Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
31 results found tagged accessibility research.
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Sign Language Interfaces: Discussing the Field's Biggest Challenges
This CHI 2020 Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting paper (5 pages) is an organising document rather than a conventional research paper. It convenes HCI and accessibility researchers working on sign-language interfaces around the five calls-to-action …
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Methods for Evaluation of Imperfect Captioning Tools by Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Users at Different Reading Literacy Levels
This CHI 2018 paper (awarded an Honourable Mention) is the originating methodological study behind the group’s later Alonzo et al. work on Automatic Text Simplification evaluation. It asks: when Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) participants evaluate im…
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Usability Evaluation of Captions for People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
This is a SIGACCESS Newsletter article summarizing a line of research by Kafle and Huenerfauth on building a caption-quality evaluation metric that actually reflects the experience of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) readers — rather than simply counti…
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Watch It, Don't Imagine It: Creating a Better Caption-Occlusion Metric by Collecting More Ecologically Valid Judgments from DHH Viewers
This CHI 2022 paper builds a better automated metric for the severity of caption-occlusion — the problem of closed captions blocking important on-screen visual content during television programming. DHH viewers consistently report that even perfectly…
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Remotely Co-Designing Features for Communication Applications using Automatic Captioning with Deaf and Hearing Pairs
This CHI 2022 paper addresses two intertwined problems. First, methodologically, how can co-design research involving both Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) and hearing participants be conducted remotely during and beyond COVID-19, when in-person sessions a…
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Analyzing Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Users' Behavior, Usage, and Interaction with a Personal Assistant Device that Understands Sign-Language Input
This CHI 2022 paper investigates how Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (DHH) ASL signers would actually use a personal assistant device (such as an Amazon Echo Show or Google Home) if it could understand American Sign Language commands. The authors position t…
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Deaf Individuals' Views on Speaking Behaviors of Hearing Peers when Using an Automatic Captioning App
This CHI 2020 Late-Breaking Work paper investigates what behaviors hearing speakers should ideally exhibit when holding in-person conversations with Deaf or deaf people using an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) captioning app on a mobile device. Th…
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Tactile Emotions: Multimodal Affective Captioning with Haptics Improves Narrative Engagement for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Viewers
This paper explores a multimodal approach to affective captioning — captions that convey not just the words a speaker says but the emotional dimensions of their voice — for d/Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing (dhh) viewers. Prior work has shown that typograph…
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Analysis of Navigability of Web Applications for Improving Blind Usability
This TOCHI article is a two-study investigation into why modern web applications — especially visually dense online shopping sites — remain slow and frustrating for blind users even when they pass automated accessibility checks. The authors argue tha…
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Disability Studies as a Source of Critical Inquiry for the Field of Assistive Technology
This keynote-style paper argues that the assistive technology (AT) research community should draw more deeply from disability studies scholarship to improve both the problems it chooses to address and its research methods. The authors — two of whom i…