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Digital Accessibility for Disabilities

Digital Accessibility for Disabilities is a research topic within Human Factors and Ergonomics. Science Explorer counts 8.3k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on web accessibility, usability evaluation, and the digital disability divide. It explores topics such as the impact of accessibility barriers, user experience for individuals with disabilities, e-government website accessibility, and the social impact of technology on people with disabilities.

  • Web Accessibility
  • Disability Divide
  • Usability Evaluation
  • Accessibility Guidelines
  • Digital Inclusion
  • User Experience
  • E-Government Websites
  • Screen Reader Users
  • Mobile Accessibility
  • Social Impact
Research works
8.3k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
849
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+26%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Digital Accessibility for Disabilities

Which countries lead Digital Accessibility for Disabilities research?

By volume, the United States and India publish the most (532 and 165 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 532 works
  2. 2 India 165 works
  3. 3 Brazil 138 works
  4. 4 United Kingdom 90 works
  5. 5 Spain 65 works
  6. 6 Indonesia 53 works
  7. 7 China 50 works
  8. 8 Germany 48 works
  9. 9 Canada 47 works
  10. 10 Italy 44 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 43.2%India: 13.4%Brazil: 11.2%United Kingdom: 7.3%6 others listed: 24.9%43%largest
United States532 · 43.2%India165 · 13.4%Brazil138 · 11.2%United Kingdom90 · 7.3%6 others listed307 · 24.9%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Digital Accessibility for Disabilities research?

By volume in 2022-now, University of Washington publishes the most Digital Accessibility for Disabilities research, followed by Rochester Institute of Technology and University of California, Irvine.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 University of WashingtonUnited States 23 works
  2. 2 Rochester Institute of TechnologyUnited States 15 works
  3. 3 University of California, IrvineUnited States 14 works
  4. 4 University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 12 works
  5. 5 University of North TexasUnited States 11 works
  6. 6 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 8 works
  7. 7 University of LisbonPortugal 8 works
  8. 8 Bulgarian Academy of SciencesBulgaria 8 works
  9. 9 National Research CouncilItaly 7 works
  10. 10 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Digital Accessibility for Disabilities?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Digital Accessibility for Disabilities include J. Mueller, Carlos Manuel Duarte and D. Gareth Evans.

  1. 1 J. Mueller France 178k citations
  2. 2 Carlos Manuel Duarte Saudi Arabia 152k citations
  3. 3 D. Gareth Evans United Kingdom 137k citations
  4. 4 Nils Gehlenborg United States 125k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Digital Accessibility for Disabilities?

The most cited paper in Digital Accessibility for Disabilities is "Journal of Universal Computer Science" (Arto K. Salomaa, Cristian S. Calude, Hermann A. Maurer, 2020), with 3,394 citations. Next come "Accessibility of information on the web" (1,357) and "Predictors of Assistive Technology Abandonment" (1,006).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Journal of Universal Computer Science Arto K. Salomaa, Cristian S. Calude, Hermann A. Maurer · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) Open access 7 Apr 2020 3,394
2 Accessibility of information on the web Steve Lawrence, Clyde Lee Giles · Nature 8 Jul 1999 1,357
3 Predictors of Assistive Technology Abandonment Betsy Phillips, Hongxin John Zhao · Assistive Technology 30 Jun 1993 1,006
4 Web content accessibility guidelines 1.0 Wendy A. Chisholm, Gregg C. Vanderheiden, Ian J. Jacobs · interactions Jul 2001 989
5 Intensive Remedial Instruction for Children with Severe Reading Disabilities Joseph K. Torgesen, Ann W. Alexander, Richard K. Wagner et al. · Journal of Learning Disabilities 2001 980
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Digital Accessibility for Disabilities research done?

The largest centres of Digital Accessibility for Disabilities research in 2022-now are Seattle (United States), São Paulo (Brazil), London (United Kingdom) and New York (United States). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Seattle.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 SeattleUnited States 26 works
  2. 2 São PauloBrazil 23 works
  3. 3 LondonUnited Kingdom 21 works
  4. 4 New YorkUnited States 17 works
  5. 5 RochesterUnited States 17 works
  6. 6 MadridSpain 16 works
  7. 7 IrvineUnited States 14 works
  8. 8 TokyoJapan 13 works
  9. 9 College ParkUnited States 12 works
  10. 10 LisbonPortugal 12 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. SeattleUS · 25.9 works7.2×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Digital Accessibility for Disabilities than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Digital Accessibility for Disabilities?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Washington, University of California, Irvine and Carnegie Mellon University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%20%40%mean 29.0833%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of Califo…Carnegie Mellon Univ…University of North …University of Washin…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1University of WashingtonUnited States 67.633.6%11.9×23 +34.4%
2University of California, IrvineUnited States 66.146.0%13.2×14 +320.7%
3Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States 45.837.0%12.0×8 +44.7%
4University of North TexasUnited States 40.934.1%25.5×11 +411.2%
5Rochester Institute of TechnologyUnited States 32.815.2%74.2×15 +34.0%
6University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States 28.38.6%12.2×12 +34.4%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Digital Accessibility for Disabilities, country by country

Is Digital Accessibility for Disabilities research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 26% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Digital Accessibility for Disabilities.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Digital Accessibility for Disabilities as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0072% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Digital Accessibility for Disabilities0.0096% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Digital Accessibility for Disabilities over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Digital Accessibility for Disabilities10.0% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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