Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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Accept or Address? Researchers' Perspectives on Response Bias in Accessibility Research
Response bias — the tendency for participant responses to be skewed by factors beyond the actual research questions — is a concern in all human-subjects research, but it takes on unique dimensions in accessibility research. Ming et al. conducted semi…
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Beyond Adaptive Sports: Challenges & Opportunities to Improve Accessibility and Analytics
While sports data analytics has become a multi-billion dollar industry transforming training, strategy, and refereeing in able-bodied sports, adaptive sports have been largely left behind by this technological revolution. Khurana et al. interviewed 1…
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How Online Tests Contribute to the Support System for People With Cognitive and Mental Disabilities
Approximately one in three people worldwide experience a cognitive or mental disability at some point in their lives, yet significant barriers — cost, lack of insurance, transportation, stigma, family resistance, and not knowing where to seek help — …
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Going Beyond One-Size-Fits-All Image Descriptions to Satisfy the Information Wants of People Who are Blind or Have Low Vision
Current image description practices typically produce a single, one-size-fits-all description for each image, yet the same image can appear across vastly different contexts — news websites, e-commerce platforms, social media feeds, travel sites, and …
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Auditory feedback to compensate audible instructions to support people with visual impairment
This doctoral consortium extended abstract addresses a practical challenge faced by people with visual impairments who rely on auditory feedback from mobile devices: background noise in real-world mobility contexts can mask device audio output, degra…
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American Sign Language Video Anonymization to Support Online Participation of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users
Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) individuals who prefer to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL) face a unique privacy barrier online: because ASL is a visual language conveyed through movements of the face, head, hands, and torso, and because th…
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Understanding Screen-Reader Users' Experiences with Online Data Visualizations
Data visualizations are ubiquitous on the web, communicating everything from health statistics to financial trends, yet their inherently visual nature creates profound barriers for the approximately 7.6 million screen-reader users in the United State…
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Nearmi: A Framework for Designing Point of Interest Techniques for VR Users with Limited Mobility
Virtual reality presents significant accessibility barriers for people with limited mobility, yet relatively little research has addressed how to make VR navigation and exploration usable for this population. Franz et al. introduce Nearmi, a design f…
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Accessing Passersby Proxemic Signals through a Head-Worn Camera: Opportunities and Limitations for the Blind
This paper explores the potential and limitations of using head-worn cameras with computer vision to help blind people access proxemic signals — the spatial behaviour of nearby people that sighted individuals perceive visually, such as someone's pres…
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Lost in Translation: Challenges and Barriers to Sign Language-Accessible User Research
This experience report describes the challenges hearing researchers face when conducting user research with sign language (SL) users, based on the authors' experience running remote focus groups with German Sign Language (GSL) users as part of the AV…