Literature Reviews

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

• An Ecosystem of Support: A U.S. State Government-Supported DIY-AT Program for Residents with Disabilities

  Erin Higgins, Marie E Sakowicz, Foad Hamidi (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper documents an Action Research study in which the authors collaborated with the Maryland Department of Disabilities (MDOD) to launch and study a state-level Do-It-Yourself Assistive Technology (DIY-AT) program. The program connected people w…

  • assistive technology
  • DIY
  • digital fabrication
  • 3D printing
  • makerspaces
  • action research
  • government policy
  • disability services
  • ecosystem model

• Dude, Where's My Luggage? An Autoethnographic Account of Airport Navigation by a Traveler with Residual Vision

  Cameron Tyler Cassidy, Stacy Marie Branham (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents an autoethnographic study of airport navigation by a legally blind traveler with residual vision, conducted across eight round-trips through six U.S. airports. The first author, Cameron, who has Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy r…

  • visual impairment
  • low vision
  • residual vision
  • indoor navigation
  • wayfinding
  • airport accessibility
  • autoethnography
  • assistive technology

• WheelPoser: Sparse-IMU Based Body Pose Estimation for Wheelchair Users

  Yunzhi Li, Vimal Mollyn, Kuang Yuan, Patrick Carrington (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents WheelPoser, a real-time body pose estimation system designed specifically for wheelchair users using only four inertial measurement units (IMUs). Existing pose estimation methods are largely developed for standing and ambulatory u…

  • wheelchair users
  • pose estimation
  • inertial measurement units
  • motion capture
  • body tracking
  • health monitoring
  • assistive technology
  • machine learning

• Receptive Design Methodologies: Human-Centered Design methodologies receptive to adaptation, accessibility and inclusion

  Apoorva Avadhana (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This short paper proposes a set of new design methodologies that bridge the gaps between Human-Centred Design (HCD), accessibility research, disability studies, occupational therapy (OT), and assistive technology (AT) development. The author argues t…

  • design methods
  • assistive technology
  • inclusive design
  • occupational therapy
  • adaptation
  • activities of daily living

• Towards Designing Digital Learning Tools for Students with Cortical/Cerebral Visual Impairments: Leveraging Insights from Teachers of the Visually Impaired

  Adele Smolansky, Miranda Yang, Shiri Azenkot (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This paper investigates how digital learning tools should be designed to support students with cortical/cerebral visual impairment (CVI), a neurological condition that affects the brain's ability to process visual information rather than the eyes the…

  • cortical visual impairment
  • education
  • digital learning tools
  • visual impairment
  • assistive technology
  • children

• Self-supervised learning using unlabeled speech with multiple types of speech disorder for disordered speech recognition

  Ryoichi Takashima, Takeru Otani, Ryo Aihara, Tetsuya Takiguchi, Shinya Taguchi (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2024)

  This paper tackles a critical barrier in accessible speech technology: automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems perform poorly for people with speech disorders because they are trained almost exclusively on typical speech. The authors from Kobe Uni…

  • speech recognition
  • speech disorders
  • machine learning
  • self-supervised learning
  • assistive technology
  • cerebral palsy
  • dysarthria

• Self-Adapting User Interfaces as Assistive Technology for Handheld Mobile Devices

  Robert Dodd (2006) — Assets '06: Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper addresses a fundamental challenge in mobile device accessibility: the limitations of bolt-on assistive technology solutions for handheld devices. Published at Assets '06, the premier ACM conference on accessible computing, it proposes a pa…

  • mobile accessibility
  • self-adapting interfaces
  • assistive technology
  • user modeling
  • design space

• The CISNA model of accessible adaptive hypermedia

  Robert Dodd, Steve Green, Elaine Pearson (2008) — Proceedings of the 2008 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper presents CISNA (Content, Inventory, Semantics, Navigation, Adaptation), a five-layer document model designed to make web content adaptable to individual user needs and capabilities. The research addresses a fundamental problem: as web page…

  • adaptive hypermedia
  • abstract user interface
  • hypertext models
  • assistive technology
  • content adaptation

• 20 years on: the Dexter Model of Hypertext and its impact on web accessibility

  Robert Dodd (2008) — SIGACCESS Access. Comput.

  This paper examines the Dexter Reference Model of Hypertext, published in 1988, and asks whether the foundational assumptions it encodes still serve the needs of accessibility twenty years later. The Dexter Model was created as a superset description…

  • hypertext models
  • HTML
  • assistive technology
  • adaptive content
  • web standards