonification
  • auditory interface
  • blind and low vision
  • menu navigation
  • screen readers
  • earcons