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Web Accessibility for disabled people has posed a challenge to the civilized societies that claim to uphold the principles of equal opportunity and nondiscrimination. Certain concrete measures have been taken to narrow down the digital…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2011-12-30 Jameel A. Qadri , M. Tariq Banday

This paper provides a comprehensive and, to our knowledge, the first review of inclusive human-computer interaction (HCI) within autonomous vehicles (AVs) and human-driven cars with partial autonomy, emphasizing accessibility and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Ashish Bastola , Hao Wang , Sayed Pedram Haeri Boroujeni , Julian Brinkley , Ata Jahangir Moshayedi , Abolfazl Razi

The proliferation of digital mental health (DMH) tracking services promises personalized support, yet accessibility barriers limit equal access. This study investigates blind community experiences with DMH tracking services across the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Omar Khan , JooYoung Seo

In today's technology-driven world, web services have opened up new opportunities for blind and visually impaired people to interact independently. Securing interactions with these services is crucial; however, currently deployed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Md Mojibur Rahman Redoy Akanda , Ahmed Tanvir Mahdad , Nitesh Saxena

The rapid emergence of generative AI has changed the way that technology is designed, constructed, maintained, and evaluated. Decisions made when creating AI-powered systems may impact some users disproportionately, such as people with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Sanika Moharana , Cynthia L. Bennett , Erin Buehler , Michael Madaio , Vinita Tibdewal , Shaun K. Kane

People with visual impairments perceive their environment non-visually and often use AI-powered assistive tools to obtain textual descriptions of visual information. Recent large vision-language model-based AI-powered tools like Be My AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Jingyi Xie , Rui Yu , He Zhang , Sooyeon Lee , Syed Masum Billah , John M. Carroll

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 challenging to enable access to it non-visually due to the mix…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Jaylin Herskovitz , Jason Wu , Samuel White , Amy Pavel , Gabriel Reyes , Anhong Guo , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Current web accessibility guidelines ask visualization designers to support screen readers via basic non-visual alternatives like textual descriptions and access to raw data tables. But charts do more than summarize data or reproduce…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Jonathan Zong , Crystal Lee , Alan Lundgard , JiWoong Jang , Daniel Hajas , Arvind Satyanarayan

Iteration of training and evaluating a machine learning model is an important process to improve its performance. However, while teachable interfaces enable blind users to train and test an object recognizer with photos taken in their…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Jonggi Hong , Jaina Gandhi , Ernest Essuah Mensah , Farnaz Zamiri Zeraati , Ebrima Haddy Jarjue , Kyungjun Lee , Hernisa Kacorri

Automated vehicles present unique opportunities and challenges, with progress and adoption limited, in part, by policy and regulatory barriers. Underrepresented groups, including individuals with mobility impairments, sensory disabilities,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Savvy Barnes , Maricarmen Davis , Josh Siegel

This study investigates the accessibility of open-source electronic health record (EHR) systems for individuals who are visually impaired or blind. Ensuring the accessibility of EHRs to visually impaired users is critical for the diversity,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Megha M. Moncy , Manya Pilli , Manasi Somasundaram , Saptarshi Purkayastha , Cathy R. Fulton

People now frequently meet and develop relationships through online dating. Yet, due to their limited accessibility, utilizing dating services can be difficult and irritating for people with visual impairments. The significance of the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Gyanendra Shrestha , Soumya Tejaswi Vadlamani

The growing interest in accessible software reflects in computing educators' and education researchers' efforts to include accessibility in core computing education. We integrated accessibility in a junior/senior-level Android app…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jaskaran Singh Bhatia , Parthasarathy P D , Snigdha Tiwari , Dhruv Nagpal , Swaroop Joshi

Physical disabled access is something that most museums consider very seriously. Indeed, there are normally legal requirements to do so. However, online disabled access is still a relatively novel field. Most museums have not yet considered…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jonathan P. Bowen

Web-based data visualizations have become very popular for exploring data and communicating insights. Newspapers, journals, and reports regularly publish visualizations to tell compelling stories with data. Unfortunately, most…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Md Zubair Ibne Alam , Shehnaz Islam , Enamul Hoque

The Global South faces unique challenges in achieving digital inclusion due to a heavy reliance on mobile devices for internet access and the prevalence of slow or unreliable networks. While numerous studies have investigated web…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Masudul Hasan Masud Bhuiyan , Matteo Varvello , Cristian-Alexandru Staicu , Yasir Zaki

Authentication is the cornerstone of information security in our daily lives. However, disabled users such as Blind and Low-Vision (BLV) ones are left behind in digital services due to the lack of accessibility. According to the World…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Clara Toussaint , Benjamin Chateau , Pierre-Guillaume Gourio-Jewell , Emilie Bonnefoy , Nicolas Louveton

Accessibility--the process of designing for people with disabilities (PWD)--is an important but under-explored challenge in the visualization research community. Without careful attention, and if PWD are not included as equal participants…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Alan Lundgard , Crystal Lee , Arvind Satyanarayan

Course syllabi are often the first and sometimes only structured artifact that explains how a class will run: deadlines, grading rules, safety procedures, and how to request disability accommodations. For blind and low-vision (BLV) students…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Chadani Acharya

Object recognition technologies hold the potential to support blind and low-vision people in navigating the world around them. However, the gap between benchmark performances and practical usability remains a significant challenge. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jonggi Hong , Hernisa Kacorri