Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
5 results found tagged speech output.
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Exploring Interface Design for Independent Navigation by People with Visual Impairments
This short poster paper from ASSETS 2015 explores how people with visual impairments respond to different navigation interface designs during in situ walking tasks. The authors observe that prior research has been limited in two ways: user studies of…
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Older Adults' Evaluations of Speech Output
This paper investigates older adults' subjective evaluations of different speech output voices in the context of an Intelligent Home System (IHS) designed to help older people live independently. Given that 66% of people with visual impairments in th…
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Adaptation of a Cash Dispenser to the Needs of Blind and Visually Impaired People
This paper from ETH Zurich describes the software adaptation of an Olivetti cash dispenser (ATM) to make it accessible to blind and visually impaired people, conducted as part of Switzerland's Walk-up-and-use Technology initiative. The key constraint…
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Emacspeak — Direct Speech Access
This paper by T. V. Raman (then at Adobe Systems, developed while at Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Lab) presents Emacspeak, a speech output subsystem for Emacs that provides what the author terms "direct speech access" to UNIX wo…
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Adaptable Accessibility Features for Mathematics on the Web
This paper presents the accessibility features in MathJax version 3, the widely-used JavaScript library for rendering mathematics on the web. The fundamental challenge is that standard mathematical markup formats (LaTeX, ASCIIMath, presentation MathM…