Literature Reviews

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

• "We need a vision first": Speculating Deaf-Centered Immersive Classrooms

  Shuxu Huffman, Abraham Glasser, Christopher Hayes, Christian Vogler, Raja Kushalnagar (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26)

  Huffman and colleagues at Gallaudet University present an all-Deaf-authored speculative design study that asks not how extended-reality (XR) classrooms can be retrofitted for Deaf students, but what XR classrooms should look like when Deaf teachers l…

  • Deaf Tech
  • extended reality
  • Deaf culture
  • Deaf education
  • speculative design
  • participatory design
  • DeafSpace
  • sign language
  • American Sign Language
  • accessibility theory

• AfricaSign -- A Crowd-sourcing Platform for the Documentation of STEM Vocabulary in African Sign Languages

  Abdelhadi Soudi, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Elmostafa Bou-Souf (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This demonstration paper presents AfricaSign, a web-based crowdsourcing platform designed to enable African Deaf communities to document their endangered sign languages, with a focus on early-grade and STEM vocabulary. Most African sign languages are…

  • sign language
  • Africa
  • endangered languages
  • crowdsourcing
  • signing avatar
  • STEM accessibility
  • Deaf education
  • language documentation
  • digital inclusion
  • developing nations