Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
75 results found tagged qualitative research.
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Evaluating the Accessibility of the Job Search and Interview Process for People who are Blind and Visually Impaired
This study investigates the accessibility barriers that people who are blind and visually impaired encounter throughout the job search and interview process in the United States, where the unemployment rate for this population stands at approximately…
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Understanding Accessibility as a Process through the Analysis of Feedback from Disabled Students
This paper from The Open University UK analyzes over 6,000 open comment feedback responses from disabled students (out of 93,148 total responses) to argue that accessibility must be understood as an ongoing process rather than a state achieved throug…
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An empirical investigation of the situationally-induced impairments experienced by blind mobile device users
This paper investigates the situationally-induced impairments and disabilities (SIIDs) experienced by blind people when using mobile devices in real-world contexts. While prior SIID research has focused on sighted users encountering temporary impedim…
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Understanding Audio Production Practices of People with Vision Impairments
This paper presents the first detailed empirical study of how people with vision impairments use digital audio production tools in their personal and professional work. Through semi-structured interviews with 18 blind and visually impaired audio prof…
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Understanding In-Situ Use of Commonly Available Navigation Technologies by People with Visual Impairments
This paper presents a qualitative study investigating how people with visual impairments use commonly available navigation technologies in their daily lives. Conducted by researchers at Microsoft Research and the University of Michigan, the study inv…
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Understanding Barriers and Design Opportunities to Improve Healthcare and QOL for Older Adults through Voice Assistants
This paper investigates the barriers older adults face when managing their healthcare and daily routines, and explores how voice-based Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVAs) might address those challenges. The researchers employed a user-centered desi…
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Beyond Fun: Players' Experiences of Accessible Rehabilitation Gaming for Spinal Cord Injury
This paper explores how accessible rehabilitation games can affect the experiences of patients with spinal cord injury beyond simply making exercise more fun. Six participants with spinal cord injury (three with tetraplegia, three with paraplegia, ag…
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What difference does tech make? Conceptualizations of Disability and Assistive Technology among Kenyan Youth
This paper examines how young Kenyans without disabilities conceptualize both disability and assistive technology (AT), addressing a significant gap in accessibility research that has predominantly focused on Global North perspectives. While over 80%…
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Mobile Phone Use by People with Mild to Moderate Dementia: Uncovering Challenges and Identifying Opportunities
This paper investigates how people with mild to moderate dementia use mobile phones in their daily lives, going beyond the common research focus on dementia-specific assistive apps to examine mainstream smartphone use. The authors conducted semi-stru…
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Performing Qualitative Data Analysis as a Blind Researcher: Challenges, Workarounds and Design Recommendations
This short paper provides a first-person account from a blind early-career researcher about the significant accessibility barriers encountered when trying to perform qualitative data analysis (QDA). The author, based at IIIT Bangalore, situates the w…