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3 results found tagged privacy.
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Sign Language and Technology: Advances, Tensions, and the Question of Who Benefits
Research on sign language accessibility reveals a field where impressive technical progress coexists with fundamental questions about privacy, community authority, and whether the technology serves deaf people or merely studies them. This article examines 74 papers spanning recognition and translation, the 93% privacy concern rate for sign language data, the disconnect between ML practitioners and the Deaf community, avatar resistance, information access, learning technology, and the persistent one-directional translation bias.
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AI Safety and Disability: What Accessibility Research Reveals About Hallucination, Bias, Privacy, and the Protocols That Do and Don't Exist
Disabled people depend on AI systems they cannot verify, trust AI outputs that fabricate content, and share intimate data with platforms that offer no disability-specific protections. This article examines approximately 135 papers documenting 79 AI harm incidents, the 4.9x improvement in unreliable claim detection when AI uncertainty is surfaced, zero disability-specific privacy protections across 18 AT policies, sycophantic AI behaviour, age stereotyping, career chatbot fabrication, and the protocols that do and do not exist to protect disabled users.
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Where Are the Deafblind Users in Digital Accessibility Research?
What the academic literature tells us about an overlooked population — and the researchers working to change that. Drawing on 12 peer-reviewed papers from the A11y Paradise database, this article examines the barriers deafblind people face in digital accessibility and the innovative solutions emerging from haptic technology, cross-disability research, and policy analysis.