Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
31 results found tagged accessibility research.
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Speech AI for All: The What, How, and Who of Measurement
This CHI 2026 workshop proposal — the second in the organisers' 'Speech AI for All' series — assembles 17 researchers, practitioners, and community advocates to tackle a specific downstream problem in fair and accessible speech AI: measurement. The m…
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Disability, Differences, and Diversity: Revisiting Inclusive Design and Access
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…
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From Compliance to Decision Confidence: A Scoping Review of Accessible E-Commerce for Blind and Low-Vision People
Ryskeldiev, Gillingham, and Kobori (Mercari R4D and University of Tsukuba) present a scoping review of 21 papers (14 directly about e-commerce accessibility for blind and low-vision (BLV) users, 7 adjacent) published 2010-2025, drawn from ACM DL, Goo…
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TacChat: Exploring User Generation and Accessible Sharing via Tactile Graphics for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Zhang and colleagues (Tsinghua University, Singapore Management University, and Beijing School for the Blind) flip the usual framing of tactile-graphics research: rather than asking how blind and low-vision (BLV) people can better consume tactile ima…
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The Perceptual Gap: Why We Need Accessible XAI for Assistive Technologies
Choudhury (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) presents a position paper and targeted literature review arguing that explainable AI (XAI) — the body of methods that help users understand why a black-box model produced a particular output — is f…
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Beyond Additive Design: An Empirical Taxonomy of Multimodal STEM Accessibility Systems
Sadallah and Encelle conduct a systematic review of 66 multimodal STEM accessibility systems for blind and visually impaired (BVI) users published between 2015 and 2025, drawn from the ACM Digital Library, IEEE Xplore, OpenAlex, PubMed, and Web of Sc…
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AI That Moves With You: A Review of Interactive Technologies Powered by Large Foundation Models for Mobility Impairment
This paper is a scoping review (PRISMA-ScR) of how large foundation models - LLMs, large vision models, and vision-language models - are being woven into interactive assistive technologies for people with mobility impairments, covering publications f…
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Co-Design of Technology with and for People with Intellectual Disabilities: A Scoping Review of Methods and Inclusion Strategies
This scoping review examines how people with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) and their support networks have been involved in the co-design of technology, addressing a persistent gap: despite HCI's growing emphasis on inclusive design, people with ID …
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Understanding the Motivations of Final-year Computing Undergraduates for Considering Accessibility
This 22-page ACM Transactions on Computing Education article asks a question that most accessibility education research has side-stepped: what happens to students’ motivation to build accessible technology two years after a required accessibility-edu…
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Implementation and Evaluation of Animation Controls Sufficient for Conveying ASL Facial Expressions
This ASSETS 2014 short paper (2 pages) reports an infrastructure contribution to sign-language-animation research: the authors extended an existing virtual human character (Max, on the open-source EMBR animation platform) with a full set of MPEG-4 Fa…