Literature Reviews

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

• A Sound Understanding — An In-Situ Deployment of an Accessible Audio-Media Player with People Living with Aphasia

  Filip Bircanin, Alexandre Nevsky, Madeline N Cruice, Ognjen Markovic, Timothy Neate (2026) — Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)

  Bircanin and colleagues argue that audio-only media — radio, podcasts, audiobooks — has been largely ignored in accessibility research and practice, even though it structures the daily lives of millions and is a significant barrier for people living …

  • aphasia
  • audio accessibility
  • podcasts
  • audiobooks
  • complex communication needs
  • in-situ deployment
  • research through design
  • generative AI
  • transcripts
  • co-design

• Captions Versus Transcripts for Online Video Content

  Raja S. Kushalnagar, Walter S. Lasecki, Jeffrey P. Bigham (2013) — Proceedings of the 10th International Cross-Disciplinary Conference on Web Accessibility (W4A)

  This paper investigates a fundamental challenge for deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) users consuming online video: while hearing viewers can watch and listen simultaneously using separate sensory channels, DHH viewers must process two competing visual …

  • captioning
  • deaf accessibility
  • transcripts
  • online education
  • MOOCs
  • video accessibility
  • cognitive overload
  • multimedia accessibility