Literature Reviews

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

3 results found tagged reverse engineering.

StateLens: A Reverse Engineering Solution for Making Existing Dynamic Touchscreens Accessible

Anhong Guo, Junhan Kong, Michael Rivera, Frank F. Xu, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2019) — ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

This paper presents StateLens, a three-part system that makes existing dynamic touchscreen interfaces accessible to blind users without requiring any modification to the touchscreen hardware or software. Blind people routinely encounter inaccessible …
Screen Parsing: Towards Reverse Engineering of UI Models from Screenshots

Jason Wu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Jeff Nichols, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2021) — The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)

This paper introduces screen parsing, the task of predicting UI elements and their hierarchical relationships from a screenshot alone. While prior work could detect individual UI elements on a screen (element detection), those approaches produced fla…
Transforming Web Pages to Become Standard-Compliant through Reverse Engineering

Benfeng Chen, Vincent Y. Shen (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

This paper addresses the problem of transforming legacy, non-standards-compliant web pages into valid HTML with proper separation of content and presentation — a fundamental requirement for web accessibility. In 2006, over 95% of web pages failed W3C…