Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
43 results found tagged digital divide.
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The National Accessibility Portal: An Accessible Information Sharing Portal for the South African Disability Sector
This paper from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in Pretoria describes the development of South Africa's National Accessibility Portal (NAP), a five-year research and development initiative led by the Meraka Institute in part…
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A Survey of Technology Accessibility Problems Faced by Older Users in China
This paper presents the broadest survey of web accessibility for older users conducted in China at the time, with 180 valid responses from participants across all 25 Chinese provinces. The web-based questionnaire was supplemented with in-person discu…
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Designing for Auditory Web Access: Accessibility and Cellphone Users
This paper draws a parallel between two groups of web users who experience the web primarily through auditory rather than visual interaction: people with visual impairments using screen readers, and people in developing regions accessing the web thro…
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Age and Web Access: The Next Generation
This paper challenges the common assumption that technology difficulties experienced by older adults are a fixed characteristic of aging that will naturally disappear as tech-savvy younger generations grow old. Hanson argues that the relationship bet…
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Exploring Web Accessibility Solutions in Developing Regions as Innovations for the Benefit of All
Written by two leaders of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative, this paper explores the particular web accessibility challenges facing people with disabilities in developing regions and argues that solving these challenges will drive innovations bene…
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The Spoken Web Application Framework: User Generated Content and Service Creation through Low-End Mobiles
This paper from IBM Research India presents the Spoken Web Application Framework (SWAF), a platform that expands the definition of "Web" itself to include voice-based hyperlinked content accessible through ordinary telephone calls. At the time of pub…
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Remote IT Education for Senior Citizens
This paper addresses the challenge of teaching IT skills to senior citizens in Japan, where the elderly population ratio has reached 25% nationally and up to 40% in some regions. The authors identified that peer teaching — skilled seniors teaching un…
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Usability, Demography, and Directions for W4A
This provocative keynote paper from Alan Newell at the University of Dundee challenges the web accessibility community to broaden its focus beyond technical compliance for people with sensory and motor disabilities to address the much larger populati…
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LMS Weds WhatsApp: Bridging Digital Divide Using MIMs
This paper from Xerox Research Centre India reports on a three-month longitudinal field study integrating WhatsApp with a Learning Management System (TutorSpace) in a private engineering college on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India. The research addr…
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Wearables for All: Development of Guidelines to Stimulate Accessible Wearable Technology Design
This paper from the University of Twente and The Accessibility Foundation (Netherlands) presents the rationale and methodology for developing accessibility guidelines specifically for wearable technology — a domain where no dedicated accessibility st…