Literature Reviews

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

• Audio Access to Calendars

  Andy Brown, Caroline Jay, Simon Harper (2010) — Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper addresses a specific but widespread accessibility problem: pop-up calendar date pickers on the web are effectively unusable by people with visual impairments. These JavaScript widgets dynamically insert tabular calendar content into the pa…

  • visual impairment
  • screen readers
  • dynamic content
  • Web 2.0
  • date picker
  • audio interface
  • eye tracking
  • AJAX
  • user study
  • widget accessibility
  • non-visual interaction

• Look Ma, No ARIA: Generic Accessible Interfaces for Web Widgets

  Valentyn Melnyk, Vikas Ashok, Yury Puzis, Yevgen Borodin, Andrii Soviak, I. V. Ramakrishnan (2015) — Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper proposes an alternative approach to web widget accessibility that bypasses ARIA entirely. Rather than relying on web developers to correctly implement ARIA markup — which is often missing, incorrect, or inconsistent — the system automatica…

  • widget accessibility
  • screen readers
  • WAI-ARIA
  • machine learning
  • web chat
  • blind users
  • dynamic content
  • widget recognition