Literature Reviews

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

• Accessibility Education for Software Engineers: Evaluating the Impact of Game-Based Learning

  P D Parthasarathy, Swaroop Joshi (2026) — ACM Transactions on Computing Education

  Parthasarathy and Joshi address a persistent industry problem: despite 25 years of WCAG, only 5.2% of top web homepages fully conform, and organizations consistently report that staff lack accessibility skills. Academic curricula are slowly integrati…

  • accessibility education
  • game-based learning
  • serious games
  • WCAG
  • software engineering
  • gamification
  • workplace training
  • design-based research

• Digital Accessibility Education in Context: Expert Perspectives on Building Capacity in Academia and the Workplace

  Andy Coverdale, Sarah Lewthwaite, Sarah Horton (2024) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

  This substantial qualitative study examines how socio-cultural contexts shape digital accessibility education in both academic and workplace settings. The researchers engaged 55 experienced accessibility educators through an expert panel method (30 p…

  • accessibility education
  • pedagogy
  • higher education
  • workplace training
  • communities of practice
  • qualitative research

• Teaching accessibility as a shared endeavour: building capacity across academic and workplace contexts

  Andy Coverdale, Sarah Lewthwaite, Sarah Horton (2022) — Proceedings of the 19th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

  This short paper reports on qualitative research with 30 expert accessibility educators from academia and the workplace, drawn from a larger study called "Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set" (2019-2024). Using expert panel method — a par…

  • accessibility education
  • pedagogy
  • higher education
  • workplace training
  • capacity building
  • organizational accessibility
  • cross-disciplinary