Literature Reviews

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

• Infrastructuring as Collective Resistance: How Disabled Students Negotiate Access Through Technology in Universities

  Carolyn Kim Ly, Trevor Cross, Selin Tasman, Jocelyn Mattka, Olivia Doggett, Megh Marathe, Priyank Chandra (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Ly, Cross, Tasman, Mattka, Doggett, Marathe, and Chandra examine how disabled students at a large Canadian university collectively negotiate access when the institution's individualised accommodations system fails them. Through semi-structured interv…

  • higher education accessibility
  • access work
  • infrastructuring
  • mutual aid
  • disability justice
  • student activism
  • counteractive frictions
  • critical disability studies
  • accommodations
  • care webs

• Understanding the Role of Socio-Technical Infrastructures on the Organization of Access for the Mixed-Ability Collaborators

  Zeynep Şölen Yıldız (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This doctoral consortium paper presents a PhD research agenda investigating how socio-technical infrastructures shape the negotiation and distribution of access for mixed-ability collaborators. Yıldız draws on the Social Model of Disability and Socia…

  • socio-technical infrastructure
  • access work
  • mixed-ability collaboration
  • disability justice
  • social model of disability
  • gatekeeping
  • collaborative access
  • cross-disability solidarity