Literature Reviews

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

• Thematic Organization of Web Content for Distraction-Free Text-to-Speech Narration

  Muhammad Asiful Islam, Faisal Ahmed, Yevgen Borodin, I.V. Ramakrishnan (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper addresses a fundamental problem in how blind users experience web content through screen readers: the serial, linear narration of complex web pages that contain multiple thematic elements — news stories, ads, navigation taxonomies, and opi…

  • screen readers
  • web segmentation
  • text-to-speech
  • blind users
  • cognitive load
  • web accessibility
  • clustering
  • information retrieval
  • content organization

• Feel-It: Personalized Audio-Tactile Web Browsing

  Anatoliy Borodin, Yevgen Borodin, Andrii Soviak, Vikas Ashok, Shirin Disfani, I. V. Ramakrishnan (2019) — Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This demonstration paper presents Feel-It, a hardware-software system for audio-tactile web browsing that enables blind users to explore the two-dimensional spatial layout of web pages through touch. The core problem addressed is that screen readers …

  • blindness
  • haptic feedback
  • tactile display
  • web browsing
  • screen reader
  • assistive technology
  • personalization
  • computer vision
  • Braille
  • web segmentation