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 …

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 …

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 …

Challenges in Conducting Accessibility Research with Users with Multiple, Profound, or Complex Disabilities

A Theil - ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The lack of involvement of users with multiple disabilities or complex needs in accessibility
research is a problem that needs further attention from the field. Designing and evaluating …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Tell me what to do: designing for people with disabilities

D Georgakas - A11Y Unraveled: Become a Web Accessibility Ninja, 2023 - Springer
I can't tell you what to do as, unfortunately, we can't include everybody and we can't design
for all. At least, in the literal sense. But we might not even have to, in the majority of cases. In …

Future research directions for accessible social media

C Gleason, P Carrington, LB Chilton… - ACM SIGACCESS …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Social media platforms are deeply ingrained in society, and they offer many different spaces
for people to engage with others. Unfortunately, accessibility barriers prevent people with …

Promoting accessibility in the Zoom era

M Knight - Business and Professional Communication …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The pandemic has disrupted work all over the world, as has been much discussed.
Knowledge workers could move to online or virtual offices, while many service workers lost …