Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
190 results found tagged cognitive accessibility.
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Introducing People with ASD to Crowd Work
This paper explores whether crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) can provide viable employment opportunities for adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). With an estimated 50-75% unemployment rate among adults with ASD in the …
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AMI: An Adaptable Music Interface to Support the Varying Needs of People with Dementia
This paper presents AMI (Adaptable Music Interface), a tangible, modular music player designed to be reconfigured by caregivers to match the changing needs and preferences of individuals with dementia. Over 46 million people worldwide live with demen…
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DytectiveU: A Game to Train the Difficulties and the Strengths of Children with Dyslexia
This demonstration paper presents DytectiveU, a game-based application containing 35,000 exercises designed to train cognitive abilities related to dyslexia in Spanish-speaking children. Unlike most existing dyslexia interventions that focus narrowly…
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Usability Testing - An Aphasia Perspective
This experience report from City, University of London presents how classic usability testing methods were adapted to include people with aphasia, co-authored with Ian Davey, a person with aphasia who participated in the adapted testing. Aphasia is a…
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Using the Musical Multimedia Tool ACMUS with People with Severe Mental Disorders: A Pilot Study
This demo paper from the University of Navarra presents a pilot study evaluating ACMUS (Accessible Music), a multimedia tool that adds visual and interactive dimensions to music therapy for people with severe mental disorders. Music therapy has shown…
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Jellys: Towards a Videogame that Trains Rhythm and Visual Attention for Dyslexia
This demo paper describes Jellys, a video game designed to train two cognitive components linked to reading development — auditory rhythm perception and visual attention — as an intervention for children with dyslexia. The research is grounded in evi…
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Volunteer-Based Online Studies With Older Adults and People with Disabilities
This paper validates volunteer-based online experiments as a methodology for conducting large-scale accessibility research with people with disabilities and older adults — populations that are notoriously difficult to recruit for laboratory studies. …
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The semantic web, web accessibility, and device independence
Written by Lisa Seeman of UB Access, this paper argues that Semantic Web technologies — particularly RDF (Resource Description Framework) annotations — can dramatically improve web accessibility beyond what WCAG guidelines alone can achieve, especial…
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A conceptual framework for accessibility tools to benefit users with cognitive disabilities
This paper from WebAIM researchers at Utah State University proposes a conceptual framework to guide the development of accessibility tools that address the needs of users with cognitive disabilities. The authors argue that existing accessibility eva…
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Developing countries; developing experiences: approaches to accessibility for the real world
This paper critically examines the limitations of relying solely on technical accessibility guidelines like WCAG to achieve digital inclusion, particularly in the context of developing countries. The authors argue that the WAI model — which depends o…