Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Disability, Differences, and Diversity: Revisiting Inclusive Design and Access

  Himanshu Verma, Giulia Barbareschi, Sophia Ppali, Kathrin Gerling, Maartje De Meulder, Judith Good, Jatinder Singh, Katta Spiel, Abdallah El Ali, Marios Constantinides, Maristella Matera, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Hamed Alavi, Pablo Cesar, Alessandro Bozzon (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26) — Meetup

  This 2026 CHI EA meetup position paper — authored by 15 researchers across eleven European and Asian institutions — frames the current moment in accessibility as a policy-compliance inflection point and invites the HCI community to resist a complianc…

  • inclusive design
  • disability justice
  • accessibility policy
  • critical computing
  • ableism
  • European Accessibility Act
  • accessibility research
  • ethics
  • participatory design
  • aging
  • meetup

• "I Don't Trust Any Professional Research Tool": A Re-Imagination of Knowledge Production Workflows by, with, and for Blind and Low-Vision Researchers

  Omar Khan, JooYoung Seo (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper is an autoethnographically-grounded, mixed-methods study of how blind and low-vision (BLV) researchers actually do research inside an ecosystem of tools built with sighted workflows in mind. Written by two BLV researchers (one tot…

  • meta-research
  • blind and low vision
  • research workflows
  • academic accessibility
  • activity theory
  • mixed methods
  • reflexive thematic analysis
  • research tools
  • screen readers
  • ableism
  • epistemic injustice
  • qualitative analysis software
  • AI accessibility
  • scholarly publishing
  • disability studies

• "I followed what felt right, not what I was told": Autonomy, Coaching, and Recognizing Bias Through AI-Mediated Dialogue

  Atieh Taheri, Hamza El Alaoui, Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 experimental study tests whether brief AI-mediated dialogue can shift people's recognition of ableist microaggressions, and whether the direction of AI coaching (biased, inclusive, or absent) changes the nature of that shift. The author…

  • ableism
  • microaggressions
  • bias recognition
  • AI-mediated dialogue
  • large language models
  • disability studies
  • human-AI interaction
  • intervention design
  • vignette study
  • experimental HCI
  • framing
  • nudging

• When Assistive Technologies become Provocations: Unpacking Access in HCI practices using Crip Technoscience, Mouth Interfaces, and XR

  Puneet Jain, Ayush Sharma, Sidharth Chaudhary, Vivek Rawat, Akhilesh Kumar Bhagat, Kratika Jain, Christian Bayerlein, Christopher Lloyd Salter, Gowdham Prabhakar (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper reframes assistive technology as political provocation rather than technical fix. Developed in long-term collaboration with two disabled artists - Eric Desrosiers (muscular dystrophy) and Christian Bayerlein (spinal muscular atrop…

  • crip technoscience
  • extended reality
  • XR accessibility
  • mouth interface
  • provocation
  • assistive technology
  • disability-led design
  • ableism
  • HCI research methods
  • activist design
  • participatory design
  • disability justice
  • critical disability studies

• Access in the Shadow of Ableism: An Autoethnography of a Blind Student's Higher Education Experience in China

  Xinru Tang, Weijun Zhang (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This paper is a collaborative autoethnography written by Xinru Tang and Weijun Zhang, in which Zhang - a blind graduate student who completed his undergraduate work in a specialized program for blind and low-vision (BLV) students at "University A" in…

  • blind and low vision
  • higher education
  • autoethnography
  • ableism
  • disability studies
  • china
  • non-weird
  • critical disability studies
  • screen readers

• How Designing for People With and Without Disabilities Shapes Student Design Thinking

  Kristen Shinohara, Cynthia L. Bennett, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2016) — ASSETS '16: Proceedings of the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This study investigates how requiring student designers to create technologies for both disabled and non-disabled users influences their understanding of accessibility and design thinking. Unlike typical disability-specific design approaches that pro…

  • accessibility education
  • design thinking
  • inclusive design
  • user-centered design
  • ableism
  • design education
  • Universal Design
  • participatory design

• Adult Autism Research Priorities and Conceptualization in Computing Research: Invitation to Co-lead with Autistic Adults

  Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramirez, Giulia Barbareschi, Cathy Holloway (2024) — ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

  This extensive literature review critically examines computing research involving autistic adults, analyzing 44 papers from the ACM Guide to Computing Literature published between 2007 and 2022. The work is distinctive in that the first author is aut…

  • autism
  • neurodiversity
  • adult autism
  • research priorities
  • disability models
  • double empathy problem
  • participatory research
  • ableism
  • critical disability studies
  • identity-first language

• Prefigurative Politics and Passionate Witnessing

  Rua M. Williams, LouAnne E. Boyd (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

  This experience report traces the unlikely partnership between two researchers — Rua Williams, an autistic disability studies scholar and activist, and LouAnne Boyd, a former behaviour therapist turned HCI researcher — whose work initially placed the…

  • critical disability studies
  • autism
  • research ethics
  • disability justice
  • participatory design
  • research methodology
  • ableism
  • neurodiversity
  • reflexivity

• Disability, ICT and eLearning Platforms: Faculty-Facing Embedded Work Tools in Learning Management Systems

  Sushil K. Oswal (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

  This paper presents preliminary findings from a longitudinal study of the accessibility of the Canvas learning management system (LMS) for faculty with visual disabilities. What makes this study distinctive is its focus on the faculty-facing interfac…

  • learning management systems
  • higher education
  • screen readers
  • visual impairment
  • faculty accessibility
  • Canvas LMS
  • participatory design
  • ableism
  • workplace accessibility

• Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design

  Megan Hofmann, Devva Kasnitz, Jennifer Mankoff, Cynthia L. Bennett (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents a reflexive autoethnographic analysis by three accessibility researchers (Hofmann, Mankoff, Bennett) and one disability studies scholar (Kasnitz), all of whom are disabled, examining how their lived experiences of disability inter…

  • disability studies
  • ableism
  • autoethnography
  • disability theory
  • accessibility research
  • chronic illness
  • invisible disability
  • intersectionality
  • critical theory