Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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How Can Assistance and Its Disclosure Promote Fairness in Inclusive Esports?
This paper investigates how skill assistance and its disclosure affect perceptions of fairness in inclusive esports, where players with and without disabilities compete together. The gaming industry's competitive focus has led many commercial titles …
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"Where Can I Park?" Understanding Human Perspectives and Scalably Detecting Disability Parking from Aerial Imagery
This mixed-methods paper addresses the critical gap in understanding and assessing disability parking in the United States. Despite ADA mandates requiring 4-8% of public parking spaces to be accessible, there has been no large-scale investigation of …
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Teaching Accessibility Across Disciplines: Perspectives from ADA Title II
This workshop paper describes an interdisciplinary workshop held at ASSETS 2025 focused on how accessibility is taught across different academic disciplines, with particular attention to the implications of ADA Title II compliance for educational ins…
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Designing Through Lived Experience: Reflections on Control, Embodiment, and Social Bias in Accessibility Research
This paper presents an analytic autoethnography of three accessibility research projects led by the first author, Atieh Taheri, a disabled researcher with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) who has used a wheelchair her entire life. Each project emerged f…
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Improving the Efficacy of Automated Sign Language Practice Tools
This paper describes dissertation research on improving automatic sign language recognition for CopyCat, an interactive computer game that helps young deaf children practice American Sign Language (ASL). The work addresses a critical need: 90% of dea…
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Using Networked Multimedia to Improve Educational Access for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students
This paper proposes a networked multimedia platform to address the specific challenges deaf and hard of hearing students face in mainstream university classrooms. The author identifies three core problems. First, isolation: as more deaf students ente…
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Accessmonkey: Enabling and Sharing End User Accessibility Improvements
This paper proposes the Accessmonkey Framework, a collaborative platform for creating, sharing, and applying user-generated web accessibility improvements. The system addresses the reality that blind users frequently encounter inaccessible web conten…
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Increasing the Accessibility of Pen-Based Technology: An Investigation of Age-Related Target Acquisition Difficulties
This paper describes dissertation research on improving the accessibility of pen-based devices (PDAs, Tablet PCs) for older adults by identifying and addressing the root causes of target acquisition difficulty. The author argues that previous researc…
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Online Support Communities for Older People: Investigating Network Patterns and Characteristics of Social Support
This paper describes a PhD research programme investigating how older people exchange social support in online communities, using SeniorNet's depression discussion board as the primary study site. The author argues that while much accessibility work …
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Enhancing Accessibility through Correction of Speech Recognition Errors
This paper investigates methods for automatically correcting errors in speech recognition-generated captions of university lectures, aiming to improve accessibility for hearing-impaired students. The author notes that while ASR-based captioning can m…