Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
61 results found tagged accessibility.
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A General HCI Framework of Sonification Applications
This paper proposes a general HCI framework for understanding and evaluating sonification applications — software that uses non-speech sound to represent data or information. The authors define sonification as having three main elements: Goal (for un…
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Online Focus Groups Used as an Accessible Participatory Research Method
This paper proposes the use of online focus groups as a method for meaningfully including people with disabilities in participatory research, addressing persistent barriers to their involvement in technology studies. The author situates this work wit…
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Improving Public Transit Accessibility for Blind Riders: A Train Station Navigation Assistant
This short paper presents a prototype iPhone application designed to help blind people navigate inside train stations — an environment where GPS is unavailable and orientation is particularly challenging. The author's motivation comes from interviews…
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Assessing the Deaf User Perspective on Sign Language Avatars
This paper investigates Deaf community attitudes toward sign language avatars — virtual characters that perform sign language — through focus groups and a large-scale online study. Sign language avatars have the potential to make written content acce…
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Manual Evaluation of Synthesised Sign Language Avatars
This poster paper evaluates whether adding emotional facial expressions to sign language avatars improves their comprehension and naturalness for Irish Sign Language (ISL) users. Sign languages convey emotion and prosody primarily through non-manual …
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Legion Scribe: Real-Time Captioning by Non-Experts
This demonstration paper presents Legion:Scribe, a crowd-powered captioning system that enables groups of 3-5 non-expert typists to collectively produce real-time captions with less than 5 seconds of latency. The system addresses the prohibitive cost…
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Gauging Receptiveness to Social Microvolunteering
This paper introduces the concept of social microvolunteering — a hybrid of friendsourcing and microvolunteering where volunteers install an application that posts microtasks to their social media feeds, enabling their friends to contribute to causes…
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Real-Time Captioning with the Crowd
This article presents Scribe, a crowdsourced real-time captioning system that allows groups of non-expert typists to collectively produce captions at the speed of natural speech — a task that normally requires highly trained professional stenographer…
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Anticipate and Adjust: Cultivating Access in Human-Centered Methods
This paper investigates how accessibility experts make human-centered research methods accessible for both disabled participants and disabled facilitators. Through 17 interviews with US and Canadian accessibility experts (13 researchers and 4 communi…
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Conversational Agency in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This paper introduces conversational agency as a new framework for studying how augmented communicators (ACs) — people who use AAC devices to speak — participate in and influence conversations. While prior AAC research has focused primarily on improv…