Literature Reviews

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

• Making GIFs Accessible

  Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Himalini Gururaj, Kris Kitani, Jeffrey Bigham (2020) — Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2020)

  This Carnegie Mellon University study examines the accessibility of GIFs on social media, a visual medium that has become central to online conversation but remains largely inaccessible to people with vision impairments. The researchers conducted a m…

  • GIF accessibility
  • alternative text
  • audio description
  • blind
  • low vision
  • social media
  • Twitter
  • image description
  • visual media