Literature Reviews

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

• Haptic Gloves Prototype for Audio-Tactile Web Browsing

  Andrii Soviak (2015) — ASSETS '15: Proceedings of the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility

  This paper presents preliminary work on FeelX, a haptic gloves system designed to enable blind users to explore web page layouts through touch. The research addresses a fundamental limitation of screen readers: they present web content serially, crea…

  • blindness
  • haptic interface
  • web accessibility
  • screen reader
  • tactile display
  • wearable
  • Braille
  • spatial layout
  • assistive technology

• Find and Seek: Assessing the Impact of Table Navigation on Information Look-up with a Screen Reader

  Kristin Williams, Taylor Clarke, Steve Gardiner, John Zimmerman, Anthony Tomasic (2019) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS)

  This paper challenges the widely held assumption that HTML tables are inherently inaccessible to screen reader users. Web designers use visual cues like layout, typography, and spatial grouping to help sighted users navigate and understand page conte…

  • screen readers
  • web accessibility
  • table navigation
  • spatial layout
  • cognitive load
  • information architecture
  • transcoding