Literature Reviews

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

• Arabic web accessibility guidelines: Understanding and use by web developers in Kuwait

  Muhammad Saleem (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This extended abstract describes a doctoral research project aimed at developing and implementing Arabic-language web accessibility resources for developers, web content managers, and designers in Kuwait and the broader Middle East. The paper highlig…

  • web accessibility
  • Arabic
  • Kuwait
  • Middle East
  • WCAG
  • global accessibility
  • language barriers
  • PDF accessibility
  • screen readers
  • right-to-left

• Not a "Typical Expat": An Autoethnographic Account on Accessible Relocation

  Zeynep Yildiz, Caroline Karmann, Kathrin Gerling (2024) — ASSETS 2024: 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This experience report presents an autoethnographic account of the first author Zeynep Yildiz’s relocation from Turkey to Germany as a postdoctoral researcher with a mobility disability caused by a rare myopathy. Using reflexive thematic analysis of …

  • autoethnography
  • relocation
  • mobility disability
  • accessible housing
  • language barriers
  • disability policy
  • accessibility information
  • disabled expat