Literature Reviews

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

• A comparison of area pointing and goal crossing for people with and without motor impairments

  Jacob O. Wobbrock, Krzysztof Z. Gajos (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '07)

  Wobbrock and Gajos at the University of Washington present a controlled study comparing two fundamentally different target-acquisition paradigms — conventional area pointing (move into a confined region and click) and goal crossing (sweep the cursor …

  • target acquisition
  • goal crossing
  • area pointing
  • Fitts' law
  • steering law
  • throughput
  • mouse
  • trackball
  • motor accessibility
  • motor impairment
  • cerebral palsy
  • spinal cord injury
  • Parkinson's disease
  • peripheral neuropathy
  • input methods
  • pointing device
  • cursor
  • accessible interfaces

• From Letters to Words: Efficient Stroke-based Word Completion for Trackball Text Entry

  Jacob O. Wobbrock, Brad A. Myers (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper presents a significant extension to Trackball EdgeWrite, a unistroke text entry method designed for people who use trackballs as their primary pointing device. The original Trackball EdgeWrite allowed users to enter text one character at a…

  • text entry
  • trackball
  • motor impairment
  • word prediction
  • word completion
  • assistive technology
  • spinal cord injury
  • alternative input