Literature Reviews

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

• Making VRML Accessible for People with Disabilities

  Sandy Ressler, Qiming Wang (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper from researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presents a taxonomy of techniques for making Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) environments accessible to people with disabilities. Written at a time when…

  • virtual reality
  • VRML
  • virtual environments
  • audio feedback
  • spatialized audio
  • keyboard navigation
  • speech input
  • navigational aids
  • text descriptions