Literature Reviews

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

• Text Locating in Scene Images for Reading and Navigation Aids for Visually Impaired Persons

  Chucai Yi (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This paper presents a computer vision algorithm for locating text in natural scene images — a key capability needed for camera-based reading assistants and navigation aids for people who are blind or visually impaired. While existing reading assistan…

  • computer vision
  • text recognition
  • blindness
  • navigation
  • reading assistant
  • scene text
  • optical character recognition
  • assistive technology

• Improving the Accessibility of Mobile OCR Apps Via Interactive Modalities

  Michael Cutter, Roberto Manduchi (2017) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper addresses a critical usability challenge in mobile OCR for blind users: while OCR technology itself works well, it requires properly framed images at adequate resolution—something difficult to achieve without visual feedback. Blind users c…

  • OCR
  • mobile accessibility
  • blindness
  • camera guidance
  • computer vision
  • text recognition