Literature Reviews

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

• A survey of open accessibility data

  Chaohai Ding, Mike Wald, Gary Wills (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper surveys the landscape of open accessibility data in the UK, focusing on geographic and location-based datasets that could help people with disabilities navigate physical spaces and plan travel. The authors examine five data sources: Wheelm…

  • open data
  • linked data
  • accessible travel
  • crowdsourcing
  • semantic web
  • wheelchair accessibility
  • transportation accessibility

• Linked Data-Driven Decision Support for Accessible Travelling

  Chaohai Ding, Mike Wald, Gary Wills (2015) — Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This doctoral consortium paper proposes using Linked Data principles to build a decision support system (DSS) for accessible travel planning, primarily targeting people with mobility difficulties. The core problem is that accessibility information ab…

  • linked data
  • semantic web
  • accessible travel
  • mobility impairment
  • decision support system
  • open data
  • wayfinding
  • route planning
  • data integration