Literature Reviews

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

• Towards Making Mathematics a First Class Citizen in General Screen Readers

  Volker Sorge, Charles Chen, T. V. Raman, David Tseng (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a comprehensive approach to integrating mathematical speech translation into ChromeVox, Google's open-source screen reader for the Chrome browser and Chrome OS. The authors address the fundamental challenge that mathematical notat…

  • screen readers
  • mathematics accessibility
  • MathML
  • ChromeVox
  • text-to-speech
  • STEM accessibility
  • semantic enrichment
  • interactive exploration
  • speech rules

• Adaptable Accessibility Features for Mathematics on the Web

  Davide Cervone, Volker Sorge (2019) — Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents the accessibility features in MathJax version 3, the widely-used JavaScript library for rendering mathematics on the web. The fundamental challenge is that standard mathematical markup formats (LaTeX, ASCIIMath, presentation MathM…

  • mathematics accessibility
  • MathJax
  • STEM accessibility
  • screen reader
  • Braille
  • speech output
  • dyslexia
  • low vision
  • personalization
  • web accessibility
  • MathML
  • semantic enrichment