Tackling the Lack of a Practical Guide in Disability-Centered Research

EJ McDonnell, KA Mack, K Gerling, K Spiel… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility research strives to develop technology that is useful for disabled people, but
the research processes that we engage in do not always center disabled people in a way …

Living disability theory: Reflections on access, research, and design

M Hofmann, D Kasnitz, J Mankoff… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Accessibility research and disability studies are intertwined fields focused on, respectively,
building a world more inclusive of people with disability and understanding and elevating …

Accessibility Research and Users with Multiple Disabilities or Complex Needs

A Theil, C Anderton, C Creed, N Olson, RJ Holt… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Conventionally, the accessibility research community centers most of its efforts on designing
assistive technologies and systems related to single categories of impairments. Although …

A11yFutures: Envisioning the Future of Accessibility Research

J Mankoff, KA Mack, J Wiese, KA Crawford… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The future of accessibility research is a topic we take up every day as researchers; yet it is
important also to step back and ask ourselves about the most important, and overlooked …

Anticipate and adjust: Cultivating access in human-centered methods

K Mack, E McDonnell, V Potluri, M Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Methods are fundamental to doing research and can directly impact who is included in
scientific advances. Given accessibility research's increasing popularity and pervasive …

Accessibility research in the pandemic: Making a difference in the quality of life for people with disabilities

J Lazar - Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In his ASSETS 2020 keynote talk, Dr. Lazar discusses how technology accessibility
researchers and practitioners have been working during the pandemic to improve the quality …

Maintaining the accessibility ecosystem: A multi-stakeholder analysis of accessibility in higher education

KA Mack, NA Sidik, A Desai, EJ McDonnell… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
People with disabilities face extra hardship in institutions of higher education because of
accessibility barriers built into the educational system. While prior work investigates the …

Interdependence as a frame for assistive technology research and design

CL Bennett, E Brady, SM Branham - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we describe interdependence for assistive technology design, a frame
developed to complement the traditional focus on independence in the Assistive Technology …

My path to becoming an accessibility researcher

RE Ladner - ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Because I started out in mathematics and theoretical computer science I am often asked how
I got involved in accessibility research and in trying to increase the participation of people …

A large user pool for accessibility research with representative users

M Dee, VL Hanson - Proceedings of the 16th international acm …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
A critical element of accessibility research is the exploration and evaluation of ideas with
representative users. However, it is often difficult to recruit these users, particularly in a …