Literature Reviews

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

• Privacy Concerns for Visual Assistance Technologies

  Abigale Stangl, Kristina Shiroma, Nathan Davis, Bo Xie, Kenneth R. Fleischmann, Leah Findlater, Danna Gurari (2022) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This comprehensive study examines privacy concerns of blind users when sharing images and videos with visual assistance technologies (VATs) like Aira, Be My Eyes, and Seeing AI. The research addresses a fundamental tension: blind people must share vi…

  • visual impairment
  • privacy
  • visual assistance technology
  • artificial intelligence
  • remote sighted assistance
  • image description
  • privacy policy
  • data protection

• EnTable: Rewriting Web Data Sets as Accessible Tables

  Steven Gardiner, Anthony Tomasic, John Zimmerman (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This demonstration paper presents EnTable, a crowdsourcing system that transforms visually complex web data presentations into accessible HTML tables. The problem it addresses is fundamental: modern web designers communicate semantic information thro…

  • web accessibility
  • crowdsourcing
  • screen readers
  • data tables
  • transcoding
  • HTML tables
  • browser extension
  • remote sighted assistance