Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
13 results found tagged critical disability studies.
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Before the Technological Fix: Scoping AI and AAC for Social Futures
Ibrahim and colleagues - a multi-institution team of researchers working at the intersection of AAC, HCI, and disability studies - argue that the recent surge of HCI work applying AI to Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is drifting awa…
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Infrastructuring as Collective Resistance: How Disabled Students Negotiate Access Through Technology in Universities
Ly, Cross, Tasman, Mattka, Doggett, Marathe, and Chandra examine how disabled students at a large Canadian university collectively negotiate access when the institution's individualised accommodations system fails them. Through semi-structured interv…
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When Assistive Technologies become Provocations: Unpacking Access in HCI practices using Crip Technoscience, Mouth Interfaces, and XR
This CHI 2026 paper reframes assistive technology as political provocation rather than technical fix. Developed in long-term collaboration with two disabled artists - Eric Desrosiers (muscular dystrophy) and Christian Bayerlein (spinal muscular atrop…
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Access in the Shadow of Ableism: An Autoethnography of a Blind Student's Higher Education Experience in China
This paper is a collaborative autoethnography written by Xinru Tang and Weijun Zhang, in which Zhang - a blind graduate student who completed his undergraduate work in a specialized program for blind and low-vision (BLV) students at "University A" in…
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Rhetoric vs Responsibility: How Tech Companies Shape AI for Accessibility
Marathe, Zhou, Mishra, and Piper conduct a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of 126 public-facing blog posts and news articles published between 2016 and 2025 by 11 leading U.S.-based AI companies — Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Eleven Labs, Google, Meta, Mi…
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Adult Autism Research Priorities and Conceptualization in Computing Research: Invitation to Co-lead with Autistic Adults
This extensive literature review critically examines computing research involving autistic adults, analyzing 44 papers from the ACM Guide to Computing Literature published between 2007 and 2022. The work is distinctive in that the first author is aut…
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Prefigurative Politics and Passionate Witnessing
This experience report traces the unlikely partnership between two researchers — Rua Williams, an autistic disability studies scholar and activist, and LouAnne Boyd, a former behaviour therapist turned HCI researcher — whose work initially placed the…
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Cripping Data Visualizations: Crip Technoscience as a Critical Lens for Designing Digital Access
This paper applies crip technoscience as a critical, generative framework for rethinking how accessible data visualizations are designed. The authors argue that current approaches to visualization accessibility largely treat access as a technical pro…
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"I Am Human, Just Like You": What Intersectional, Neurodivergent Lived Experiences Bring to Accessibility Research
This paper uses critical autoethnography to examine how intersectional identities shape the experience of neurodivergence, drawing on the author's personal journey of discovering, accepting, and valuing their autism and ADHD diagnoses as a cisgender,…
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Do you overreact to pressure, blow things out of proportion?: An ADHD-Centered Critical Review of Emotional Dysregulation Measures
This paper presents a critical review of 27 self-report emotional dysregulation measures used in research with adults who have Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Emotional dysregulation—difficulty managing emotions leading to intense, r…