Literature Reviews

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

• Disclosure Matters: How Self-Disclosure Statements in Song Signing Videos Shape d/Deaf Audiences' Acceptance of Culturally Sensitive Content

  Suhyeon Yoo, Somang Nam, Mark Chignell, Khai N. Truong (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper investigates whether self-disclosure statements (SDS) — short first-person texts in which a song signer describes their identity, motivations, training, and relationship to the Deaf community — can improve how d/Deaf audiences rec…

  • self-disclosure
  • Deaf culture
  • song signing
  • cultural appropriation
  • sign language
  • ASL
  • social media accessibility
  • positionality
  • cross-cultural communication
  • video accessibility

• Tackling the Lack of a Practical Guide in Disability-Centered Research

  Emma J. McDonnell, Kelly Avery Mack, Kathrin Gerling, Katta Spiel, Cynthia L. Bennett, Robin N. Brewer, Rua Mae Williams, Garreth W. Tigwell (2023) — ASSETS '23: Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This workshop paper proposes a structured effort to develop a practical guide for conducting disability-centered accessibility research. The authors — a team of eight researchers across multiple institutions, several of whom are disabled scholars — a…

  • disability justice
  • research methods
  • participatory design
  • power dynamics
  • disability studies
  • research ethics
  • positionality