Informal learning spaces (ILS) in university teaching buildings support self-directed learning, collaboration, and social interaction. However, the correspondence between configurational visual accessibility and users’ perceived accessibility r...
Digital technologies are an opportunity to overcome disabilities, provided that accessibility is ensured. In this paper, we focus on visual accessibility and the way it is supported in Operating Systems (OS). The significant variability in this suppo...
Positioned at the intersection of instructional mediation, Visual Education, and Universal Design for Learning (UDL), this research aims to ascertain whether the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enhances accessibility for students with sensory dis...
This study addresses the accessibility challenges faced by individuals with visual impairments due to limited access to graphic information, which significantly impacts their educational and social integration. Traditional methods for producing tacti...
This research offers a fresh lens on Iranian cultural heritage houses by interrogating the overlooked role of Orosi windows in shaping socio-spatial accessibility and visual permeability. While these decorative stained-glass features are traditionall...
Accessibility in web systems is essential to ensure everyone can obtain information equally. Based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAGs), the Electronic Government Accessibility Model (eMAG) was established in Brazil to guide the access...
Visual impairment (V.I.) has been associated with a negative impact on activities of daily living (ADL) and navigation outside the home. Adults from minority ethnic communities are projected to make up an increasing proportion of the V.I. population...
The current state of the labor market requires modern engineers to acquire programming skills at different levels of advancement and to apply them in multidisciplinary environments. Not all modern engineers will become fully fledged programmers, but...
Understanding visitors’ outdoor activities in urban public spaces and their relationship with the physical environment is essential for improving the precision of public space design. This study, set in the context of Yangzhou, China, focuses o...
16 February 2020
The aim of this article is to promote the use of knowledge visualization frameworks in the creation and transfer of complex public health knowledge. The accessibility to healthy food items is an example of complex public health knowledge. The United...
An equal society requires respect for differences and attention to minority groups. Web inclusivity for disabled people is closely related to how they can understand, use and utilize websites like non-disabled people. The objective of this research w...
Though consumers with vulnerabilities, such as visually impaired or blind and partially sighted people (BPSP), face several marketplace problems and challenges, existing literature provides limited guidance. The present study aims to examine the issu...
This study is to address the lack of targeted research on accessible clothing for the visually impaired. In response to this gap, we conducted a mixed-methods study involving in-depth interviews, questionnaire surveys, real-world experiments with vis...
This article explores access intimacy as feeling, interactional practice, and political vision through an inclusive research project in Hong Kong, where 12 visually impaired adults and 35 university students collaboratively developed accessible board...
In this paper, we take the position that cities gain to be represented as three-dimensional spaces populated by scores of micro-scale-built spaces (buildings, rooms, passageways, squares, etc.). Effective algorithms that evaluate place-based accessib...
Shopping malls have become vibrant public spaces, serving as commercial centers and sociocultural hubs. However, the arrangement of stationary elements such as elevators and escalators significantly impacts the visual quality of the atrium and the ov...
The Saudi government pays great attention to the usability and accessibility issues of e-government systems. E-government educational systems, such as Noor, Faris, and iEN systems, are some of the most rapidly developing e-government systems. In this...
19 April 2021
Nowadays, there is increasing attention towards the safety and feelings of children in urban or architectural space. In this study, the authors suggest a new approach based on the Visual Access and Exposure (VAE) Model to evaluate the spatial safety...
Virtual reality (VR) can support orientation in complex environments, but most VR systems remain vision-dominant and may create barriers for users with visual impairments. This study developed and formatively evaluated a Generative AI-augmented acces...
Recently, attribute-based access control (ABAC) has received increasingly more attention and has emerged as the desired access control mechanism for many organizations because of its flexibility and scalability for authorization management, as well a...
In response to increasing numbers of people switching from offline to online shopping after the COVID-19 pandemic, this study sought to obtain an in-depth understanding of apparel website design and digital accessibility for all people, including peo...
Waterfalls are common natural heritage objects. Their assessments often focus on physical properties of waterfalls and/or visitors’ judgments. However, local conditions determining the visibility of waterfalls also matter. These conditions can...
Visibility and accessibility are two key elements in the qualitative analysis of maintainability and cover most work of such qualitative analysis. At present, visibility and accessibility are analyzed by virtual maintenance technology, which greatly...
Visual quality control increasingly relies on machine learning (ML), but reliable production adoption requires a governed data-model-service lifecycle rather than an isolated detector. This article presents an implementation-grounded Open Access Plat...
Dementia progressively erodes autonomy, personal identity, and the ability to manage everyday life, placing growing demands on the people who provide care. Many AI-based assistive tools respond to this challenge by prioritizing what the algorithm can...
