Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
167 results found tagged inclusive design.
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Assistive Technology Design as a Computer Science Learning Experience
This paper from Northwestern University addresses a persistent gap in computer science education: the near-complete absence of accessibility topics from non-HCI computer science courses. The authors first conducted a formative needfinding study with …
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Accessible conversational user interfaces: considerations for design
This paper presents the first comprehensive review of accessibility considerations for conversational user interfaces (CUIs) — a category that includes chatbots, voice-activated personal assistants (like Amazon Alexa and Apple Siri), interactive voic…
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"It is fascinating to make these beasts fly": Understanding Visually Impaired People's Motivations and Needs for Drone Piloting
This paper investigates the motivations, interests, and accessibility needs of blind and visually impaired (BVI) people regarding drone piloting. While drones have been explored as assistive tools for BVI users — helping with navigation, obstacle det…
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Interdependent Variables: Remotely Designing Tactile Graphics for an Accessible Workflow
This experience report documents how a team of blind and sighted colleagues at Apple created an accessible collaborative workflow for a data visualization research project. Rather than focusing on making end products accessible, the paper addresses t…
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Making the Elusive More Tangible: Remote Tools & Techniques for Teaching Web Development to Screen Reader Users
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a free, remote web development workshop for 12 screen reader users, conducted over nine Saturday sessions between August and October 2020. The workshop was a collaboration between New…
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WordMelodies: an Inclusive Mobile App Supporting the Acquisition of Literacy Skills
This paper presents WordMelodies, a cross-platform mobile edutainment application designed for inclusive literacy education for primary school children with and without visual impairments or blindness (VIB). The app was motivated by a teacher of chil…
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LaTeX as an Inclusive Accessibility Instrument for Highschool Mathematical Education
This paper reports on the design, implementation, and outcomes of a teaching activity in an Italian high school that used LaTeX typesetting language as an inclusive tool for mathematical education. The project was designed to support "Cristina" (pseu…
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Mobile Phone Use by People with Mild to Moderate Dementia: Uncovering Challenges and Identifying Opportunities
This paper investigates how people with mild to moderate dementia use mobile phones in their daily lives, going beyond the common research focus on dementia-specific assistive apps to examine mainstream smartphone use. The authors conducted semi-stru…
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It's Enactment Time!: High-fidelity Enactment Stage for Accessible Automated Driving System Technology Research
This pictorial paper documents the iterative design and construction of a high-fidelity enactment stage for researching accessible autonomous vehicle (AV) technology with older adults and people with disabilities. Autonomous vehicles hold transformat…
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"It's Just Part of Me:" Understanding Avatar Diversity and Self-presentation of People with Disabilities in Social Virtual Reality
This paper investigates how people with disabilities (PWD) perceive, design, and use avatars for self-presentation and disability disclosure in social virtual reality (VR) platforms. The researchers employed a two-part methodology: first, a systemati…