Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
9 results found tagged AI.
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How Multimodal Large Language Models Support Access to Visual Information: A Diary Study With Blind and Low Vision People
This CHI 2026 paper reports a two-week diary study with 20 Blind and Low Vision (BLV) participants (ages 19–75, 11 female/9 male, 13 blind/7 low vision) investigating how multimodal large language models (MLLMs) support real-world access to visual in…
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The ORBIT India Dataset: Understanding the Challenges of Collecting a Disability-First AI Dataset in Low-Resource Environments
This paper introduces ORBIT-India, the first teachable object recognition dataset contributed entirely by people who are blind or have low vision in India. It extends the UK/Canada-collected ORBIT dataset (Massiceti et al., 2021) to the Indian contex…
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From Struggle to Success: Context-Aware Guidance for Screen Reader Users in Computer Use
Chen, Lu, Wang, Qiu, Chen and Yang present AskEase, an NVDA add-on that delivers on-demand, step-by-step, screen-reader-friendly guidance for blind and low-vision computer users tackling unfamiliar desktop software. The work responds to a persistent …
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SceneScout: Towards AI-Driven Access to Street Level Imagery for Blind Users
Jain, Findlater and Gleason present SceneScout, a prototype web interface that uses a multimodal large language model (GPT-4o) to make street level imagery — the panoramic pedestrian-height photography behind Apple Maps Look Around and Google Street …
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"Computer Says No": Disabled Welfare Experiences and Envisioned Futures Under AI Governance
Curtis and colleagues investigate how people with aphasia — a language impairment most often caused by stroke that affects reading, writing, speech, and comprehension — experience the increasingly digitised and AI-automated UK welfare state, and how …
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"We Figure It Out Together": A Framework for Relational Communication in Disabled and Neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ Romantic Partnerships
Crawford and Hamidi investigate how disabled and neurodivergent LGBTQIA+ romantic partners collaboratively build and sustain communication practices over time, an area largely overlooked in HCI research that has tended to focus on single points in ti…
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Image Recognition Tools for Blind and Visually Impaired Users: An Emphasis on the Design Considerations
This research examines the current landscape of image recognition tools (IRT) designed for blind and visually impaired users, evaluating their capabilities against user needs and ISO ergonomic design standards. The authors conducted both a comprehens…
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Sharing Practices for Datasets Related to Accessibility and Aging
This paper presents a systematic review of 137 accessibility datasets collected from people with disabilities and older adults over a 35-year period (1984-2020). The authors undertook an extensive two-year search process using a multilayer strategy: …
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The Potential of a Visual Dialogue Agent In a Tandem Automated Audio Description System for Videos
This paper presents and evaluates a tandem AI-based audio description (AD) system for videos that combines two complementary tools: NarrationBot, which delivers automated minimum viable descriptions (MVD) of video content, and InfoBot, a visual dialo…