Literature Reviews

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

• SmartColor: Disambiguation Framework for the Colorblind

  Ken Wakita, Kenta Shimamura (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper presents SmartColor, a framework that automatically repaints coloured documents so that people with colour vision deficiencies can perceive the same colour effects — such as contrast, shared colour grouping, and distinguishability — that t…

  • color blindness
  • color accessibility
  • color contrast
  • data visualization
  • constraint systems
  • recoloring
  • visual accessibility

• Improving Calibration Time and Accuracy for Situation-Specific Models of Color Differentiation

  David R. Flatla, Carl Gutwin (2011) — The Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This paper presents ICD-2, a significantly improved situation-specific model of human color differentiation designed to make personalised color accessibility tools practical for real-world use. Color vision deficiencies (CVDs) affect people's ability…

  • color vision deficiency
  • color blindness
  • color accessibility
  • calibration
  • color differentiation
  • recoloring
  • personalization
  • visual accessibility

• Situation-Specific Models of Color Differentiation

  David R. Flatla, Carl Gutwin (2012) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper introduces Situation-Specific Modeling (SSM), a fundamentally different approach to helping users with color vision deficiency (CVD) differentiate colors in digital interfaces. Traditional recoloring tools rely on theoretical models of dic…

  • color vision deficiency
  • color blindness
  • recoloring
  • visualization
  • personalization
  • low vision
  • assistive technology