Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
31 results found tagged accessibility research.
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A Large User Pool for Accessibility Research with Representative Users
This paper reports on the creation and management of the SiDE (Social Inclusion in the Digital Economy) User Pool at the University of Dundee, Scotland — a pool of over 800 older adults and people with disabilities established between 2009 and 2014 t…
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The FATE Landscape of Sign Language AI Datasets: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
This interdisciplinary paper examines the ethical landscape of AI datasets used for sign language recognition, generation, and translation technologies. Drawing on expertise from deaf community members, sign language linguists, and AI researchers, th…
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Usage of Subjective Scales in Accessibility Research
This methodological paper investigates whether positive response bias affects subjective ratings in accessibility research—a critical concern given that Likert-type items are widely used to evaluate assistive technologies. The authors pursued two com…
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Volunteer-Based Online Studies With Older Adults and People with Disabilities
This paper validates volunteer-based online experiments as a methodology for conducting large-scale accessibility research with people with disabilities and older adults — populations that are notoriously difficult to recruit for laboratory studies. …
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Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design
This paper presents a reflexive autoethnographic analysis by three accessibility researchers (Hofmann, Mankoff, Bennett) and one disability studies scholar (Kasnitz), all of whom are disabled, examining how their lived experiences of disability inter…
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Deinstitutionalizing Independence: Discourses of Disability and Housing in Accessible Computing
This paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine how the history of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization in the United States shapes contemporary Accessible Computing (AC) research focused on domestic spaces. The authors analyz…
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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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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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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…