An uninteresting tour through why our research papers aren't accessible

JP Bigham, EL Brady, C Gleason, A Guo… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Our research is delivered as Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, and very few
include basic metadata to make them accessible to people with disabilities. As a result …

[PDF][PDF] PDF accessibility of research papers: What tools are needed for assessment and remediation?

AJ Rajkumar, J Lazar, JB Jordan, A Darvishy… - HICSS, 2020 - core.ac.uk
Trillions of documents online are in PDF format, but only a small amount of these PDF
documents include the necessary markup to make them accessible for people with …

Development and evaluation of a tool for assisting content creators in making pdf files more accessible

D Pradhan, T Rajput, AJ Rajkumar, J Lazar… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Most PDF documents are inaccessible for people with disabilities, creating barriers in
education, science, commerce, e-government, and recreation. Documents in PDF format are …

Creating accessible PDFs for conference proceedings

E Brady, Y Zhong, JP Bigham - … of the 12th International Web for All …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
A responsibility we have as researchers is to disseminate the results of our research widely.
A primary way we do this is through research publications. When these publications are not …

[PDF][PDF] The ScienceDirect accessibility journey: A case study

T Gies - Learned publishing, 2018 - academia.edu
This paper presents the journey towards accessible web product development in a large
international publishing and information analytics company as seen by an accessibility …

What do we mean by “accessibility research”? A literature survey of accessibility papers in CHI and ASSETS from 1994 to 2019

K Mack, E McDonnell, D Jain, L Lu Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility research has grown substantially in the past few decades, yet there has been
no literature review of the field. To understand current and historical trends, we created and …

Tackling the Lack of a Practical Guide in Disability-Centered Research

EJ McDonnell, KA Mack, K Gerling, K Spiel… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility research strives to develop technology that is useful for disabled people, but
the research processes that we engage in do not always center disabled people in a way …

Making accessible PDF documents

H Devine, A Gonzalez, M Hardy - … of the 11th ACM symposium on …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility features in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) help facilitate access to
electronic information for people with disabilities. This workshop explores how to create …

Anticipate and adjust: Cultivating access in human-centered methods

K Mack, E McDonnell, V Potluri, M Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Methods are fundamental to doing research and can directly impact who is included in
scientific advances. Given accessibility research's increasing popularity and pervasive …

Efficacy of film for raising awareness of diverse users

C Putnam, C Hanschke, A Rana - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Technology companies are increasingly acknowledging the need to make their products
usable for diverse users that include people with disabilities and aging populations; as a …