Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
196 results found tagged participatory design.
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Understanding Personalized Accessibility through Teachable AI: Designing and Evaluating Find My Things for People who are Blind or Low Vision
This paper from Microsoft Research presents Find My Things, one of the first fully realized end-to-end teachable AI applications for accessibility. The app allows people who are blind or low vision to teach their phone to recognize personal objects —…
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UnlockedMaps: A Web-Based Map for Visualizing the Real-Time Accessibility of Urban Rail Transit Stations
This paper presents UnlockedMaps, an open-data web-based map that visualizes the real-time elevator status of urban rail transit stations in six North American cities: Bay Area, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Toronto. The work addresse…
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UnlockedMaps: A Web-Based Map for Visualizing the Real-Time Accessibility of Urban Rail Transit Stations
This paper presents UnlockedMaps, an open-data web-based map that visualizes the real-time accessibility status of urban rail transit stations across six North American cities. The system addresses a critical gap: commuters who depend on functioning …
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Ability + Motivation: Understanding Factors that Influence People with Cognitive Disabilities in Regularly Practicing Daily Activities
This paper investigates the factors that influence people with cognitive disabilities in regularly practicing daily activities, focusing on the interplay between ability and motivation. The researchers conducted 90-minute remote participatory design …
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Participatory Design for Cognitive Accessibility of Web-based Interactive Systems
This doctoral consortium paper outlines a PhD research program aimed at addressing the significant underrepresentation of cognitive accessibility in web accessibility research. The author notes that while cognitive disabilities account for a 28% shar…
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A Universal Web Accessibility Feedback Form: A Participatory Design Study
This paper addresses a gap in web accessibility practice: while automated testing tools can catch structural violations, they cannot reliably assess the quality of alternative text, the usability of dynamic content, or many other issues that only hum…
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ChartA11y: Designing Accessible Touch Experiences of Visualizations with Blind Smartphone Users
This paper presents ChartA11y, an iOS mobile application that makes 2-D data visualizations accessible to blind and low-vision (BLV) smartphone users through multimodal touch interactions. Developed through an iterative participatory design process i…
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MaskSound: Exploring Sound Masking Approaches to Support People with Autism in Managing Noise Sensitivity
This paper investigates sound masking as an alternative strategy for helping autistic individuals manage noise sensitivity in everyday environments. Unlike noise cancellation or isolation approaches that block out environmental sounds entirely, sound…
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I Wish You Could Make the Camera Stand Still: Envisioning Media Accessibility Interventions with People with Aphasia
This paper presents the first study aimed at envisioning accessibility interventions for audiovisual media specifically designed for people with aphasia — a language disorder typically caused by stroke that affects the production and comprehension of…
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From research participant to co-researcher: Chloe's story on co-designing inclusive technologies with people with intellectual disability
This experience report centers the voice of Chloe Haidenhofer, a woman with intellectual disability who has transitioned from research participant to co-researcher over five years of collaboration with the inclusive design technologies team at Queens…