Literature Reviews

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

• Uncovering the New Accessibility Crisis in Scholarly PDFs: Publishing Model and Platform Changes Contribute to Declining Scholarly Document Accessibility in the Last Decade

  Anukriti Kumar, Lucy Lu Wang (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents a large-scale analysis of 20,000 scholarly PDFs published between 2014 and 2023 to characterise the scope and trajectory of document accessibility in academic publishing. Most scholarly works are distributed as PDFs, a format that…

  • PDF accessibility
  • scholarly publishing
  • document accessibility
  • screen readers
  • tagged PDF
  • alt text
  • open access
  • automated testing
  • large-scale analysis