Literature Reviews

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

• Rhetoric vs Responsibility: How Tech Companies Shape AI for Accessibility

  Aparajita S Marathe, Quan Zhou, Achi Mishra, Anne Marie Piper (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  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…

  • artificial intelligence
  • AI accessibility
  • critical discourse analysis
  • disability justice
  • critical disability studies
  • technoableism
  • corporate rhetoric
  • AI ethics
  • participatory design
  • disability representation
  • ethics washing

• Deinstitutionalizing Independence: Discourses of Disability and Housing in Accessible Computing

  Kevin M. Storer, Stacy M. Branham (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine how the history of institutionalization and deinstitutionalization in the United States shapes contemporary Accessible Computing (AC) research focused on domestic spaces. The authors analyz…

  • disability studies
  • critical discourse analysis
  • institutionalization
  • independent living
  • housing
  • ableism
  • domestic technology
  • accessibility research