Literature Reviews

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

• AudioGraf: A Diagram-Reader for the Blind

  Andrea R. Kennel (1996) — Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Conference on Assistive Technologies (Assets '96)

  This paper from ETH Zürich presents AudioGraf, a system that enables blind and visually impaired users to read diagrams through a combination of touch panel input and auditory display. The core problem addressed is that diagrams — widely used in tech…

  • blindness and low vision
  • auditory display
  • tactile graphics
  • diagram accessibility
  • non-visual access
  • touch panel
  • sonification
  • audio-tactile