Literature Reviews

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

• Towards a Framework to Situate Assistive Technology Design in the Context of Culture

  Fatima A. Boujarwah, Nazneen, Hwajung Hong, Gregory D. Abowd, Rosa I. Arriaga (2011) — Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This paper presents findings from a cross-cultural qualitative study examining societal expectations, perceptions, and support structures for individuals with autism and other intellectual disabilities (AOID) across four countries: Kuwait, Pakistan, …

  • assistive technology
  • autism
  • cross-cultural design
  • intellectual disability
  • cultural accessibility
  • qualitative research
  • inclusive design

• Cross-Cultural Web Design Guidelines

  Rukshan Alexander, David Murray, Nik Thompson (2017) — Proceedings of the 14th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper develops evidence-based cross-cultural web design guidelines that go beyond simple language translation to address culturally specific design preferences in layout, navigation, links, multimedia, visual representation, colour, and text. Th…

  • cross-cultural design
  • web design guidelines
  • cultural factors
  • internationalization
  • localization
  • usability
  • HCI
  • Hofstede
  • inclusive design
  • Australia
  • China
  • Saudi Arabia
  • web accessibility