Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged screen reader accessibility.
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HTML5 accessible video player: how and why
This paper from the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) describes the development of a free, open source HTML5 video player designed to address the widespread accessibility barriers in online video playback interfaces. The authors identify four k…
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Computer vision-based analysis of web page structure for assistive interfaces
This doctoral consortium paper proposes a novel approach to understanding web page structure by analyzing rendered page images using computer vision, rather than relying on the DOM tree or source code as most existing web page segmentation methods do…
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Lake Devo: accessible online role-play
This extended abstract describes Lake Devo, a web-based role-playing environment developed at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) for collaborative learning, and the strategies used to make it accessible to blind students using s…
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Accessibility Challenges in Lab Simulations
This paper describes the accessibility challenges encountered and solutions developed when creating online lab simulations for an Occupational Health and Safety course at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). The COVID-19 pandemic…
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Developing and Deploying a Real-World Solution for Accessible Slide Reading and Authoring for Blind Users
This paper presents A11yBoard for Google Slides, a multi-device multimodal system that makes presentation slide reading and authoring accessible to blind users. Presentation software like PowerPoint and Google Slides relies on 2-D "artboard" canvases…