Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
9 results found tagged user-centred design.
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VoiceDraw: a hands-free voice-driven drawing application for people with motor impairments
Harada, Wobbrock, and Landay's Assets '07 paper introduces VoiceDraw, a hands-free digital painting application for people with severe motor impairments that uses *non-speech* vocalisations — continuously-held vowel sounds and short consonant clicks …
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Where's My Stuff? Design and Evaluation of a Mobile System for Locating Lost Items for the Visually Impaired
This paper presents FETCH (Finding Everything using Technology that is Convenient and Handy), a mobile system that helps visually impaired people locate lost items around their home using Bluetooth-enabled tags and existing devices like cell phones o…
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Ongoing Investigation of the Ways in Which Some of the Problems Encountered by Some Dyslexics Can Be Alleviated Using Computer Techniques
This paper from the University of Dundee reports on the ongoing development and evaluation of SeeWord, a highly configurable word processing environment designed to alleviate visual difficulties experienced by dyslexic computer users. The authors ado…
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An Empirical Investigation of Ways in Which Some of the Problems Encountered by Some Dyslexics May Be Alleviated Using Computer Techniques
This paper describes the development and user evaluation of a highly configurable word processing environment designed to help dyslexic users read and produce text more effectively. The researchers at the University of Dundee identified nine common p…
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Auditory Navigation in Hyperspace: Design and Evaluation of a Non-Visual Hypermedia System for Blind Users
This paper from the University of Hertfordshire's Sensory Disabilities Research Unit presents the design and rigorous evaluation of DAHNI (Demonstrator of the ACCESS media Non-Visual Interface), a hypermedia system built specifically for blind users …
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Developing for Autism with User-Centred Design
This short paper describes the development of software designed to help children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) explore social situations, specifically the concept of sharing. The author identifies a gap in the use of User-Centred Design (UCD) …
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AudioDraw: User Preferences in Non-Visual Diagram Drawing for Touchscreens
This paper investigates how people who are blind can independently create visual diagrams on touchscreen tablets, addressing a significant gap in accessibility. Diagram-building features in productivity tools like MS Word, PowerPoint, and UML editors…
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Able to Read My Mail: An Accessible e-Mail Client with Assistive Technology
This paper presents Kolumba, an accessible web-based email client developed as part of the EU-funded Able to Include project, specifically designed for people with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD). The tool addresses a critical gap in…
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A multi-method evaluation of university website accessibility: Foregrounding user-centred design, mining source code and using a quantitative metric
This extended abstract presents a multi-method model for evaluating the accessibility of university websites, with particular attention to the needs of students with sensory disabilities including deaf, visually impaired, and deafblind users. The res…