"Hey, Can You Add Captions?": The Critical Infrastructuring Practices of Neurodiverse People on TikTok

Accessibility efforts, how we can make the world usable and useful to as many people possible, have focused on support allow for autonomy independence of with disabilities, neurodivergencies, chronic conditions, older adults. Despite these not all technology is designed or implemented everyone's needs. TikTok. Recently, a community-organized push by creators general users TikTok urged platform add accessibility features, such closed captioning, more use greater ease. Through an interview study exploring experiences creatives TikTok, explore creative practices ADHD those who experience similar challenges, focusing kinds they create through their work. We find that engage in critical infrastructuring--a process bottom-up (re)design--to accessible despite challenges presents them creating augmenting video editing captioning infrastructures. then reflect introduction top-down infrastructure - implementation auto-captioning feature shifts creatives. infrastructuring, were revising broader sociotechnical capabilities own needs well community. discuss routine infrastructuring form incidental care work highlight evolving construct, forwarding concept contextual accessibility.