Literature Reviews

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

• Ability Heuristics for Conducting Accessibility Inspections

  Claire L. Mitchell, Junhan Kong, Jesse J. Martinez, Shaun K. Kane, Amy J. Ko, Alexis Hiniker, Jacob O. Wobbrock (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Mitchell and colleagues develop and evaluate a set of nine 'ability heuristics' intended to let designers and developers — not just accessibility specialists — inspect interactive technology for accessibility problems. The authors argue that existing…

  • heuristic evaluation
  • ability-based design
  • accessibility inspection
  • accessibility evaluation
  • design methods
  • inspection methods
  • accessibility quality
  • design education