Literature Reviews

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

• Silence is a Feature, Not a Bug: A Deaf Developer’s Autoethnography on Agency and Local AI

  Chenyang Gong (2026) — Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’26)

  This CHI 2026 Extended Abstract is a three-page autoethnographic provocation by a Deaf computer science graduate student who uses a MED-EL cochlear implant. The author refuses the medical-model framing of deafness as deficit and instead argues that t…

  • autoethnography
  • deaf and hard of hearing
  • cochlear implant
  • automatic speech recognition
  • captioning
  • local-first software
  • privacy
  • crip technoscience
  • AI accessibility