Literature Reviews

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

• "Beyond Perceivability": Critical Requirements for Universal Design of Information

  Takashi Kato, Masahiro Hori (2006) — Proceedings of the 8th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '06)

  This paper argues that accessibility discussions focus too narrowly on perceivability — making information visually, audibly, or tactilely available — while neglecting the equally critical requirement of cognitive understandability. The authors conte…

  • cognitive accessibility
  • cognitive usability
  • universal design
  • cognitive walkthrough
  • evaluation methods
  • web accessibility
  • perceivability
  • understandability