Literature Reviews

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

• Multimodal User Input Patterns in a Non-Visual Context

  Xiaoyu Chen, Marilyn Tremaine (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This exploratory study from the New Jersey Institute of Technology investigates how users choose between speech and hand (touchpad) inputs when performing tasks in a non-visual interface. The research used AudioBrowser, a system that organizes inform…

  • multimodal interaction
  • non-visual interaction
  • speech input
  • touchpad
  • visual impairment
  • dialogue design
  • input modalities
  • human-computer interaction

• Making VRML Accessible for People with Disabilities

  Sandy Ressler, Qiming Wang (1998) — Proceedings of the Third International ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '98)

  This paper from researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) presents a taxonomy of techniques for making Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) environments accessible to people with disabilities. Written at a time when…

  • virtual reality
  • VRML
  • virtual environments
  • audio feedback
  • spatialized audio
  • keyboard navigation
  • speech input
  • navigational aids
  • text descriptions

• Exploring the Use of Speech Input by Blind People on Mobile Devices

  Shiri Azenkot, Nicole B. Lee (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper investigates how blind people use speech input on mobile devices through two studies: a survey of 169 participants (64 blind/low-vision, 105 sighted) and a laboratory study with 8 blind participants composing paragraphs on an iPod Touch us…

  • visual impairment
  • blindness
  • speech input
  • speech recognition
  • mobile accessibility
  • text entry
  • VoiceOver
  • dictation
  • eyes-free interaction

• From User Perceptions to Technical Improvement: Enabling People Who Stutter to Better Use Speech Recognition

  Colin Lea, Zifang Huang, Jaya Narain, Lauren Tooley, Dianna Yee, Dung Tien Tran, Panayiotis Georgiou, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Leah Findlater (2023) — Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)

  This paper investigates how people who stutter (PWS) experience consumer speech recognition systems and demonstrates technical improvements that can significantly reduce errors. The work combines user research with engineering interventions across th…

  • stuttering
  • speech recognition
  • voice assistants
  • dictation
  • speech accessibility
  • dysfluency
  • automatic speech recognition
  • speech input

• Investigating Microinteractions for People with Visual Impairments and the Potential Role of On-Body Interaction

  Uran Oh, Lee Stearns, Alisha Pradhan, Jon E. Froehlich, Leah Findlater (2017) — Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

  This paper investigates how well microinteractions — brief, high-frequency mobile tasks that take sighted users only a few seconds to complete — are currently supported for people who are blind or visually impaired (VI). While modern smartphones are …

  • microinteraction
  • on-body interaction
  • visual impairment
  • wearable technology
  • mobile accessibility
  • screen readers
  • gesture interaction
  • speech input