Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
51 results found tagged higher education.
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Disability, ICT and eLearning Platforms: Faculty-Facing Embedded Work Tools in Learning Management Systems
This paper presents preliminary findings from a longitudinal study of the accessibility of the Canvas learning management system (LMS) for faculty with visual disabilities. What makes this study distinctive is its focus on the faculty-facing interfac…
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Evaluating Instructor Strategy and Student Learning Through Digital Accessibility Course Enhancements
This paper evaluates the Teach Access Curriculum Development Awards program, an initiative by the Teach Access consortium (comprising 10 industry partners including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook, 5 advocacy groups, and 20 university partners) to in…
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Navigating Graduate School with a Disability
This paper presents a three-person autoethnography by computer science Ph.D. students at the University of Washington, each with a different disability: Dhruv Jain (hard of hearing, congenital bilateral sensorineural hearing loss), Venkatesh Potluri …
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Understanding Disability Services Toward Improving Graduate Student Support
While approximately 19.5% of U.S. undergraduate students have disabilities, only about 7% of graduate students self-identify as disabled, and just 5.5% of computing doctorate recipients report disabilities. This steep drop-off suggests systemic barri…
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Implementing an Accessible Conversational User Interface: Applying Feedback from University Students and Disability Support Advisors
This paper presents results from a beta trial of the ADMINS (Assistants for the Disclosure and Management of Information about Needs and Support) virtual assistant, developed at The Open University (UK) to help students disclose disabilities and rece…
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Accessible Communication and Materials in Higher Education
This doctoral consortium paper from a researcher at the University of Washington proposes a dissertation addressing two core areas of inaccessibility in higher education: inaccessible course materials (particularly slideshow presentations) and the br…
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Teaching accessibility as a shared endeavour: building capacity across academic and workplace contexts
This short paper reports on qualitative research with 30 expert accessibility educators from academia and the workplace, drawn from a larger study called "Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set" (2019-2024). Using expert panel method — a par…
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The Use of ADKAR to Instil Change in the Accessibility of University Websites
This short paper applies the ADKAR change management model — Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, and Reinforcement — to understand what interventions are needed to improve web accessibility at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) in Switzerland. The a…
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A Case for Improving the Accessibility of Electrical and Computer Engineering Education -- Starting with a Blind Student's Autoethnography
This short paper presents an autoethnographic account of Trisha Kulkarni, the first blind student to complete the introductory electrical and computer engineering (ECE) and making course (E40M) at Stanford University. The course is a required eight-t…
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Towards a Social Justice Aligned Makerspace: Co-designing Custom Assistive Technology within a University Ecosystem
This paper explores how university makerspaces can serve as sites for co-designing custom Do-It-Yourself assistive technology (DIY-AT) while simultaneously engaging with social justice issues faced by students with disabilities. Conducted at the Univ…