Hacking, switching, combining: understanding and supporting DIY assistive technology design by blind people

J Herskovitz, A Xu, R Alharbi, A Guo - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Existing assistive technologies (AT) often fail to support the unique needs of blind and
visually impaired (BVI) people. Thus, BVI people have become domain experts in …

Psst: Enabling blind or visually impaired developers to author sonifications of streaming sensor data

V Potluri, J Thompson, J Devine, B Lee… - Proceedings of the 35th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We present the first toolkit that equips blind and visually impaired (BVI) developers with the
tools to create accessible data displays. Called PSST (Physical computing Streaming …

A Systematic Review of Ability-diverse Collaboration through Ability-based Lens in HCI

L Xiao, M Bandukda, K Angerbauer, W Lin… - Proceedings of the CHI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In a world where diversity is increasingly recognised and celebrated, it is important for HCI to
embrace the evolving methods and theories for technologies to reflect the diversity of its …

Co11ab: Augmenting accessibility in synchronous collaborative writing for people with vision impairments

M Das, TB McHugh, AM Piper, D Gergle - … of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Collaborative writing is an integral part of academic and professional work. Although some
prior research has focused on accessibility in collaborative writing, we know little about how …

Understanding Digital Content Creation Needs of Blind and Low Vision People

L Zhang, S Sun, L Findlater - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Creative activities play an essential role in everyday life. Recently, there has been
increasing interest in the accessibility community to support blind and low vision (BLV) …

Tutoria11y: Enhancing Accessible Interactive Tutorial Creation by Blind Audio Producers

A Saha, TB McHugh, AM Piper - … of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Audio production is a skilled practice that requires mastery in highly complex software and
hardware tools. Blind audio producers face a steep learning curve where they must learn …

Advocacy as Access Work: How People with Visual Impairments Gain Access to Digital Banking in India

V Kameswaran, M Marathe - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Research in accessibility and assistive technology often assumes that technology is within
easy reach, that is, people with disabilities are able to obtain technologies so long as they …

Accessibility of ui frameworks and libraries for programmers with visual impairments

M Pandey, S Bondre, S O'Modhrain… - 2022 IEEE Symposium …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The availability of numerous UI components, the promise of accessibility, and cross-platform
support have made UI frameworks (eg, Flutter, Xamarin, React Native) and libraries (eg …

Usability, accessibility and social entanglements in advanced tool use by vision impaired graduate students

K Shinohara, M Tamjeed, M McQuaid… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Despite increasing work investigating the accessibility of research tools, most accessibility
research has traditionally focused on popular, mainstream, or web technologies. We …

Blending Accessibility in UI Framework Documentation to Build Awareness

M Pandey, T Dong - Proceedings of the 25th International ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The lack of accessibility awareness among industry professionals is one of the reasons for
rampant inaccessible websites and applications. This problem is exacerbated by the …