Literature Reviews

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

• Disqualified by Disability: The Exclusion of Disabled Workers by Digitized Hiring Assessments

  Michal Luria, Matthew U. Scherer, Ariana Aboulafia, Dhanaraj Thakur (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Luria, Scherer, Aboulafia, and Thakur — researchers at the Center for Democracy and Technology — conduct a qualitative, human-centered study of how "digitized assessments" (personality tests, gamified cognitive tests, situational judgement tests, emo…

  • AI hiring
  • algorithmic hiring
  • digitized assessments
  • automated employment decision systems
  • AEDT
  • employment discrimination
  • gamified assessment
  • video interview
  • disability justice
  • access labor
  • accessibility barriers

• Surveilling Suitability: How AI Hiring Interviews Impact Job Seekers with Disabilities

  Vaishnav Kameswaran, Valentina Hong, Jazmin Clark, Yu Hou, Hal Daumé III, Katie Shilton (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper reports a qualitative study of how AI-driven hiring interview platforms — asynchronous video interview tools (e.g., HireVue) that use AI to score candidates on facial expressions, vocal cues, and behavioural data — are perceived a…

  • disability
  • AI hiring
  • surveillance
  • algorithmic bias
  • employment
  • AI fairness
  • privacy
  • disability disclosure
  • workplace accessibility
  • automated video interview