Artificial intelligence systems increasingly mediate high-stakes human activities, yet urban navigation remains highly challenging for blind and visually impaired individuals. Although digital navigation technologies have significantly improved route...
Injection-related errors remain a common clinical issue and can cause patient discomfort, hematoma formation, and procedural inefficiencies. The visualization of subcutaneous veins using near-infrared (NIR) imaging has gained attention as an effectiv...
Less than 7% of published works are accessible. To overcome this book famine, the Marrakesh Treaty was enacted with the view of enhancing access to published works for people with visual impairments, blind people, and people that are otherwise print-...
Since 2019, the Korean government’s investments in making data more accessible to the public have grown by 337%. However, open government data, which should be accessible to everyone, are not entirely accessible to people with low vision, who r...
24 January 2022
The service quality and safety perception of urban forests are important factors that influence tourists to choose them as recreation destinations. This study aims to propose a theoretical model of multivariate relationships to explore the relationsh...
This study investigates the potential of reality-based 3D digital modeling, acquired for scientific purposes, to enhance the understanding and accessibility of ballistic imprints on Pompeii’s city walls. These impact marks, attributed to the Su...
Accessibility analyses are an essential step in the evaluation and planning of urban infrastructures such as transport or pipeline networks. However, these studies generally produce sharply defined lines (called isovarones) or areas (called isovarone...
Augmented Reality (AR) is rapidly advancing, with a new focus on broadening accessibility beyond the visually dominant interfaces. This study explores the integration of audio-based non-visual interfaces within AR, aiming to cater to a diverse audien...
Establishing intravenous (IV) access in younger patient populations via the traditional cannulation technique for procedures requiring anesthesia is often challenging. Infrared (IR) vein visualization is a modality that aids venous cannulation; howev...
The residential built form, including open space, provides the physical environment for social interaction. Understanding urban open space, including semi-public and public domains, through the lens of physical accessibility and visual permeability c...
Proximity-oriented planning aims to deliver everyday services within a short walk, yet closeness does not guarantee usable access for all residents. This study quantifies the gap between spatial proximity and functional accessibility in Timișoar...
Dyslexia-friendly typefaces for the Latin script have been proliferating during the past decade. The typefaces are designed to tackle the challenges faced in a dyslexic reading experience by manipulating their letter forms and typographic attributes;...
Ensuring equitable educational opportunities for blind and visually impaired (BVI) students in Saudi Arabian higher education remains challenging despite legislative and institutional efforts. This paper proposes a system to assist BVI students indep...
Independent wayfinding is a major challenge for blind and visually impaired (BVI) travelers. Although GPS-based localization approaches enable the use of navigation smartphone apps that provide accessible turn-by-turn directions in outdoor settings,...
Visually impaired visitors experience many limitations when visiting museum exhibits, such as a lack of cognitive and sensory access to exhibits or replicas. Contemporary art is evolving in the direction of appreciation beyond simply looking at works...
A number of studies have been conducted to improve the accessibility of images using touchscreen devices for screen reader users. In this study, we conducted a systematic review of 33 papers to get a holistic understanding of existing approaches and...
We propose a novel mutual authentication protocol based on an enhanced XOR-based visual cryptography scheme exhibiting a non-monotonic access structure. A secret image is split into four visual shares such that the XOR of exactly three shares reveals...
Everyday heritage objects are often overlooked despite their cultural significance and vulnerability to surface degradation caused by environmental exposure, material ageing, and human interaction. This review examines how surface characterization, d...
People with sensory disabilities constitute a significant portion of society whose accessibility needs must be prioritized in the design of the built environment. Sensory disabilities cause a gap in the environmental information received, most common...
Visually impaired and blind (VIB) people as a community face several access barriers when using technology. For users of specialist technology, such as digital audio workstations (DAWs), these access barriers become increasingly complex—often s...
Background: Modern household appliances often present complex interfaces that can be difficult to use, especially for older adults, people with visual impairments, and users with mild cognitive difficulties. In such cases, interacting with appliances...
The effectiveness of open data visualization systems depends on their usability and accessibility, two attributes that are rarely examined in depth. This study examined how the administrators of 12 such systems in Colombia perceive and evaluate both,...
This paper analyzes and evaluates different types of interactions in educational software that uses three-dimensional (3D) interactions and visualization technologies, with a focus on accessibility in such environments. To determine the accessibility...
This paper investigates exhibit design strategies for communicating siege scenarios through integrated digital resources, including polyfunctional models, reality-based 3D assets, and AI generated pre-visualizations. The study reorganizes heterogeneo...
Contemporary art is evolving beyond simply looking at works, and the development of various sensory technologies has had a great influence on culture and art. Accordingly, opportunities for the visually impaired to appreciate visual artworks through...
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