Are We There Yet? Assessing Computer-Use Agents for Blind Users' Accessible Interaction with Desktop Applications

arXiv:2609.00524 · cs.HC, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.HC, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Code: https://github.com/Satwikram/OLLA

Terminology

• Trace — 29× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 15× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adam — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Failure Modes — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative AI — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Multimodal approach — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Persona Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Personalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Procedural Knowledge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen3-VL Technical Report
• Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale
• The BrowserGym Ecosystem for Web Agent Research
• OSUniverse: Benchmark for Multimodal GUI-navigation AI Agents
• WorkArena: How Capable Are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks?
• ST-WebAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Safety and Trustworthiness in Web Agents
• ORCE: Order-Aware Alignment of Verbalized Confidence in Large Language Models
• OKBench: Democratizing LLM Evaluation with Fully Automated, On-Demand, Open Knowledge Benchmarking
• UI-TARS: Pioneering Automated GUI Interaction with Native Agents
• Just Do It!? Computer-Use Agents Exhibit Blind Goal-Directedness
• OpenAI GPT-5 System Card
• An Illusion of Progress? Assessing the Current State of Web Agents
• Capability Self-Assessment in Large Language Models
• WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents
• Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences

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