Literature Reviews

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

• Health Data Visualization Literacy Skills of Young Adults with Down Syndrome and the Barriers to Inference-making

  Rachel Wood, Jinjuan Heidi Feng, Jonathan Lazar (2024) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This exploratory study is the first to examine how young adults with Down Syndrome read and interpret health data visualizations (HDVs). The researchers conducted semi-structured interviews with ten participants (ages 16-29) as they viewed six differ…

  • Down Syndrome
  • data visualization
  • health informatics
  • graphicacy
  • cognitive accessibility
  • intellectual disability
  • health literacy
  • inclusive design

• Widening access to online health education for lung cancer: a feasibility study

  Julia Mueller, Alan Davies, Simon Harper, Caroline Jay, Chris Todd (2016) — Proceedings of the 13th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper presents a feasibility study of "When2Go," a web-based lung cancer symptom appraisal tool designed to reach populations typically excluded from online health information: older adults with low education levels, low health literacy, and psy…

  • health literacy
  • healthcare accessibility
  • plain language
  • personalization
  • aging
  • digital inclusion
  • online health information
  • patient empowerment