Literature Reviews

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

• Unintended Machine Learning Biases as Social Barriers for Persons with Disabilities

  Ben Hutchinson, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Remi Denton, Kellie Webster, Yu Zhong, Stephen Denuyl (2020) — SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing

  This paper from Google's Ethical AI team provides concrete empirical evidence that widely deployed NLP models encode measurable biases against people with disabilities, creating social barriers through technology. The authors examine three layers of …

  • machine learning bias
  • NLP
  • toxicity detection
  • sentiment analysis
  • disability representation
  • content moderation
  • BERT
  • word embeddings
  • social barriers
  • stereotyping