Literature Reviews

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

• Disclosure of Neurodivergence in Software Workplaces: a Mixed Methods Study of Forum and Survey Perspectives

  Kaia Newman, Sarah Snay, Madeline Endres, Manasvi Parikh, Andrew Begel (2025) — ASSETS 2025: 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents a large-scale mixed-methods study examining how neurodivergent software developers navigate the decision to disclose their neurodivergence at work. The researchers combined qualitative analysis of 99 posts and their comments from …

  • neurodiversity
  • disability disclosure
  • workplace accessibility
  • ADHD
  • autism
  • mental health
  • software engineering
  • mixed methods
  • stigma
  • masking

• Beyond Accessibility: Understanding the Ease of Use and Impacts of Digital Collaboration Tools for Blind and Low Vision Workers

  Taslima Akter, Aparajita S Marathe, Darren Gergle, Anne Marie Piper (2025) — ASSETS '25: Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents results from a large-scale online survey of 155 blind and low vision (BLV) screen reader users, evaluating the ease of use of 30 widely used digital collaboration tools across five categories: videoconferencing, asynchronous messa…

  • blind and low vision
  • workplace accessibility
  • collaboration tools
  • screen readers
  • employment
  • usability