Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
749 results found tagged assistive technology.
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As Content and Layout Co-Evolve: TangibleSite for Scaffolding Blind People's Webpage Design through Multimodal Interaction
This CHI 2026 paper investigates how blind designers can author webpages end-to-end — generating content and arranging layout iteratively — rather than being limited to either content entry or layout inspection. The authors ran two rounds of co-desig…
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I'm Always a Little Skeptical of It: Verification Practices of Blind Users When Working with Generative AI in Spreadsheets
This CHI 2026 paper reports a remote study with 12 blind screen reader users (11 totally blind, 1 legally blind) examining how they verify outputs produced by Generative AI tools when working on accuracy-critical spreadsheet tasks. Spreadsheets are p…
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Do-It-Yourself AAC: Co-Designing User-Programmable AI Communication Tools with People with Aphasia
Lee and Valencia explore how people with aphasia (PWA) can become designers of their own AI-powered augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) tools rather than users of rigid, pre-built systems. The authors note that aphasia, a language disord…
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From Struggle to Success: Context-Aware Guidance for Screen Reader Users in Computer Use
Chen, Lu, Wang, Qiu, Chen and Yang present AskEase, an NVDA add-on that delivers on-demand, step-by-step, screen-reader-friendly guidance for blind and low-vision computer users tackling unfamiliar desktop software. The work responds to a persistent …
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Belonging in the Making: Investigating Inclusive Makerspace Design for Youth with Autism
Zhang, Sakowicz, Wingeart, and Hamidi investigate how makerspaces — the hands-on, technology-rich learning environments that have become common in libraries, schools, and community centres — can be designed to genuinely include youth with autism, rat…
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"We Figure It Out Together": A Framework for Relational Communication in Disabled and Neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ Romantic Partnerships
Crawford and Hamidi investigate how disabled and neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ romantic partners collaboratively build and sustain communication practices over time, an area largely overlooked in HCI research that has tended to focus on single points in ti…
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Infrastructuring for Access: Co-Designing Writing Tools with a Dyslexic Academic
Wang and Marie propose Infrastructuring for Access, a design approach that weaves together HCI's infrastructuring theory (Star, Pipek, Ruhleder) with Disability Studies' critique of ableism and with Repair Studies. Unlike Universal Design and Ability…
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Towards Accessible Mobility Support: User-Centered Design of a Passive, Multi-Functional, Low-Cost Knee Exoskeleton
Lin et al. (Carnegie Mellon) propose a fully passive, unpowered knee exoskeleton that aims to sit in the gap between two unsatisfying options currently available to people with mobility impairments: static knee-ankle-foot orthoses (KAFOs), which are …
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When Assistive Technologies become Provocations: Unpacking Access in HCI practices using Crip Technoscience, Mouth Interfaces, and XR
This CHI 2026 paper reframes assistive technology as political provocation rather than technical fix. Developed in long-term collaboration with two disabled artists - Eric Desrosiers (muscular dystrophy) and Christian Bayerlein (spinal muscular atrop…
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Resilience to Disruption: Accessible Navigation for People with Visual Impairment
This paper investigates how people with visual impairments (PwVI) actually navigate urban environments, especially during severe weather events such as snowstorms, high winds, and icy conditions, and how digital navigation technologies do or do not s…