Literature Reviews

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

• Accessibility in AI-Assisted Web Development

  Peya Mowar (2024) — Proceedings of the 21st International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This extended abstract from a CMU doctoral student examines whether AI code generation tools—specifically GitHub Copilot—help or hinder web accessibility when used by developers. The research is motivated by a persistent problem: despite decades of a…

  • AI code generation
  • web accessibility
  • developer practices
  • GitHub Copilot
  • automated testing
  • WCAG compliance

• When LLM-Generated Code Perpetuates User Interface Accessibility Barriers, How Can We Break the Cycle?

  Alexandra-Elena Gurita, Radu-Daniel Vatavu (2025) — Proceedings of the 22nd International Web for All Conference (W4A 2025)

  This paper evaluates the ability of large language models (LLMs) to generate accessible web user interfaces, comparing ChatGPT (GPT-4-turbo) and Claude (3.5 Haiku) across two prompting strategies: accessibility-agnostic prompts ("Design the homepage …

  • large language models
  • WCAG compliance
  • automated accessibility
  • prompt engineering
  • code generation
  • AI accessibility