Literature Reviews

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

• Audio Enriched Links: Web Page Previews for Blind Users

  Peter Parente (2004) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets 04)

  This paper presents Audio Enriched Links (AEL), a JAWS screen reader extension for Internet Explorer that provides spoken previews of linked web pages before blind users follow a hyperlink. The system addresses a fundamental asymmetry in web browsing…

  • web accessibility
  • visual impairment
  • screen reader
  • web navigation
  • link preview
  • JAWS
  • speech
  • information retrieval
  • web browsing

• Tag Thunder: Towards Non-Visual Web Page Skimming

  Elena Manishina, Jean-Marc Lecarpentier, Fabrice Maurel, Stéphane Ferrari, Maxence Busson (2016) — Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '16)

  This demonstration paper presents Tag Thunder, an audio equivalent of visual tag clouds designed to bring skimming capabilities to blind web users. When sighted people access a web page, they first skim the content — rapidly scanning layout, typograp…

  • blindness
  • screen reader
  • web accessibility
  • speech
  • natural language processing
  • sonification
  • auditory interface
  • content accessibility