Literature Reviews

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

• How Do Professionals Who Create Computing Technologies Consider Accessibility?

  Cynthia Putnam, Kathryn Wozniak, Mary Jo Zefeldt, Jinghui Cheng, Morgan Caputo, Carl Duffield (2012) — Proceedings of the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012)

  This paper presents survey findings about how UX and HCI professionals consider accessibility in their work, based on responses from 199 participants representing a wide range of job titles and nationalities (recruited via IxDA, SIGCHI, and UPA chann…

  • inclusive design
  • accessibility education
  • UX professionals
  • HCI
  • organizational accessibility
  • empathy
  • accessibility advocacy
  • survey research
  • professional practice

• "Slipping through the cracks": A Duoethnography of Web Accessibility

  Shira Abramovich, Elizabeth Patitsas (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This position paper uses duoethnography — a collaborative qualitative method where two researchers examine a shared topic through their contrasting personal experiences — to explore the practical labour of doing web accessibility work. The authors, S…

  • web accessibility
  • professional practice
  • accessibility management
  • organizational accessibility
  • qualitative research
  • autoethnography
  • compliance