For our analysis, we built custom datasets containing conversation threads from, different accessibility and general user forums. To ensure fair comparisons between general forums and accessibility forums, we restricted the type of threads to include only software-related discussions, where people focused on various technical and usage issues associated with an assortment of computer applications. For this purpose, we mainly considered forums where users were likely to discuss software-related topics, e.g., JAWS, NV Access, Reddit, Invision community, and Stack-overflow. All discussion threads were in English. For each example in the datasets, we captured the thread URL, posts from every user in the thread, the chronological order of posts, the username for each post, and the date/time associated with each post. To collect the threads from the forums, we used the publicly available Web Scraper tool. All captured data was stored in (csv) files.
Accessibility_forum - Dataset.xlsx – This file contains the data from accessibility forum.
Regular_forum - Dataset.xlsx – This file contains data from general forum.
Linguistic-Psycho-linguistic Analysis.xlsx