Literature Reviews

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

• Slidecho: Flexible Non-Visual Exploration of Presentation Videos

  Yi-Hao Peng, Jeffrey P Bigham, Amy Pavel (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21)

  This paper presents Slidecho, a system that makes recorded presentation videos accessible to blind and visually impaired learners by automatically extracting slide content and synchronizing it with the presenter's speech. The core problem is that mos…

  • video accessibility
  • blind and low vision
  • audio description
  • presentations
  • screen reader
  • OCR
  • computer vision
  • educational technology
  • multimedia accessibility

• Improving the Accessibility of Screen-Shared Presentations by Enabling Concurrent Exploration

  Danyang Fan, Sasa Junuzovic, John Tang, Thomas Jaeger (2023) — Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper addresses a fundamental gap in remote meeting accessibility: when presenters screen-share slides during video calls, blind and low vision (BLV) screen reader users have no adequate way to independently explore slide content in real-time. W…

  • screen reader
  • blindness
  • presentations
  • screen sharing
  • spatial audio
  • cognitive load
  • videoconferencing
  • concurrent exploration
  • Microsoft Teams