Literature Reviews

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

• Online Focus Groups Used as an Accessible Participatory Research Method

  Ted L. Wattenberg (2005) — Proceedings of the 7th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '05)

  This paper proposes the use of online focus groups as a method for meaningfully including people with disabilities in participatory research, addressing persistent barriers to their involvement in technology studies. The author situates this work wit…

  • participatory research
  • accessibility
  • research methods
  • screen readers
  • disability inclusion
  • focus groups
  • assistive technology
  • usability

• Disability Studies as a Source of Critical Inquiry for the Field of Assistive Technology

  Jennifer Mankoff, Gillian R. Hayes, Devva Kasnitz (2010) — Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2010)

  This keynote-style paper argues that the assistive technology (AT) research community should draw more deeply from disability studies scholarship to improve both the problems it chooses to address and its research methods. The authors — two of whom i…

  • disability studies
  • assistive technology
  • social model of disability
  • medical model
  • critical theory
  • inclusive design
  • participatory research
  • disability rights
  • autism
  • accessibility research

• Adult Autism Research Priorities and Conceptualization in Computing Research: Invitation to Co-lead with Autistic Adults

  Dafne Zuleima Morgado Ramirez, Giulia Barbareschi, Cathy Holloway (2024) — ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

  This extensive literature review critically examines computing research involving autistic adults, analyzing 44 papers from the ACM Guide to Computing Literature published between 2007 and 2022. The work is distinctive in that the first author is aut…

  • autism
  • neurodiversity
  • adult autism
  • research priorities
  • disability models
  • double empathy problem
  • participatory research
  • ableism
  • critical disability studies
  • identity-first language

• The accessibility of administrative processes: Assessing the impacts on students in higher education

  Tim Coughlan, Kate Lister (2018) — Proceedings of the 15th International Web for All Conference (W4A 2018)

  This paper investigates the impacts that administrative processes — such as applying for disability support, gaining medical evidence, registering for courses, and applying for government benefits — have on disabled university students. The research …

  • administrative burden
  • higher education
  • disability
  • mental health
  • forms accessibility
  • disability support
  • participatory research
  • stress
  • reasonable adjustments
  • UK

• Disability-first Dataset Creation: Lessons from Constructing a Dataset for Teachable Object Recognition with Blind and Low Vision Data Collectors

  Lida Theodorou, Daniela Massiceti, Luisa Zintgraf, Simone Stumpf, Cecily Morrison, Edward Cutrell, Matthew Tobias Harris, Katja Hofmann (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21)

  This paper presents a disability-first approach to constructing a machine learning dataset for teachable object recognition, developed through the ORBIT (Objects that Recognize Blind Individuals in Their environment) project. The authors argue that w…

  • disability-first design
  • dataset creation
  • teachable object recognition
  • blind and low vision
  • machine learning
  • data collection
  • participatory research
  • accessible mobile applications

• A Case for Making Web Accessibility Guidelines Accessible: Older Adult Content Creators and Web Accessibility Planning

  Aqueasha Martin-Hammond, Ulka Patil, Barsa Tandukar (2021) — Proceedings of the 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '21)

  This short paper presents an experience report on partnering with older adult content creators at an independent living community to support web accessibility planning for their internal resident website. The website served as a civic participation t…

  • web accessibility
  • older adults
  • content creators
  • WCAG
  • participatory research
  • digital literacy
  • PDF accessibility
  • aging

• Performing Qualitative Data Analysis as a Blind Researcher: Challenges, Workarounds and Design Recommendations

  O. Aishwarya (2022) — Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)

  This short paper provides a first-person account from a blind early-career researcher about the significant accessibility barriers encountered when trying to perform qualitative data analysis (QDA). The author, based at IIIT Bangalore, situates the w…

  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • qualitative research
  • research accessibility
  • academic accessibility
  • software accessibility
  • participatory research
  • disability studies