A large-scale mixed-methods analysis of blind and low-vision research in ACM and IEEE

YJ Thoo, M Jeanneret Medina, JE Froehlich… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Technologies for blind and low-vision (BLV) people have long been a focus of Human-
Computer Interaction (HCI) and accessibility (ASSETS) research. To map and assess this …

Anticipate and adjust: Cultivating access in human-centered methods

K Mack, E McDonnell, V Potluri, M Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Methods are fundamental to doing research and can directly impact who is included in
scientific advances. Given accessibility research's increasing popularity and pervasive …

" I Want to Figure Things Out": Supporting Exploration in Navigation for People with Visual Impairments

G Jain, Y Teng, DH Cho, Y Xing, M Aziz… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Navigation assistance systems (NASs) aim to help visually impaired people (VIPs) navigate
unfamiliar environments. Most of today's NASs support VIPs via turn-by-turn navigation, but …

Diffscriber: Describing Visual Design Changes to Support Mixed-Ability Collaborative Presentation Authoring

YH Peng, J Wu, J Bigham, A Pavel - Proceedings of the 35th Annual …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Visual slide-based presentations are ubiquitous, yet slide authoring tools are largely
inaccessible to people who are blind or visually impaired (BVI). When authoring …

How open is the maker movement? Integrative literature review of the openness practices in the global maker movement

H Saari, M Åkerman, B Kieslinger, J Myllyoja, R Sipos - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
This article explores the multiple meanings of the concept of openness in the global maker
movement. Openness is viewed as one of the key principles of the maker movement. As the …

Tangiblegrid: Tangible web layout design for blind users

J Li, Z Yan, EH Jarjue, A Shetty, H Peng - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present TangibleGrid, a novel device that allows blind users to understand and design
the layout of a web page with real-time tangible feedback. We conducted semi-structured …

Making mobile augmented reality applications accessible

J Herskovitz, J Wu, S White, A Pavel, G Reyes… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Augmented Reality (AR) technology creates new immersive experiences in entertainment,
games, education, retail, and social media. AR content is often primarily visual and it is …

Animations at your fingertips: using a refreshable tactile display to convey motion graphics for people who are blind or have low vision

L Holloway, S Ananthanarayan, M Butler… - Proceedings of the 24th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
People who are blind rely on touch and hearing to understand the world around them,
however it is extremely difficult to understand movement through these modes. The advent …

Understanding audio production practices of people with vision impairments

A Saha, AM Piper - Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The advent of digital audio workstations and other digital audio tools has brought a critical
shift in the audio industry by empowering amateur and professional audio content creators …

Slide-tone and tilt-tone: 1-DOF haptic techniques for conveying shape characteristics of graphs to blind users

D Fan, AF Siu, WSA Law, RR Zhen… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We increasingly rely on up-to-date, data-driven graphs to understand our environments and
make informed decisions. However, many of the methods blind and visually impaired users …