Literature Reviews

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

• In-Page Navigation Aids for Screen-Reader Users with Automatic Topicalisation and Labelling

  Jorge Sassaki Resende Silva, Paula Christina Figueira Cardoso, Raphael Winckler De Bettio, Daniela Cardoso Tavares, Carlos Alberto Silva, Willian Massami Watanabe, Andre Pimenta Freire (2024) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper addresses a fundamental challenge for screen reader users: navigating lengthy web documents that lack proper heading structure. When web pages do not include semantic headings or internal navigation links, users must read content linearly,…

  • screen readers
  • navigation
  • natural language processing
  • topic segmentation
  • large language models
  • assistive technology
  • headings
  • BERT
  • ChatGPT

• Unintended Machine Learning Biases as Social Barriers for Persons with Disabilities

  Ben Hutchinson, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Remi Denton, Kellie Webster, Yu Zhong, Stephen Denuyl (2020) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper from Google's Ethical AI team provides concrete empirical evidence that widely deployed NLP models encode measurable biases against people with disabilities, creating social barriers through technology. The authors examine three layers of …

  • machine learning bias
  • NLP
  • toxicity detection
  • sentiment analysis
  • disability representation
  • content moderation
  • BERT
  • word embeddings
  • social barriers
  • stereotyping