Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
75 results found tagged qualitative research.
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A Support Worker Perspective on Use of New Technologies by People with Intellectual Disabilities
This qualitative study examines how support workers and managers at Australian disability community day centres perceive and facilitate technology use by people with intellectual disabilities. The researchers interviewed 15 support workers and 5 mana…
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Understanding How Sensory Changes Experienced by Individuals with a Range of Age-Related Cognitive Changes Can Affect Technology Use
This qualitative study investigates how sensory changes experienced by people with age-related cognitive changes—including dementia, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and subjective cognitive decline (SCD)—affect their technology use. The researchers …
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It could be better. It could be much worse: Understanding Accessibility in User Experience Practice with Implications for Industry and Education
This qualitative study examines how accessibility is understood and practiced within the UX profession through 58 interview sessions with 65 senior UX professionals conducted between 2017 and 2020. Using transitivity analysis from critical discourse …
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Understanding the Usages, Lifecycle, and Opportunities of Screen Readers' Plugins
This study investigates why blind users rely on screen reader plugins and how these plugins are developed, distributed, and maintained. The researchers combined two methodological approaches: semi-structured interviews with 14 blind participants (age…
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How the Alt Text Gets Made: What Roles and Processes of Alt Text Creation Can Teach Us About Inclusive Imagery
This paper investigates how alternative text is created in industry settings through a collaboration between UC Irvine researchers and Google's Avatar Project, an initiative to create inclusive stickers depicting people with disabilities. The researc…
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Digital Accessibility Education in Context: Expert Perspectives on Building Capacity in Academia and the Workplace
This substantial qualitative study examines how socio-cultural contexts shape digital accessibility education in both academic and workplace settings. The researchers engaged 55 experienced accessibility educators through an expert panel method (30 p…
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I Don't Want to Sound Rude, but It's None of Their Business: Exploring Security and Privacy Concerns around Assistive Technology Use in Educational Settings
This qualitative study investigates the security and privacy concerns of students with disabilities who use assistive technology (AT) in higher education settings. The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with 8 students who use various f…
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The Invisible Work of Accessibility: How Blind Employees Manage Accessibility in Mixed-Ability Workplaces
This qualitative field study examines how blind employees navigate accessibility in shared office environments where they work alongside sighted colleagues. The researchers conducted a multi-session study with five blind office workers (ages 25-54) a…
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Narratives of Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment and Their Caregivers
This paper examines how the narratives — the stories people tell about their lives and experiences — of older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and their spousal caregivers shape and are shaped by technology in the home. MCI is defined as a…
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Technology-Mediated Sight: A Case Study of Early Adopters of a Low Vision Assistive Technology
This qualitative case study examines the psychosocial and adaptive experiences of early adopters of the eSight 2.0 — a head-mounted assistive device for people with low vision that captures live video and displays enhanced images on high-resolution O…