Literature Reviews

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

• Shiny Stories, Hidden Struggles: Investigating the Representation of Disability Through the Lens of LLMs

  Marco Bombieri, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Marco Rospocher (2026) — ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology

  This paper investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) represent disability by comparing AI-generated social media posts with self-descriptions from real people with disabilities on Reddit. The study addresses a critical gap in bias research: while…

  • AI bias
  • large language models
  • disability representation
  • inspiration porn
  • toxic positivity
  • sentiment analysis
  • inclusion
  • social media
  • debiasing

• Examining and Mitigating Ability-bias in LLMs via Self-Reflection

  Neel Iyer, Akshita Jha, Alisha Pradhan (2025) — Proceedings of the 22nd International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This short paper investigates ability bias in large language models — the tendency of LLMs to encode and perpetuate stereotypical or discriminatory associations about people with disabilities. Using the Bias Benchmarking Questionnaire (BBQ) dataset, …

  • ability bias
  • ableism
  • LLM bias
  • debiasing
  • AI fairness
  • disability representation
  • prompt chaining