Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

• Overcoming the New Accessibility Challenges Using the Sweet Framework

  Gollapudi VRJ Sai Prasad, T. B. Dinesh, Venkatesh Choppella (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper argues for a broader definition of web accessibility that extends beyond disability to encompass linguistic, socio-cultural, and cognitive barriers faced by all users, a concept the authors call "New Accessibility." The research proposes a…

  • web inclusion
  • crowdsourcing
  • renarration
  • linguistic accessibility
  • cultural accessibility
  • cognitive accessibility
  • metadata
  • collaborative annotation
  • semantic web

• Adaptable User Interfaces for People with Autism: A Transportation Example

  Claudia De Los Rios Perez (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This demonstration paper presents early-stage research into developing an accessibility framework for adaptable user interfaces tailored to people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), using public transportation as the application domain. The author …

  • autism
  • adaptive user interface
  • transportation accessibility
  • ontology
  • semantic web
  • user interface design
  • cognitive accessibility
  • personalization
  • eye tracking
  • map accessibility
  • web accessibility
  • responsive design

• Using Ontologies as a Foundation for Web Accessibility Tools

  Jens Pelzetter (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This extended abstract proposes using formal ontologies — machine-readable knowledge representations using languages like OWL (Web Ontology Language) — as the foundation for web accessibility tools, addressing two major problems: supporting developer…

  • web accessibility
  • ontologies
  • WCAG
  • knowledge representation
  • automated testing
  • semantic web
  • OWL
  • accessibility evaluation
  • developer tools