Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
61 results found tagged accessibility.
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Deaf and Hard of Hearing Access to Intelligent Personal Assistants: Comparison of Voice-Based Options with an LLM-Powered Touch Interface
This mixed-methods study compares three input methods for Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) people who use their voice to interact with an Amazon Echo Show: (1) natural deaf-accented speech via Alexa's built-in ASR, (2) Wizard-of-Oz 'facilitated English…
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Beyond the Manual: Mapping Peer-Generated Content about Wheelchair Care and Adaptation on YouTube
This CHI 2026 paper presents a content analysis of 290 YouTube videos (from 194 unique channels, 8,629 initial results narrowed via inclusion/exclusion) and 800 sampled comments from a total 10,781 harvested, examining how wheelchair users and their …
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From Struggle to Success: Context-Aware Guidance for Screen Reader Users in Computer Use
Chen, Lu, Wang, Qiu, Chen and Yang present AskEase, an NVDA add-on that delivers on-demand, step-by-step, screen-reader-friendly guidance for blind and low-vision computer users tackling unfamiliar desktop software. The work responds to a persistent …
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Belonging in the Making: Investigating Inclusive Makerspace Design for Youth with Autism
Zhang, Sakowicz, Wingeart, and Hamidi investigate how makerspaces — the hands-on, technology-rich learning environments that have become common in libraries, schools, and community centres — can be designed to genuinely include youth with autism, rat…
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SceneScout: Towards AI-Driven Access to Street Level Imagery for Blind Users
Jain, Findlater and Gleason present SceneScout, a prototype web interface that uses a multimodal large language model (GPT-4o) to make street level imagery — the panoramic pedestrian-height photography behind Apple Maps Look Around and Google Street …
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Disability-First AI Dataset Annotation: Co-designing Stuttered Speech Annotation Guidelines with People Who Stutter
Tang, Li, and Wu present the first study to push the 'disability-first' principle beyond dataset collection and into the dataset annotation stage of the AI pipeline. Their case is stuttered speech: despite a growing number of stuttering datasets (Flu…
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Co-designing MESA-Bot: Enhancing Accessibility, Privacy, Security, and Trust in a Mental Health Chatbot for Older Adults
Surani and Das address the gap between accessibility design and privacy-and-security engineering in mental health chatbots for older adults, a population nearly a billion strong worldwide for whom cost, stigma, wait times, and digital-literacy barrie…
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Affective Wearable Haptic Interventions: A Systematic Literature Review
This systematic literature review synthesises 83 empirical studies on affective wearable haptic interventions published between 2010 and 2025, drawn from 1,098 articles identified in ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. The review maps the design spa…
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Inclusive Design of AI's Explanations: Just for Those Previously Left Out?
This paper investigates whether inclusive design applied to AI explanations can produce curb-cut effects: improvements designed to help underserved users that also benefit everyone. The study centres on Explainable AI (XAI), a field concerned with he…
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Expanding Perspectives to Improve Access to Visual Archives through Multimodal Image Enrichment
This paper addresses a pervasive challenge in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector: large-scale visual collections that have been digitised but remain undiscoverable because they lack descriptive metadata. The authors, from th…