Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
75 results found tagged qualitative research.
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"As Someone Who is Disabled, I am so thankful for Sex Work": Alternative Approaches to Access Among Disabled Sex-Workers
This paper investigates the access strategies developed by disabled sex workers, a population at the intersection of multiple marginalized identities. Through 12 semi-structured interviews with disabled individuals engaged in various forms of sex wor…
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Access Beyond the Score: Understanding Notation Needs and Workflows of Low Vision Musicians
This paper investigates how musicians with low vision acquire, adapt, and use music notation, an area that has received far less research attention than Braille Music for blind musicians. Through semi-structured interviews with 16 low vision musician…
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Modeling Accessibility: Characterizing What We Mean by "Accessible"
This paper tackles a fundamental gap in accessibility research: the field lacks a clear, shared characterization of what "accessibility" actually means. While accessibility research aims to use technology to make the world more accessible to disabled…
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Rethinking Productivity with GenAI: A Neurodivergent Students' Perspective
This qualitative study examines how 19 neurodivergent university students (including those with ADHD, autism, OCD, dysgraphia, and auditory processing disorder) use LLM-based generative AI tools like ChatGPT in their academic work. Through semi-struc…
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"Slipping through the cracks": A Duoethnography of Web Accessibility
This position paper uses duoethnography — a collaborative qualitative method where two researchers examine a shared topic through their contrasting personal experiences — to explore the practical labour of doing web accessibility work. The authors, S…