Literature Reviews

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

• The Design of Human-Powered Access Technology

  Jeffrey P. Bigham, Richard E. Ladner, Yevgen Borodin (2011) — Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This paper presents a comprehensive framework of 13 design dimensions for evaluating and comparing human-powered access technology — systems that use human assistance, facilitated by technology, to overcome accessibility barriers that automation alon…

  • human computation
  • crowdsourcing
  • assistive technology
  • accessibility framework
  • design principles

• Designing Beneath the Surface of the Web

  Sarah Horton (2006) — Proceedings of the 2006 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper reframes web accessibility as fundamentally a source code design problem, arguing that designers focus almost exclusively on the visual "surface" of web pages — colors, typography, layouts — while neglecting the underlying code layer that …

  • semantic HTML
  • web design
  • universal usability
  • nonvisual access
  • screen readers
  • mobile accessibility
  • document structure
  • design principles