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

• Infrastructuring for Access: Co-Designing Writing Tools with a Dyslexic Academic

  Emily Q. Wang, Aron S. Marie (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Wang and Marie propose Infrastructuring for Access, a design approach that weaves together HCI's infrastructuring theory (Star, Pipek, Ruhleder) with Disability Studies' critique of ableism and with Repair Studies. Unlike Universal Design and Ability…

  • dyslexia
  • print disability
  • writing tools
  • spell checkers
  • infrastructuring
  • access labor
  • co-design
  • disability studies
  • assistive technology
  • neurodiversity
  • multilingual writing
  • participatory design
  • technological ableism

• Understanding How Accessibility Practices Impact Teamwork in Mixed-Ability Teams that Collaborate Virtually

  Crescentia Jung, Kexin Cheng, Sharon Heung, Malte F. Jung, Shiri Azenkot (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper examines how accessibility practices shape teamwork in mixed-ability teams—teams composed of disabled and non-disabled members—who collaborate virtually. While prior research has documented individual access barriers and the accom…

  • mixed-ability teams
  • virtual collaboration
  • remote work
  • teamwork
  • accessibility practices
  • allyship
  • access labor
  • workplace accessibility
  • qualitative research

• Anticipate and Adjust: Cultivating Access in Human-Centered Methods

  Kelly Mack, Emma McDonnell, Venkatesh Potluri, Maggie Xu, Jailyn Zabala, Jeffrey Bigham, Jennifer Mankoff, Cynthia Bennett (2022) — CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

  This paper investigates how accessibility experts make human-centered research methods accessible for both disabled participants and disabled facilitators. Through 17 interviews with US and Canadian accessibility experts (13 researchers and 4 communi…

  • research methods
  • accessibility
  • disability
  • participatory design
  • user research
  • inclusive research
  • access labor
  • crip time
  • interdependence
  • mixed-ability teams

• Mixed Abilities and Varied Experiences: a group autoethnography of a virtual summer internship

  Kelly Mack, Maitraye Das, Dhruv Jain, Danielle Bragg, John Tang, Andrew Begel, Erin Beneteau, Josh Urban Davis, Abraham Glasser, Joon Sung Park, Venkatesh Potluri (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents a group autoethnography of Microsoft Research's Ability Team during the summer 2020 virtual internship — the company's first all-remote intern cohort. Eleven team members (6 authors, 5 meta-authors) journaled their experiences ove…

  • remote work
  • mixed-ability teams
  • autoethnography
  • virtual collaboration
  • workplace accessibility
  • access labor
  • allyship
  • invisible disability
  • accommodation
  • video conferencing