Literature Reviews

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

• I'm Always a Little Skeptical of It: Verification Practices of Blind Users When Working with Generative AI in Spreadsheets

  Minoli Perera, Swamy Ananthanarayan, Cagatay Goncu, Kim Marriott (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  This CHI 2026 paper reports a remote study with 12 blind screen reader users (11 totally blind, 1 legally blind) examining how they verify outputs produced by Generative AI tools when working on accuracy-critical spreadsheet tasks. Spreadsheets are p…

  • blindness
  • screen readers
  • Generative AI
  • spreadsheets
  • AI accessibility
  • assistive technology
  • hallucinations
  • verification
  • Microsoft Copilot
  • ChatGPT

• Understanding Strategies and Challenges of Conducting Daily Data Analysis (DDA) Among Blind and Low-vision People

  Chutian Jiang, Wentao Lei, Emily Kuang, Teng Han, Mingming Fan (2023) — Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2023)

  This paper investigates how blind and low-vision (BLV) people perform what the authors term Daily Data Analysis (DDA) — the common, everyday tasks of analyzing and deriving insights from data such as splitting expenses, computing stock portfolio chan…

  • blind and low vision
  • data accessibility
  • screen readers
  • spreadsheets
  • data analysis
  • think-aloud
  • qualitative study