Literature Reviews

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

• Getting Smartphones to Talkback: Understanding the Smartphone Adoption Process of Blind Users

  André Rodrigues, Kyle Montague, Hugo Nicolau, Tiago Guerreiro (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper presents an eight-week longitudinal study investigating how novice blind users adopt touchscreen smartphones, transitioning from traditional feature phones. The researchers recruited five legally blind participants (ages 23-55) who had nev…

  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • mobile accessibility
  • TalkBack
  • smartphone adoption
  • touchscreen
  • longitudinal study
  • Android