Literature Reviews

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

• Solo: Interactive Task Guidance

  Edmund LoPresti, Ned Kirsch, Richard Simpson, Debra Schreckenghost (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper describes Solo, a cognitive orthosis being developed by AT Sciences, the University of Michigan, the University of Pittsburgh, and TRACLabs to help cognitively impaired clients and their caregivers manage daily activities. Solo builds on t…

  • cognitive assistive technology
  • traumatic brain injury
  • cognitive disability
  • task guidance
  • scheduling
  • independent living
  • telerehabilitation
  • cognitive prosthetic

• Trailblazer: Enabling Blind Users to Blaze Trails Through the Web

  Jeffrey P. Bigham, Tessa Lau, Jeffrey Nichols (2009) — IUI '09: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

  This paper introduces TrailBlazer, a system designed to help blind web users complete tasks more efficiently by providing step-by-step guidance through web pages. The core problem it addresses is that blind users relying on screen readers must often …

  • screen readers
  • blind users
  • web accessibility
  • non-visual interfaces
  • programming by demonstration
  • task guidance
  • intelligent user interfaces