Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
21 results found tagged intersectionality.
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Complex Dynamics: Disability, Assistive Technology, and the LGBTQIA+ Community Center Experience in the United States
This paper explores the experiences of LGBTQIA+ individuals with disabilities in community centers in the United States, focusing on the role of assistive technology (AT) in these spaces. The researchers conducted 11 semi-structured interviews (60-90…
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Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability and Accessibility
This paper argues that accessibility research has systematically overlooked race as a meaningful construct, treating it at best as a shallow demographic variable while studying disability in isolation. The authors — a racially diverse team from Carne…
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A11yFutures: Envisioning the Future of Accessibility Research
This workshop paper proposes a framework for understanding the evolution of accessibility research through three "waves" and argues that the field needs to broaden significantly into what the authors call "third wave accessibility." The first wave of…
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Bridging the Gap: Towards Advancing Privacy and Accessibility
This workshop proposal addresses a critical but understudied gap between the accessibility and privacy research communities. The authors argue that while all technology has privacy implications, accessibility tools carry particularly overlooked priva…
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"I Am Human, Just Like You": What Intersectional, Neurodivergent Lived Experiences Bring to Accessibility Research
This paper uses critical autoethnography to examine how intersectional identities shape the experience of neurodivergence, drawing on the author's personal journey of discovering, accepting, and valuing their autism and ADHD diagnoses as a cisgender,…
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Minor Resistance: The Everyday Politics and Power Dynamics of Assistive Technology Adoption
This paper proposes a power-aware framework for understanding assistive technology adoption that moves beyond the traditional "fit" model, where adoption signals good fit between device and user while abandonment signals poor fit. Drawing from an eig…
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Participant Recruitment in Accessibility Research
This workshop paper addresses the critical but underexplored challenge of recruiting participants with disabilities for accessibility research. Grounded in the principle "Nothing about us without us," the paper argues that including people with disab…
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"As Someone Who is Disabled, I am so thankful for Sex Work": Alternative Approaches to Access Among Disabled Sex-Workers
This paper investigates the access strategies developed by disabled sex workers, a population at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. Through 12 semi-structured interviews with disabled individuals engaged in various forms of sex wor…
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Modeling Accessibility: Characterizing What We Mean by "Accessible"
This paper tackles a fundamental gap in accessibility research: the field lacks a clear, shared characterization of what "accessibility" actually means. While accessibility research aims to use technology to make the world more accessible to disabled…
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Disability Intimacy in HCI: Defining a Community-Driven Research Agenda
This workshop paper proposes a half-day virtual workshop at ASSETS 2025 to define a community-driven research agenda for "Disability Intimacy in HCI" — a field the authors argue has been vastly underexplored in accessibility research. The organizers,…