Literature Reviews

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

• A Platform Agnostic Remote Desktop System for Screen Reading

  Syed Masum Billah, Vikas Ashok, Donald E. Porter, IV Ramakrishnan (2016) — ASSETS '16: Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  Sinter addresses a fundamental barrier to remote desktop accessibility: traditional remote desktop technology scrapes pixels from the remote screen and redraws them as bitmaps on the client, losing all semantic information that screen readers require…

  • screen reader
  • remote desktop
  • cross-platform accessibility
  • UI virtualization
  • blind accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • NVDA
  • JAWS
  • VoiceOver

• How Cloud Computing Can Support On-Demand Assistive Services

  Davide Mulfari, Antonio Celesti, Antonio Puliafito, Massimo Villari (2013) — Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper from the University of Messina investigates how cloud computing and virtualisation can provide on-demand assistive technology services for people with disabilities who need to use shared or public computers. The core problem is that when a…

  • cloud computing
  • assistive technology
  • virtual desktop
  • screen reader
  • screen magnifier
  • motor accessibility
  • HTML5
  • remote desktop