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

• Misfitting With AI: How Blind People Verify and Contest AI Errors

  Rahaf Alharbi, Pa Lor, Jaylin Herskovitz, Sarita Schoenebeck, Robin N. Brewer (2024) — ASSETS '24: Proceedings of the 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

  This paper presents an in-depth qualitative study with 26 blind participants examining how they encounter, verify, and contest errors produced by AI-enabled visual assistance technologies (AI VAT) such as Seeing AI, Be My Eyes, and ChatGPT. While bli…

  • blind users
  • artificial intelligence
  • visual assistance technology
  • explainable AI
  • AI errors
  • verification
  • responsible AI
  • disability studies
  • misfitting