Literature Reviews

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

• TDraw: A Computer-Based Tactile Drawing Tool for Blind People

  Martin Kurze (1996) — Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '96)

  This paper from Freie Universität Berlin presents TDraw, a computer-based system that enables blind people to create tactile drawings and, equally importantly, allows researchers to study how blind people draw. The paper begins with a theoretical ana…

  • blindness and low vision
  • tactile graphics
  • tactile drawing
  • mental model
  • spatial cognition
  • tactile rendering
  • swell paper
  • accessible graphics