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

• Infrastructuring as Collective Resistance: How Disabled Students Negotiate Access Through Technology in Universities

  Carolyn Kim Ly, Trevor Cross, Selin Tasman, Jocelyn Mattka, Olivia Doggett, Megh Marathe, Priyank Chandra (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Ly, Cross, Tasman, Mattka, Doggett, Marathe, and Chandra examine how disabled students at a large Canadian university collectively negotiate access when the institution's individualised accommodations system fails them. Through semi-structured interv…

  • higher education accessibility
  • access work
  • infrastructuring
  • mutual aid
  • disability justice
  • student activism
  • counteractive frictions
  • critical disability studies
  • accommodations
  • care webs

• Disqualified by Disability: The Exclusion of Disabled Workers by Digitized Hiring Assessments

  Michal Luria, Matthew U. Scherer, Ariana Aboulafia, Dhanaraj Thakur (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Luria, Scherer, Aboulafia, and Thakur — researchers at the Center for Democracy and Technology — conduct a qualitative, human-centered study of how "digitized assessments" (personality tests, gamified cognitive tests, situational judgement tests, emo…

  • AI hiring
  • algorithmic hiring
  • digitized assessments
  • automated employment decision systems
  • AEDT
  • employment discrimination
  • gamified assessment
  • video interview
  • disability justice
  • access labor
  • accessibility barriers

• Lost in Translation: Understanding Autistic-Neurotypical Communication Style Differences in Job Postings

  Huining Feng, Zinat Ara, Andrew Hundt, Slobodan Vucetic, John Joon Young Chung, Sungsoo Ray Hong (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper investigates a concrete and consequential site of autistic-neurotypical (NT) communication mismatch: the written job posting. Autistic adults face an approximately 85% unemployment or underemployment rate (compared to 4% in the ge…

  • autism
  • autistic communication
  • communication style differences
  • autistic employment
  • double empathy problem
  • pragmatic language
  • workplace accessibility
  • natural language processing
  • large language models
  • data annotation
  • disability justice

• When the World Opens Up: Journeys of People with Intellectual Disabilities in Social Virtual Reality

  Alexandra Covaci, Winnie Tsang, Sophia Ppali, Paraskevi Triantafyllopoulou, Monica Perusquia-Hernandez, Oscar Zhou, Fotis Liarokapis, Marios Constantinides, Mohamed Khamis, Shujun Li (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper challenges the dominant remedial paradigm in HCI research on virtual reality and people with intellectual disabilities (ID), which has largely framed VR as a tool for training functional life skills (cooking, shopping, transport) …

  • intellectual disability
  • virtual reality
  • social VR
  • VRChat
  • disability justice
  • participatory design
  • self-determination
  • interdependence
  • digital citizenship
  • crip technoscience
  • reflexive thematic analysis
  • easy read

• From Autonomy to Sovereignty — A New Telos for Socially Assistive Technology

  JiWoong (Joon) Jang, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 theory paper argues that assistive-technology (AT) research has long treated 'independence' as its primary goal — a framing codified in the 1988 U.S. Technology-Related Assistance Act — even though disabled people's lived experience is …

  • social accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • relational sovereignty
  • interdependence
  • independence
  • crip technoscience
  • disability justice
  • self-determination theory
  • symbolic interactionism
  • posthumanism
  • design theory
  • systematic literature review
  • power and governance

• Exploring AI Opportunities in Deaf Education: Understanding Design Needs Through Teacher and Parent Perspectives in Bangladesh

  Md. Ataur Rahman Bhuiyan, Nadim Mahmud Dipu, Tanvir Rahman, Oindri Aurunima Sarker, Shidhartha Chakrabarty Turzo, Jannatun Noor (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 qualitative study investigates how AI-powered educational tools should be designed for Deaf learners in Bangladesh — a low-resource context where Bangla Sign Language (BdSL) is still evolving, datasets are small, and infrastructure (int…

  • deaf education
  • sign language
  • Bangla Sign Language
  • BdSL
  • artificial intelligence
  • large language models
  • accessibility
  • co-design
  • Global South
  • educational technology
  • low-resource setting
  • Bangladesh
  • qualitative research
  • disability justice

• Fluid Independence: Powered Wheelchair Users' Perspectives on Autonomy, Care, and Assistive Technology

  Md Tanzil Shahria, Nayan Banik, Md Samiul Haque Sunny, Mohammad H Rahman (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper reports a large qualitative study of 55 powered-wheelchair users (PWUs) across ten U.S. states, using 45-minute semi-structured interviews and Braun-and-Clarke thematic analysis to examine how independence is experienced, negotiat…

  • powered wheelchair
  • assistive technology
  • participatory design
  • independence
  • caregiving
  • technology abandonment
  • disability justice
  • relational autonomy
  • qualitative research

• 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

• The Three Praxes Framework — A Thematic Review and Map of Social Accessibility Research

  JiWoong (Joon) Jang, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper by Jang, Carrington, and Begel (Carnegie Mellon) offers a thematic review and conceptual map of fifteen years of "social accessibility" research in HCI—the body of work, inaugurated by Shinohara and Wobbrock in 2011, that studies …

  • social accessibility
  • disability justice
  • critical technical practice
  • research framework
  • literature review
  • assistive technology
  • design theory
  • social computing
  • qualitative research
  • HCI