Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged optical character recognition.
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I-VAMOS: Independent Voting with Accessible Multimodal Offline System for Visually Impaired Users
This paper introduces I-VAMOS, an offline multimodal voting assistance system designed to enable blind and low-vision (BLV) voters to cast paper ballots independently and secretly. The authors situate their work in the constitutional right to a secre…
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Text Locating in Scene Images for Reading and Navigation Aids for Visually Impaired Persons
This paper presents a computer vision algorithm for locating text in natural scene images — a key capability needed for camera-based reading assistants and navigation aids for people who are blind or visually impaired. While existing reading assistan…
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WebInSight: Making Web Images Accessible
This paper introduces WebInSight, a system that automatically generates and inserts alternative text for web images that lack it. The authors first establish the scale of the problem through a series of web studies examining five groups of important …
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Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Make Twitter Images Accessible
This paper presents Twitter A11y, a browser extension designed to address the widespread lack of alternative text on images posted to Twitter. The authors note that while around 12% of Twitter content consists of images, only 0.1% of those images inc…
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Beyond Sight: Empowering Visually Impaired Users with Audible Graphs
This technical note presents a tool designed to make data visualizations accessible to people with visual impairments by converting them into audible and textual representations. The tool addresses a significant gap: while data visualization is centr…