Literature Reviews

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

• Beyond Descriptions: A Generative Scene2Audio Framework for Blind and Low-Vision Users to Experience Vista Landscapes

  Chitralekha Gupta, Jing Peng, Ashwin Ram, Shreyas Sridhar, Christophe Jouffrais, Suranga Nanayakkara (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Scene description apps (Seeing AI, Be My AI, Envision) do a reasonable job of telling blind and low-vision (BLV) users what is in front of them, but they are built for utility - 'there is a chair'. They fail at the aesthetic, leisure, emotional exper…

  • blind and low vision
  • sonification
  • spatial audio
  • generative AI
  • psychoacoustics
  • scene description
  • image description
  • mobile accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • aesthetic experience