Literature Reviews

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

• Smooth Sailing? Autoethnography of Recreational Travel by a Blind Person

  Kate Stephens, Matthew Butler, Leona M Holloway, Cagatay Goncu, Kim Marriott (2020) — ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS)

  This paper presents the first autoethnographic study of a blind traveller, documenting Kate Stephens' (the first author) experience planning and undertaking a 28-day cruise around Australia with her vision-impaired husband. Kate, a 63-year-old who ha…

  • visual impairments
  • travel
  • autoethnography
  • orientation and mobility
  • tactile maps
  • 3D printing
  • assistive technology
  • cognitive map
  • self-advocacy
  • accessible tourism

• "Seven Stitches Later": A Technologically Interdependent Travel Experience From The Perspective Of A Visually Impaired Individual

  Aziz N Zeidieh (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This autoethnographic experience report presents a technologically interdependent travel framework developed from over ten years of first-hand travel experience by the author, a visually impaired individual. The paper's title references a real injury…

  • visual impairment
  • travel
  • navigation
  • orientation and mobility
  • autoethnography
  • assistive technology
  • technology interdependence
  • wayfinding