Literature Reviews

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

• The Personal Portable Profile Project

  Blaise W. Liffick, Gary Zoppetti, Shane Shearer (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents the Personal Portable Profile (P3) system, a hardware and software solution designed to let users with disabilities carry their computer accessibility settings between machines. The core problem addressed is that operating system …

  • assistive technology
  • user profile
  • personalization
  • portable accessibility
  • operating system settings
  • USB device

• WebAnywhere: A Screen Reading Interface for the Web on Any Computer

  Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig M. Prince, Sangyun Hahn, Richard E. Ladner (2008) — Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This short paper introduces WebAnywhere, a free web-based screen reader from the University of Washington that enables blind users to access the web from any computer with a standard browser and sound capability, without installing any software. The …

  • screen readers
  • blindness
  • web-based assistive technology
  • text-to-speech
  • digital equity
  • cloud computing
  • JavaScript
  • proxy server
  • portable accessibility