Literature Reviews

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

• Semantic Web: The Story So Far

  Ian Horrocks (2007) — Proceedings of the 2007 International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This W4A 2007 keynote paper by Ian Horrocks of the University of Manchester provides an overview of the Semantic Web vision and the progress made toward realizing it, with particular focus on the Web Ontology Language (OWL). The paper opens by identi…

  • semantic web
  • ontology
  • OWL
  • knowledge representation
  • web standards
  • linked data

• A survey of open accessibility data

  Chaohai Ding, Mike Wald, Gary Wills (2014) — Proceedings of the 11th Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This paper surveys the landscape of open accessibility data in the UK, focusing on geographic and location-based datasets that could help people with disabilities navigate physical spaces and plan travel. The authors examine five data sources: Wheelm…

  • open data
  • linked data
  • accessible travel
  • crowdsourcing
  • semantic web
  • wheelchair accessibility
  • transportation accessibility

• Linked Data-Driven Decision Support for Accessible Travelling

  Chaohai Ding, Mike Wald, Gary Wills (2015) — Proceedings of the 12th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This doctoral consortium paper proposes using Linked Data principles to build a decision support system (DSS) for accessible travel planning, primarily targeting people with mobility difficulties. The core problem is that accessibility information ab…

  • linked data
  • semantic web
  • accessible travel
  • mobility impairment
  • decision support system
  • open data
  • wayfinding
  • route planning
  • data integration