Literature Reviews

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

• "I Don't Trust Any Professional Research Tool": A Re-Imagination of Knowledge Production Workflows by, with, and for Blind and Low-Vision Researchers

  Omar Khan, JooYoung Seo (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper is an autoethnographically-grounded, mixed-methods study of how blind and low-vision (BLV) researchers actually do research inside an ecosystem of tools built with sighted workflows in mind. Written by two BLV researchers (one tot…

  • meta-research
  • blind and low vision
  • research workflows
  • academic accessibility
  • activity theory
  • mixed methods
  • reflexive thematic analysis
  • research tools
  • screen readers
  • ableism
  • epistemic injustice
  • qualitative analysis software
  • AI accessibility
  • scholarly publishing
  • disability studies

• Performing Qualitative Data Analysis as a Blind Researcher: Challenges, Workarounds and Design Recommendations

  O. Aishwarya (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This short paper provides a first-person account from a blind early-career researcher about the significant accessibility barriers encountered when trying to perform qualitative data analysis (QDA). The author, based at IIIT Bangalore, situates the w…

  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • qualitative research
  • research accessibility
  • academic accessibility
  • software accessibility
  • participatory research
  • disability studies