Publications
On this page you will find links to published articles within our research areas.
Discursive Discrimination: Ableism and Linguicism in Governmental Documentation – The Case of Swedish Sign Language
This critical discourse analysis shows that Swedish legislative documentation regarding STS, rests on unclear intertextual referencing, common-sense implied agreements, and discursive discrimination through linguicism and ableism, specifically audism.The article was published on-line: 15 December 2025, Science open
This link leads you to the Swedish summary of the article, Om teckenspråkets status
Online collaboration for user participation in co-design
The aim of this study was to describe prerequisites for online collaboration for user participation in co-design of online digital services as perceived by people with impairments and to develop requirements for how online collaboration should be designed to be accessible for all participants. An exploratory study was conducted in parallel to activities in two co-design projects. Researchers, accessibility experts, designers and 31 members of disability organisations participated. All participants had lived experience of impairments.
Authors: Stefan Johansson, Marika Jonsson, Jan Gulliksen and Catharina Gustavsson
The article was published online: 04 Jun 2025, Taylor & Francis
How social information functioned during the covid-19 pandemic for people with disabilities
Our research into how social information functioned during the covid-19 pandemic for people with disabilities has resulted in a scientific article.
Authors Karl Gummesson and Catharina Gustavsson, Center for Clinical Research in Dalarna (CKF) and Karin Forsell and Stefan Johansson, Begripsam.
The article was published in the Scandinavian Journal of disability research, 2024
- Prerequisites for digital participation – the case of digital health technology and people with impairments, opens new tab External link, opens in new window.
Above link is a chapter included in this book:
The Routledge International Handbook of Disability and Global Health, opens new tab External link, opens in new window.
Stefan Johansson, Per-Olof Hedvall, Jan Gulliksen, Lena von Koch, Catharina Gustavsson, 2024 - Development and Evaluation of eHealth Services Regarding Accessibility: Scoping Literature Review, opens new tab External link, opens in new window.
Marika Jonsson, Stefan Johansson, Dena Hussain, Jan Gulliksen, Catharina Gustavsson, 2023 - Disability digital divide: survey of accessibility of eHealth services as perceived by people with and without impairment, opens new tab External link, opens in new window.
Linda Pettersson, Stefan Johansson, Ingrid Demmelmaier, Catharina Gustavsson, 2023 - "Accessibility Denied. Understanding Inaccessibility and Everyday Resistance to Inclusion for Persons with Disabilities", one chapter, opens new tab External link, opens in new window.
An anthology about (in)accessibility, by the publisher Routledge, based in England, 2021.
Mia Larsdotter, together with more authors. - Disability digital divide: the use of the internet, smartphones, computers and tablets among people with disabilities in Sweden, opens new tab External link, opens in new window.
An article based on Begripsam's survey "SMFOI–Swedes with Impairments and the Internet", 2020.
Stefan Johansson, Begripsam, Catharina Gustavsson, Center for Clinical Research Dalarna, Jan Gulliksen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology - Design for participation, and inclusion will follow. Disabled people and the digital society, pdf, opens new tab pdf, 4 MB, opens in new window.
Doctoral Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 2019
Stefan Johansson