Literature Reviews

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

• Scopist: Building a Skill Ladder into Crowd Transcription

  Jeffrey P. Bigham, Kristin Williams, Nila Banerjee, John Zimmerman (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper introduces Scopist, a JavaScript application designed to teach crowd workers stenotype — a chording-based text entry method used by professional real-time captioners — while they perform audio transcription microtasks. The research address…

  • crowdsourcing
  • captioning
  • stenography
  • deaf accessibility
  • transcription
  • skill development
  • text entry
  • real-time captioning

• "It's an independent living skill, but covered with fun!": Prompting At-Home Skill Development for Children with Vision Impairment

  Vinitha Gadiraju, Lucia Jayne, Shaun K. Kane (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This study investigates how to design tools that support independent living skill development for blind or visually impaired (BVI) children within their home environments. The research involved five families with BVI children in grades 4-6, using a t…

  • visual impairment
  • children
  • independent living skills
  • expanded core curriculum
  • parent-teacher collaboration
  • activity prompting
  • skill development
  • family