Literature Reviews

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

• Toward Enhancing Subtitle Features in Mobile Apps: Analyzing User Reviews for Accessibility and Usability Insights

  Wajdi M Aljedaani, Matheus Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Eler (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This large-scale study analyses user reviews from the Google Play Store to understand how people experience subtitle and caption features in mobile applications. The authors extracted roughly 180 million reviews from the top 340 Android apps across d…

  • subtitles
  • captioning
  • mobile applications
  • user reviews
  • app store analysis
  • sentiment analysis
  • hearing impairments
  • customization
  • multilingual accessibility

• The TaskTracker: Assistive Technology for Task Completion

  Victoria E. Hribar (2011) — Proceedings of the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011)

  This short paper presents the TaskTracker, an Android smartphone application designed to help individuals with cognitive impairments complete everyday tasks by combining time-management and prompting features into a single tool. The author identifies…

  • assistive technology
  • cognitive impairment
  • task completion
  • time management
  • mobile applications
  • attention deficit
  • Android

• Architecture of an Automated Therapy Tool for Childhood Apraxia of Speech

  Avinash Parnandi, Virendra Karappa, Youngpyo Son, Mostafa Shahin, Jacqueline McKechnie, Kirrie Ballard, Beena Ahmed, Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna (2013) — Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents a multi-tier client-server system for remotely administering speech therapy to children with childhood apraxia of speech (CAS), a neurological speech sound disorder that impairs the precision and consistency of oro-motor planning …

  • childhood apraxia of speech
  • speech therapy
  • speech sound disorder
  • automated speech analysis
  • tele-rehabilitation
  • mobile applications
  • speech recognition

• Accessible Technology for Adults with Down Syndrome: A Scoping Review

  Hailey L. Johnson, Bilge Mutlu (2025) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This scoping review synthesizes 20 peer-reviewed publications examining digital technologies designed and used by adults with Down syndrome (AwDS), defined as individuals aged 18 and older. The authors followed PRISMA-ScR guidelines, searching six ac…

  • Down syndrome
  • intellectual disability
  • cognitive accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • scoping review
  • inclusive design
  • AAC
  • mobile applications
  • smart home
  • social robots
  • participatory design