Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Health Problem Solving by Older Persons Using a Complex Government Web Site: Analysis and Implications for Web Design
This study examined how older adults (ages 50-85) navigate Medicare.gov to complete a realistic health-related task: finding quality ratings for home health care agencies. The researchers recruited 112 participants stratified by age decade (50s, 60s,…
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Usability of a Multimodal Video Game to Improve Navigation Skills for Blind Children
This paper presents an evaluative study of a multimodal system combining a custom haptic device (Digital Clock Carpet) with a 3D audio-based video game (MOVA3D) to develop orientation and mobility (O&M) skills in blind school-aged children. The Digit…
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Ability-Based Design: Concept, Principles and Examples
This foundational paper introduces ability-based design as a paradigm shift in accessible computing—moving focus from what users cannot do (disability) to what they can do (ability). The authors argue that traditional approaches like assistive techno…
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Identifying Behavioral Strategies of Visually Impaired Users to Improve Access to Web Content
This paper presents a methodology for identifying how visually impaired screen reader users develop coping strategies when encountering inaccessible web content, then uses those strategies to inform the design of transcoding solutions. The researcher…
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Universal Design of Auditory Graphs: A Comparison of Sonification Mappings for Visually Impaired and Sighted Listeners
This study investigates whether auditory graphs—using sound to represent data for people who cannot see visual graphs—can be designed universally for both sighted and visually impaired users, or whether different sonification mappings are needed for …
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Write-N-Speak: Authoring Multimodal Digital-Paper Materials for Speech-Language Therapy
This paper presents Write-N-Speak, a digital pen toolkit that enables speech-language therapists to create custom multimodal therapy materials for clients with aphasia—a communication disorder often resulting from stroke that affects approximately 80…
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Representing Users in Accessibility Research
This position paper challenges common practices in accessibility research where studies intended to benefit people with disabilities are conducted without including representative users from those populations. The authors—prominent accessibility rese…
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Stroke Therapy through Motion-Based Games: A Case Study
This case study explores the long-term home use of motion-based video games for stroke rehabilitation—an area where prior research focused mainly on clinical settings or short-term evaluations. The participant was a 62-year-old woman with hemiparesis…
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Data-Driven Synthesis of Spatially Inflected Verbs for American Sign Language Animation
This paper addresses a critical accessibility challenge: most deaf individuals in the US have limited English literacy (the majority of deaf high school graduates read at a fourth-grade level), making written web content inaccessible. While sign lang…
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Is Accessibility Conformance an Elusive Property? A Study of Validity and Reliability of WCAG 2.0
This landmark study investigates whether WCAG 2.0's definition of "Reliably Human Testable"—that at least 80% of knowledgeable evaluators would agree on an audit conclusion—is actually achievable in practice. The researchers recruited 25 experienced …