Literature Reviews

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

• The Three Praxes Framework — A Thematic Review and Map of Social Accessibility Research

  JiWoong (Joon) Jang, Patrick Carrington, Andrew Begel (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper by Jang, Carrington, and Begel (Carnegie Mellon) offers a thematic review and conceptual map of fifteen years of "social accessibility" research in HCI—the body of work, inaugurated by Shinohara and Wobbrock in 2011, that studies …

  • social accessibility
  • disability justice
  • critical technical practice
  • research framework
  • literature review
  • assistive technology
  • design theory
  • social computing
  • qualitative research
  • HCI

• Social Accessibility: Achieving Accessibility through Collaborative Metadata Authoring

  Hironobu Takagi, Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Takashi Itoh, Chieko Asakawa (2008) — Proceedings of the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '08)

  This IBM Research Tokyo paper proposes Social Accessibility, a system that applies social computing principles to web accessibility by enabling a worldwide community of volunteers to collaboratively create external accessibility metadata for inaccess…

  • web accessibility
  • social computing
  • collaborative authoring
  • metadata
  • web transcoding
  • screen reader
  • crowdsourcing
  • assistive technology

• Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement: Challenges and Possibilities

  Hironobu Takagi, Shinya Kawanaka, Masatomo Kobayashi, Daisuke Sato, Chieko Asakawa (2009) — Proceedings of the 11th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '09)

  This paper reports on the Social Accessibility Project, an experimental service developed by IBM Research in Tokyo that uses collaborative metadata authoring to improve web accessibility. The system works through a three-part architecture: end users …

  • web accessibility
  • collaborative accessibility
  • crowdsourcing
  • metadata
  • screen readers
  • social computing
  • web transcoding
  • alternative text

• Exploratory Analysis of Collaborative Web Accessibility Improvement

  Daisuke Sato, Hironobu Takagi, Masatomo Kobayashi, Shinya Kawanaka, Chieko Asakawa (2010) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a detailed analysis of the Social Accessibility Project, an experimental crowdsourced service from IBM Research-Tokyo that enables volunteers to fix web accessibility problems without requiring site owners to modify their pages. L…

  • crowdsourcing
  • web accessibility
  • social computing
  • metadata
  • screen readers
  • alternative text
  • collaborative accessibility
  • blind users
  • transcoding

• Enriching Social Sharing for the Dementia Community: Insights from In-Person and Online Social Programs

  Jiamin Dai, Karyn Moffatt (2023) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This paper presents a comparative study of in-person and virtual social programs for people with dementia, examining how the COVID-19 pandemic transformed community-based social engagement. The research centers on "Tales & Travels," a storytelling pr…

  • dementia
  • cognitive accessibility
  • social computing
  • videoconferencing
  • caregivers
  • community programs
  • COVID-19
  • remote interaction
  • older adults

• Social accessibility: the challenge of improving web accessibility through collaboration

  Daisuke Sato, Masatomo Kobayashi, Hironobu Takagi, Chieko Asakawa (2010) — Proceedings of the 2010 International Cross Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper presents Social Accessibility, a collaborative project from IBM Research Tokyo that enlists volunteers to fix web accessibility problems reported by visually impaired users. The system works through a three-step process: blind users encoun…

  • crowdsourcing
  • screen readers
  • alternative text
  • visual impairment
  • social computing
  • collaborative accessibility
  • external metadata