Literature Reviews

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

• "Computer Says No": Disabled Welfare Experiences and Envisioned Futures Under AI Governance

  Humphrey Curtis, Adam D G Jenkins, Alistair Gentry, Sioban Zacharek, Sally McVicker, Timothy Neate, Filip Bircanin (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Curtis and colleagues investigate how people with aphasia — a language impairment most often caused by stroke that affects reading, writing, speech, and comprehension — experience the increasingly digitised and AI-automated UK welfare state, and how …

  • AI
  • artificial intelligence
  • AI governance
  • algorithmic decision-making
  • aphasia
  • welfare
  • digital exclusion
  • participatory design
  • design fiction
  • disability rights
  • critical HCI
  • government services
  • hostile design
  • communication disability

• Speaking with My Screen Reader: Using Audio Fictions to Explore Conversational Access to Interfaces

  Mahika Phutane, Crescentia Jung, Niu Chen, Shiri Azenkot (2023) — ASSETS 2023: The 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper explores whether and how human-like conversational assistants could extend the screen reader experience for blind and low vision (BLV) users. Current screen readers provide linear, impersonal access to interfaces through keyboard-driven cu…

  • screen readers
  • conversational agents
  • blind and low vision
  • design fiction
  • voice assistants
  • nonvisual access
  • speculative design
  • anthropomorphism
  • assistive technology
  • AI accessibility