Most people working within the higher education sector understand the importance of
making e-learning accessible to students with disabilities, yet it is not always clear exactly …

Purpose: Recently, interest in usability has grown in the technical communication (TC) field,
but we lack a current cohesive literature review that reflects this new growth. This article …

Data visualizations are now widely used across many disciplines. However, many of them
are not easily accessible for visually impaired people. In this work, we use three-staged …

Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment
would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices …

Research problem: Interest in plain-language communication has been growing in many
sectors of business and government, but knowledge about its development is scattered and …

Since 1999 the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) have provided a solid
basis for implementation of accessible Web design. However it is argued that in the context …

Today websites are the tools most commonly used to access information. People with
disabilities face difficulties accessing or using information, and the importance of website …

Rhetorical Accessability is the first text to bring the fields of technical communication and
disability studies into conversation. The two fields also share a pragmatic foundation in their …

We argue that while work to optimize the accessibility of the World Wide Web through the
publication and dissemination of a range of guidelines is of great importance, there is also …

Effortless reading remains an issue for many Web users, despite a large number of
readability guidelines available to designers. This paper presents a study of manual and …