Literature Reviews

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

• An Empirical Study of Issues and Barriers to Mainstream Video Game Accessibility

  John R. Porter, Julie A. Kientz (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper investigates the real-world state of video game accessibility through two complementary empirical studies. The first is an online survey of 55 gamers with disabilities, exploring their gaming habits, the platforms they use, the types of ga…

  • game accessibility
  • video games
  • assistive technology
  • motor impairment
  • visual impairment
  • hearing impairment
  • cognitive impairment
  • middleware
  • accessibility guidelines
  • empirical study

• The Current Status of Accessibility in Mobile Apps

  Shunguo Yan, P. G. Ramachandran (2019) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This large-scale empirical study evaluated the accessibility of 479 Android apps from Google Play across 23 business categories using IBM Mobile Accessibility Checker (MAC), an automated tool that maps accessibility rules to GUI widget categories. Th…

  • mobile accessibility
  • Android
  • automated testing
  • accessibility evaluation
  • GUI accessibility
  • empirical study