Accessibility Across Borders
This work highlights a cross-cultural problem in digital design accessibility, but it is incremental as it builds on prior research without introducing new methods or data.
The paper addresses the need to examine how digital accessibility is considered by designers globally, particularly whether Western-developed accessibility resources align with diverse design approaches, but does not present specific results or numbers.
Since prior work has identified that cultural differences influence user design preferences and interaction methods, as well as emphasizing the need to reflect on the appropriateness of popular HCI principles, we believe that it is equally important to apply this inquiry to digital accessibility and how accessibility fits within the design process around the world. Our long-term plan is to build upon work in this area by investigating how digital designers in different parts of the world consider accessibility and whether current accessibility resources (often developed in the west) meet or conflict with their approach to design.