Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
41 results found tagged user-centered design.
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User requirement analysis for a railway ticketing portal with emphasis on semantic accessibility for older users
This paper investigates the user requirements of older adults using an online railway ticketing portal operated by a nationwide Austrian railway company. The researchers employed a mixed-methods approach combining a large-scale online questionnaire (…
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Subjective Evaluation of Website Accessibility and Usability: A Survey for People with Sensory Disabilities
This paper presents a novel subjective evaluation model for assessing web accessibility and usability from the perspective of students with sensory disabilities, applied to Australian university websites. The model integrates accessibility criteria f…
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Designing Personalized Therapy Tools for People with Dementia
This paper presents the iterative design and clinical deployment of Scrapbook, a web platform that supports psychologists in conducting personalized reminiscence therapy and cognitive stimulation sessions for people with dementia using biographical m…
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Evaluation of a Prototype Interactive Working Memory Application for Children with Learning Disabilities
This short paper presents an expert evaluation of a prototype working memory training application designed specifically for children aged 7-9 with learning disabilities. The application was built using a novel design framework that integrates three d…
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MusA: Artwork Accessibility through Augmented Reality for People with Low Vision
This paper presents MusA (Museo Accessibile), an iOS mobile application that uses augmented reality to make 2D visual artworks in museums accessible to people with low vision. The research addresses the persistent problem that people with visual impa…
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Designing Gestures for Digital Musical Instruments: Gesture Elicitation Study with Deaf and Hard of Hearing People
This study addresses a gap in how deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) people can enjoy playing musical instruments using smartphones. While DHH people can and do enjoy music — often sensing it through vibrations transmitted by instruments or through body …
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Embodied Exploration: Facilitating Remote Accessibility Assessment for Wheelchair Users with Virtual Reality
This paper presents Embodied Exploration, a Virtual Reality system that allows wheelchair users to remotely assess the accessibility of unfamiliar physical environments by exploring high-fidelity digital replicas while embodied by personalized avatar…
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Participatory Design for Cognitive Accessibility of Web-based Interactive Systems
This doctoral consortium paper outlines a PhD research program aimed at addressing the significant underrepresentation of cognitive accessibility in web accessibility research. The author notes that while cognitive disabilities account for a 28% shar…
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A Universal Web Accessibility Feedback Form: A Participatory Design Study
This paper addresses a gap in web accessibility practice: while automated testing tools can catch structural violations, they cannot reliably assess the quality of alternative text, the usability of dynamic content, or many other issues that only hum…
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XRMusic4VIP: Enabling Simultaneous Sheet Music Reading and Playing for Visually Impaired Musicians through Extended Reality
This paper addresses a largely unexplored challenge in music accessibility: enabling visually impaired musicians to simultaneously read sheet music and play keyboard instruments. While assistive technologies for visually impaired musicians exist—incl…