Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• The Fears, The Hopes, The Oscillations: A Critical Analysis of Tech Startups Targeting Autism

  Yihe Wang, Bhavani Seetharaman, Rosemary Steup, Norman Makoto Su, Kathryn E. Ringland (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper employs thematic and critical discourse analysis to examine the websites of 38 autism tech startups founded in the U.S. since 2012, investigating how these companies construct problems, users, and technological legitimacy through their mar…

  • autism
  • disability representation
  • critical disability studies
  • marketing discourse
  • tech startups
  • medical model
  • social model
  • neurodiversity
  • discourse analysis
  • ableism

• Crippin' WhatsApp's Interaction Design: Learnings from the blind/visually impaired users of India

  Hrittika Bhowmick, Atharva Shrivastava, Sandeep Ysp, Shilpaa Anand, Dipanjan Chakraborty (2025) — Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2025)

  This paper examines how blind and visually impaired users in India navigate WhatsApp, using critical disability studies and Roland Barthes' concept of myth to argue that WhatsApp's design naturalizes visual interaction as universal while marginalizin…

  • screen readers
  • blind users
  • social media accessibility
  • Global South accessibility
  • critical disability studies
  • mobile accessibility
  • interaction design
  • digital divide

• What Is the Point of Fairness? Disability, AI and the Complexity of Justice

  Cynthia L. Bennett, Os Keyes (2020) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper offers a critical disability studies challenge to the dominant "fairness" framing of AI ethics, arguing that fairness is insufficient and potentially harmful when applied to disability, and that justice must be centred instead. Drawing on …

  • AI fairness
  • disability justice
  • critical disability studies
  • computer vision
  • autism diagnosis
  • surveillance
  • medicalization
  • intersectionality
  • structural oppression