← Writing · Glossary →

Reviews

The literature-review database. Every paper Bob has reviewed (he has read many more), with a short summary, key findings, and tags. Browse, filter, search.

Search results

  • UIClip: A Data-driven Model for Assessing User Interface Design

    Jason Wu, Yi-Hao Peng, Xin Yue Amanda Li, Amanda Swearngin, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Jeffrey Nichols · 2024 · Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '24)

    This paper introduces UIClip, a computational model that automatically assesses UI design quality and visual relevance from a screenshot and natural language description. Built on OpenAI's CLIP B/32 architecture (151 million parameters), UIClip is fine-tuned on a novel…

    UI design · machine learning · design quality assessment · computer vision · CLIP

  • Good Background Colors for Readers: A Study of People with and without Dyslexia

    Luz Rello, Jeffrey P. Bigham · 2017 · Proceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '17)

    This paper presents the first large-scale user study measuring the effect of background colors on screen readability for people with and without dyslexia, providing empirical evidence for the widely recommended but previously unvalidated practice of using colored backgrounds to…

    dyslexia · readability · color contrast · reading accessibility · visual design

  • Accessible Icon Design in Enterprise Applications

    Eric Stilan, Amy Chen, Lulit Bezuayehu · 2011 · Proceedings of the International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper from Oracle's design team presents case studies of designing accessible icons for enterprise software, focusing on the challenge of conveying complex meanings — conditional status, severity levels, data trends — within 16x16 pixel icons without relying on color as the…

    visual design · color contrast · color blindness · accessible design · user interface design

  • Reading in Multimodal Environments: Assessing Legibility and Accessibility of Typography for Television

    Penelope Allen, Judith Garman, Ian Calvert, Jane Murison · 2011 · The Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

    This demonstration paper from BBC Research & Development explores the legibility and accessibility of typography on television, an area that had received surprisingly little research attention despite the increasing complexity of text-based content on TV. Modern television…

    typography · readability · multimedia accessibility · low vision · cognitive accessibility

  • The Interplay Between Web Aesthetics and Accessibility

    Grace Mbipom, Simon Harper · 2011 · Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

    This paper investigates whether the commonly held belief that visually attractive websites are inherently inaccessible holds true. The research was conducted in two studies. In Study 1, 30 sighted web users rated 50 homepages (drawn from Alexa top UK sites and Webby Award…

    web accessibility · visual design · user experience · accessibility evaluation · heuristic evaluation

  • Is accessible design a myth?

    Eric A. Meyer · 2005 · Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    In this position paper, prominent CSS expert Eric Meyer (of Complex Spiral Consulting) examines the tensions between rich visual web design and accessibility, asking whether the two can truly coexist. Meyer traces the history of CSS image replacement techniques — Fahrner Image…

    screen readers · CSS · image replacement · skip links · web design

  • Tension, what tension?: Website accessibility and visual design

    Helen Petrie, Fraser Hamilton, Neil King · 2004 · Proceedings of the 2004 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    This paper from City University London directly challenges the widespread belief among web designers that accessible websites must be visually plain and boring. The researchers conducted a large-scale evaluation of 100 websites, starting with automated WAI guideline testing of…

    visual design · user testing · web accessibility · usability · disability

  • Accessibility and design: a failure of the imagination

    Bob Regan · 2004 · Proceedings of the 2004 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

    Written by Bob Regan of Macromedia (makers of Flash), this paper argues that the poor state of web accessibility represents a "failure of the imagination" — a failure by both the design community to engage with accessibility and by accessibility advocates to inspire designers.…

    visual design · accessible design · Flash accessibility · CSS · web standards

8 results.