Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
28 results found tagged disability justice.
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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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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,…
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The Blind Leading the Blind: Designing a Co-Creation Workshop for Visually Impaired and Sighted Participants by a Visually Impaired Researcher
This short paper presents a first-person reflective account from a severely sight impaired researcher (the first author, registered with the UK NHS as severely sight impaired, with approximately 3 metres of usable vision) on the experience of plannin…
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Exploring Disability Culture Through Accounts of Disabled Innovators of Accessibility Technology
This paper explores how disability culture — the celebration of the positive aspects of disability experience including community, solidarity, and creativity — can inform the design and research of accessibility technologies. The authors first synthe…
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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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What Is the Point of Fairness? Disability, AI and the Complexity of Justice
This paper offers a critical disability studies challenge to the dominant "fairness" framing of AI ethics, arguing that fairness is insufficient and potentially harmful when applied to disability, and that justice must be centred instead. Drawing on …
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Envisioning Collective Communication Access: A Theoretically-Grounded Review of Captioning Literature from 2013-2023
This paper synthesises thinking from four fields — disability studies, Deaf studies, disability justice, and communication studies — into a framework of collective communication access, then uses it to analyse a decade of HCI captioning research (201…