Literature Reviews

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

• Infrastructuring as Collective Resistance: How Disabled Students Negotiate Access Through Technology in Universities

  Carolyn Kim Ly, Trevor Cross, Selin Tasman, Jocelyn Mattka, Olivia Doggett, Megh Marathe, Priyank Chandra (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Ly, Cross, Tasman, Mattka, Doggett, Marathe, and Chandra examine how disabled students at a large Canadian university collectively negotiate access when the institution's individualised accommodations system fails them. Through semi-structured interv…

  • higher education accessibility
  • access work
  • infrastructuring
  • mutual aid
  • disability justice
  • student activism
  • counteractive frictions
  • critical disability studies
  • accommodations
  • care webs

• Infrastructuring for Access: Co-Designing Writing Tools with a Dyslexic Academic

  Emily Q. Wang, Aron S. Marie (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Wang and Marie propose Infrastructuring for Access, a design approach that weaves together HCI's infrastructuring theory (Star, Pipek, Ruhleder) with Disability Studies' critique of ableism and with Repair Studies. Unlike Universal Design and Ability…

  • dyslexia
  • print disability
  • writing tools
  • spell checkers
  • infrastructuring
  • access labor
  • co-design
  • disability studies
  • assistive technology
  • neurodiversity
  • multilingual writing
  • participatory design
  • technological ableism