Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
190 results found tagged cognitive accessibility.
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Navigating STEM Doctoral Programs with ADHD: Barriers, Workflow Challenges, and Adaptive Strategies
This paper investigates how PhD students with ADHD navigate the structural barriers of STEM doctoral programs through a mixed-methods study with 13 participants. The research addresses a significant gap: while the 2023 Survey of Earned Doctorates rep…
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Executive Dysfunction by Design: A Cognitive Accessibility Analysis of AI Support vs. Healthcare Barriers
This first-person autoethnographic experience report examines the paradox of how generative AI tools have become effective assistive technology for executive dysfunction while healthcare systems designed to provide ADHD treatment actively undermine t…
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Rethinking Productivity with GenAI: A Neurodivergent Students' Perspective
This qualitative study examines how 19 neurodivergent university students (including those with ADHD, autism, OCD, dysgraphia, and auditory processing disorder) use LLM-based generative AI tools like ChatGPT in their academic work. Through semi-struc…
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An Analysis of Age, Technology Usage, and Cognitive Characteristics Within Information Retrieval Tasks
This paper challenges the common practice of using chronological age as the primary metric for distinguishing user performance in HCI studies, arguing that Internet confidence and cognitive factors — particularly perceptual speed — are far better pre…
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Guidelines for Creating Senior-Friendly Product Instructions
This paper addresses the widespread challenge older adults face when using product instructions, which are typically designed for a general audience without consideration for age-related changes in cognition, vision, and motor skills. The authors dev…
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Designing Accessible, Explainable AI (XAI) Experiences
This paper examines the intersection of explainable AI (XAI) and accessibility, identifying two primary concerns that the XAI field has largely overlooked. The first concern is accessibility at the XAI interface itself. While XAI techniques like visu…
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SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury
This paper introduces SMART-TBI (Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit), a browser extension designed to make Facebook more accessible for people with traumatic brain injury (TBI). TBI can cause a range of cognitive and communication …
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Exploring Videoconferencing for Older Adults with Cognitive Concerns Using a Dramaturgical Lens
This paper examines how older adults with cognitive concerns — ranging from subjective cognitive complaints to diagnosed mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and early-stage dementia — experience videoconferencing platforms like Zoom. Using Erving Goffman…
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Adapting UX Research for People Living with Alzheimer's, Dementia, and MCI: Improving the UX Research Process for Participants
This practitioner-focused paper shares first-hand lessons from conducting UX research with people living with Alzheimer's disease, other forms of dementia, and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The author, a UX researcher at the Alzheimer's Associatio…
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What We Know About Digital Accessibility for People with Cognitive, Learning, and Neurological Disabilities
A comprehensive review of research on digital accessibility for people with cognitive, learning, and neurological disabilities. Examines the gap between current standards (which focus primarily on sensory and motor disabilities) and the needs of this…