Literature Reviews

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

• Social Predictors of Assistive Technology Proficiency Among Teachers of Students with Visual Impairments

  Valerie S. Morash, Yue-Ting Siu (2016) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This study investigates why only about 40% of Teachers of students with Visual Impairments (TVIs) integrate assistive technology into their practice, despite AT being critical for K-12 students' educational engagement and predictive of positive posts…

  • assistive technology
  • visual impairment
  • special education
  • teacher training
  • community of practice
  • K-12 education
  • professional development

• Understanding Audio Production Practices of People with Vision Impairments

  Abir Saha, Anne Marie Piper (2020) — ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents the first detailed empirical study of how people with vision impairments use digital audio production tools in their personal and professional work. Through semi-structured interviews with 18 blind and visually impaired audio prof…

  • visual impairments
  • audio production
  • creative content production
  • screen readers
  • assistive technology
  • professional accessibility
  • qualitative research
  • community of practice