Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
116 results found tagged crowdsourcing.
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A survey of open accessibility data
This paper surveys the landscape of open accessibility data in the UK, focusing on geographic and location-based datasets that could help people with disabilities navigate physical spaces and plan travel. The authors examine five data sources: Wheelm…
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Friendsourcing the Unmet Needs of People with Dementia
This paper presents a system that combines automatic smartphone-based lifelogging with friendsourcing — a form of crowdsourcing limited to a trusted social network — to create a cognitive prosthesis for people with dementia (PwD). With an estimated 3…
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LuzDeploy: A Collective Action System for Installing Navigation Infrastructure for Blind People
This demonstration paper presents LuzDeploy, a system designed to solve a practical bottleneck in deploying indoor navigation infrastructure for blind people: the difficulty of recruiting, training, and coordinating enough personnel to install Blueto…
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Measuring Text Simplification with the Crowd
This paper investigates whether non-expert crowd workers can reliably evaluate the simplicity of English text, addressing a key gap in text simplification research. Text simplification — reducing the lexical and syntactic complexity of sentences whil…
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Overcoming the New Accessibility Challenges Using the Sweet Framework
This paper argues for a broader definition of web accessibility that extends beyond disability to encompass linguistic, socio-cultural, and cognitive barriers faced by all users, a concept the authors call "New Accessibility." The research proposes a…
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CAN: Composable Accessibility Infrastructure via Data-Driven Crowdsourcing
This paper presents CAN (Composable Accessibility Infrastructure), a crowdsourcing platform that collects web accessibility issues from real websites and their open-source fixes, dynamically composes solutions on-the-fly, and delivers the crowdsource…
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Introducing Game Elements in Crowdsourced Video Captioning by Non-Experts
This paper from CUNY Graduate Center and IBM Research Tokyo presents a gamified crowdsourcing platform for video captioning that combines ASR output with non-expert human transcription to improve caption accuracy without monetary rewards. The system …
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The Effects of Automatic Speech Recognition Quality on Human Transcription Latency
This paper from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan empirically investigates when automatic speech recognition (ASR) output helps or hinders human transcriptionists producing captions for deaf and hard of hearing people. Manual …
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Scopist: Building a Skill Ladder into Crowd Transcription
This paper introduces Scopist, a JavaScript application designed to teach crowd workers stenotype — a chording-based text entry method used by professional real-time captioners — while they perform audio transcription microtasks. The research address…
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The Crowd Work Accessibility Problem
This paper examines a largely overlooked accessibility problem: the inaccessibility of crowdsourcing tasks themselves. While crowd work platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) offer potential employment benefits for people with disabilities — fle…