Literature Reviews

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

• Understanding Social and Environmental Factors to Enable Collective Access Approaches to the Design of Captioning Technology

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

  This doctoral consortium paper presents a dissertation research program that reimagines how captioning technology should be designed by applying the disability justice principle of collective access — the idea that accessibility is a shared responsib…

  • captioning
  • collective access
  • disability justice
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • co-design
  • social accessibility
  • automatic speech recognition
  • social media accessibility

• Envisioning Collective Communication Access: A Theoretically-Grounded Review of Captioning Literature from 2013-2023

  Emma J. McDonnell, Leah Findlater (2024) — Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '24)

  This paper synthesises thinking from four fields — disability studies, Deaf studies, disability justice, and communication studies — into a framework of collective communication access, then uses it to analyse a decade of HCI captioning research (201…

  • captioning
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • collective access
  • disability justice
  • disability studies
  • communication access
  • literature review