Literature Reviews

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

• Bring Environments to People – A Case Study of Virtual Tours in Accessibility Assessment for People with Limited Mobility

  Hao-Yun Chi, Jingzhen Sha, Yang Zhang (2023) — Proceedings of the 20th International Web for All Conference (W4A '23)

  This study presents the first user research with people with limited mobility on using virtual tours — 3D digital replicas of physical environments captured with 360-degree cameras and depth sensors — to remotely assess the accessibility of indoor sp…

  • physical accessibility
  • wheelchair users
  • virtual reality
  • accessible housing
  • mobility impairments
  • independent living
  • built environment
  • assistive technology
  • spinal cord injury
  • user study

• Not a "Typical Expat": An Autoethnographic Account on Accessible Relocation

  Zeynep Yildiz, Caroline Karmann, Kathrin Gerling (2024) — ASSETS 2024: 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This experience report presents an autoethnographic account of the first author Zeynep Yildiz’s relocation from Turkey to Germany as a postdoctoral researcher with a mobility disability caused by a rare myopathy. Using reflexive thematic analysis of …

  • autoethnography
  • relocation
  • mobility disability
  • accessible housing
  • language barriers
  • disability policy
  • accessibility information
  • disabled expat