Literature Reviews

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

• Barrier pointing: using physical edges to assist target acquisition on mobile device touch screens

  Jon Froehlich, Jacob O. Wobbrock, Shaun K. Kane (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

  Froehlich, Wobbrock and Kane propose barrier pointing: a set of stylus-based target acquisition techniques that exploit the raised physical edge of a mobile touch screen to stabilise input for users with motor impairments. Standard touch-screen tappi…

  • mobile accessibility
  • touchscreen accessibility
  • motor impairment
  • target acquisition
  • input techniques
  • assistive technology
  • Fitts' Law
  • passive haptic feedback
  • accessible interaction
  • user study