Literature Reviews

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

• Application for the configuration and adaptation of the Android operating system for the visually impaired

  Bruna de Oliveira, Juliana Cristina Braga, Rafael J. Pezzuto Damaceno (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This short paper presents the design and preliminary evaluation of an Android application that allows people with visual impairments (PVI) to configure their device’s accessibility settings using voice commands, bypassing the paradoxical problem that…

  • Android
  • visual impairment
  • blind
  • low vision
  • TalkBack
  • voice commands
  • mobile accessibility
  • accessibility settings
  • screen reader
  • Brazil

• GestureVoice: Enabling Multimodal Text Editing for Blind Users Using Gestures and Voice

  Prerna Khanna, Sai Pravallika Reddy, IV Ramakrishnan, Xiaojun Bi, Aruna Balasubramanian (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper introduces GestureVoice, a multimodal text editing system that enables blind smartphone users to edit text using mid-air hand gestures detected by a smartwatch combined with voice commands, eliminating the need for touchscreen interaction.…

  • text editing
  • blind users
  • multimodal interaction
  • gesture recognition
  • voice commands
  • smartwatch
  • wearable technology
  • screen readers
  • mobile accessibility
  • eyes-free interaction