Literature Reviews

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

• IMAGE: An Open-Source, Extensible Framework for Deploying Accessible Audio and Haptic Renderings of Web Graphics

  Juliette Regimbal, Jeffrey R. Blum, Cyan Kuo, Jeremy R. Cooperstock (2024) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper introduces IMAGE (Internet Multimodal Access to Graphical Exploration), an open-source software framework designed to help accessibility practitioners create and deploy audio and haptic representations of web graphics. The authors address …

  • web graphics
  • sonification
  • haptic feedback
  • multimodal interaction
  • open source
  • microservices
  • blind
  • low vision
  • data visualization

• IMAGE: A Deployment Framework for Creating Multimodal Experiences of Web Graphics

  Juliette Regimbal, Jeffrey R. Blum, Jeremy R. Cooperstock (2022) — Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This short paper from McGill University introduces IMAGE (Internet Multimodal Access to Graphical Exploration), an open-source framework for converting web graphics into accessible multimodal outputs including audio, haptic, and text representations …

  • multimodal
  • web graphics
  • image accessibility
  • haptic feedback
  • sonification
  • open source
  • blindness and low vision
  • screen readers
  • assistive technology