Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
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StateLens: A Reverse Engineering Solution for Making Existing Dynamic Touchscreens Accessible
This paper presents StateLens, a three-part system that makes existing dynamic touchscreen interfaces accessible to blind users without requiring any modification to the touchscreen hardware or software. Blind people routinely encounter inaccessible …
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Anticipate and Adjust: Cultivating Access in Human-Centered Methods
This paper investigates how accessibility experts make human-centered research methods accessible for both disabled participants and disabled facilitators. Through 17 interviews with US and Canadian accessibility experts (13 researchers and 4 communi…
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Conversational Agency in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
This paper introduces conversational agency as a new framework for studying how augmented communicators (ACs) — people who use AAC devices to speak — participate in and influence conversations. While prior AAC research has focused primarily on improv…
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Making the Web Easier to See with Opportunistic Accessibility Improvement
This paper introduces the concept of "opportunistic accessibility improvement" — the idea that accessibility enhancements like magnification should be automatically applied to the maximum extent possible without causing negative side effects. The aut…
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ScratchThat: Supporting Command-Agnostic Speech Repair in Voice-Driven Assistants
This paper presents ScratchThat, a command-agnostic speech repair system for voice-driven virtual assistants that allows users to naturally correct voice commands without repeating entire queries. Current voice assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant…
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Accessibility and The Crowded Sidewalk: Micromobility's Impact on Public Space
This paper examines how micromobility devices — e-scooters, dockless bikes, and autonomous personal delivery devices (PDDs) — impact the accessibility of public sidewalks and pathways for people with disabilities. Drawing on 24 semi-structured interv…
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"It's Complicated": Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender, and Disability
This qualitative study investigates how screen reader users who are also Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), non-binary, and/or transgender navigate the complex landscape of image descriptions, particularly regarding how appearance characteri…
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From User Perceptions to Technical Improvement: Enabling People Who Stutter to Better Use Speech Recognition
This paper investigates how people who stutter (PWS) experience consumer speech recognition systems and demonstrates technical improvements that can significantly reduce errors. The work combines user research with engineering interventions across th…
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Automated Class Discovery and One-Shot Interactions for Acoustic Activity Recognition
This paper presents Listen Learner, an end-to-end system for acoustic activity recognition that automatically discovers and learns to classify environmental sounds with minimal user effort. Traditional approaches to sound recognition face a tradeoff:…
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Co-designing Socially Assistive Sidekicks for Motion-based AAC
This paper explores how socially assistive robots, framed as "sidekicks," could provide AAC users with a nonverbal channel of communication to support their conversational goals. While AAC devices enable speech-based communication through synthesized…