Literature Reviews

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

• AccessQuest: A Game-Based Approach to Digital Accessibility Education

  P D Parthasarathy, Swaroop Joshi (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computing Education

  Parthasarathy and Joshi present AccessQuest, a single-player, role-playing platformer that teaches five WCAG 2.1 Level A success criteria — text alternatives (1.1.1), captions for pre-recorded content (1.2.2), transcripts for audio-only content (1.2.…

  • accessibility education
  • game-based learning
  • serious games
  • WCAG
  • computing education
  • gamification
  • design-based research
  • role-playing game
  • higher education

• Accessibility Education for Software Engineers: Evaluating the Impact of Game-Based Learning

  P D Parthasarathy, Swaroop Joshi (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computing Education

  Parthasarathy and Joshi address a persistent industry problem: despite 25 years of WCAG, only 5.2% of top web homepages fully conform, and organizations consistently report that staff lack accessibility skills. Academic curricula are slowly integrati…

  • accessibility education
  • game-based learning
  • serious games
  • WCAG
  • software engineering
  • gamification
  • workplace training
  • design-based research