Beyond Access into Accessibility

Accessibility, transcription, and access everywhere

K. Bain S. Basson A. Faisman D. Kanevsky Accessibility in the workplace and in academic settings has increased dramatically for users with disabilities, driven by greater awareness, legislative mandate, and technological improvements. Gaps, however, remain. For persons who are deaf and hard of hearing in particular, full participation requires complete access to audio materials, both for live s...

Beyond Access

Beyond Accessibility: Lifting Perceptual Limitations for Everyone

Proceedings of the CHI 2017 Workshop on Amplification and Augmentation of Human Perception, May 07, 2017, Denver, CO, USA. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Abstract We propose that accessibility research can lay the foundation for technology that can be used to augment the perception of everyone. To show how this can be achieved, we present three case studies of our research in which w...

Accessibility Support with the ACCESS Framework

Equitable access to the digital economy is predicated on the usability of the devices that are used to access electronic goods and services. For novice users with special interaction requirements, current arrangements for enabling accessibility support are sub-optimal. In this paper, we describe the ACCESS Framework, an open-source, plug-in enabled software framework designed to address some of...

Access Technologies and Accessibility for Inclusion

“Access technology” (AT) is a term used to discuss assistive and adaptive technologies. While these terms are often used interchangeably, “access technology” is proposed insofar as the idea of “assistive” may be understood as redundant and condescending, since every technology can be perceived as assistive in one way or another (Ladner, 2010). The United States Assistive Technology Act (Technol...