Literature Reviews

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

• Evaluation of a Non-Visual Molecule Browser

  Andy Brown, Steve Pettifer, Robert Stevens (2003) — Proceedings of the 6th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '04)

  This paper evaluates Kekulé, software designed to allow visually impaired users to explore chemical molecular structures — diagrams that are typically presented as two-dimensional graph schematics showing atoms (nodes) connected by bonds (edges). Mol…

  • STEM accessibility
  • non-visual interaction
  • blindness and low vision
  • diagram accessibility
  • synthesized speech
  • data visualization
  • graph accessibility
  • science education
  • accessible graphics

• Reviewing Speech Input with Audio: Differences between Blind and Sighted Users

  Jonggi Hong, Christine Vaing, Hernisa Kacorri, Leah Findlater (2020) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper investigates how blind users identify automatic speech recognition (ASR) errors when reviewing dictated text through audio only—a critical yet understudied aspect of speech-based text entry. While speech input is a primary interaction meth…

  • speech recognition
  • ASR errors
  • screen readers
  • text entry
  • blind users
  • synthesized speech
  • dictation
  • audio interface