Accessibility worsens for blind and low-vision readers of academic PDFs
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Documented evidence shows declining accessibility in scholarly materials and persistent barriers to full participation in research.
“It is crucial to address this gap given documented evidence of declining accessibility in scholarly materials [45, 66] and persistent barriers to full participation in research.”
From "I Don't Trust Any Professional Research Tool": A Re-Imagination of Knowledge Production Workflows by, with, and for Blind and Low-Vision Researchers (2026) · cites this paper as [66]
Less than 3% of scholarly PDFs meet basic accessibility standards.
“With less than 3% of scholarly PDFs meeting basic accessibility standards [45, 66]”
From "I Don't Trust Any Professional Research Tool": A Re-Imagination of Knowledge Production Workflows by, with, and for Blind and Low-Vision Researchers (2026) · cites this paper as [66]
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Wang, L. L., Cachola, I., Bragg, J., Cheng, E. Y.-Y., Haupt, C., Latzke, M., Kuehl, B., van Zuylen, M., Wagner, L., & Weld, D. S. (2021) · arXiv · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.00076 · Cited by 22 · see citing works
Kumar, A., & Wang, L. L. (2024) · The 26th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility · doi:10.1145/3663548.3675634 · Cited by 18 · see citing works
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Beyond the Visual: Achieving Accessibility in Scientific Figures
Ramsey, H., & Schröder, I. (2025) · ACS Chemical Health & Safety · doi:10.1021/acs.chas.4c00141 · Cited by 3 · see citing works
Khan, O., & Seo, J. (2026) · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3772318.3791242 · Cited by 1 · see citing works
- Authors
- Singh Chawla, D.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2024-12-11
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W4405268953
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 2
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1
- FWCI
- 2.10
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Nature (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Digital Accessibility for Disabilities
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › Information Systems and Management › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Keywords
- accessibility, blind readers, preprints, scholarly publishing, accessibility standards, screen readers
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