Accepted Papers
We are pleased to share the titles and authors of accepted technical papers (in
alphabetical order).
A Recipe for Access: Visually Oriented Recipe Instructions as an Accessibility Barrier for Blind and Low-Vision Cooks
- Nathan Aileo
- Syed Masum Billah
A Scoping Review of Human–Computer Interaction Research on the Accessibility of Data Visualizations: New Technologies, Procedures, and Designs
- Saad Hassan
- Areen Khalaila
- Dylan Cashman
- Ather Sharif
- Rebecca Faust
Ableism Unchecked: A Literature Review of Disability Misconceptions in Computing Education
- Yasmine N. Elglaly
- Ryan J Critchlow
- Kristen Shinohara
- Catherine M. Baker
Access as Practice: Deaf-Tech Interaction in Motion
- Robin Angelini
- Katta Spiel
Accessibility in Extended Reality: A Systematic Review of Accessibility Research on Extended Reality Published in the ACM Digital Library From 2000 to 2025
- Sanzida Mojib Luna
- Jiangnan Xu
- Kristen Shinohara
- Garreth W. Tigwell
- Konstantinos Papangelis
Accommodation Negotiations: Modeling the Privacy and Access Risks of Accommodation Requests by Disabled Professionals at Academic Conferences
- Jay Rodolitz
- Caren Chung
- Saan Similien
- Megan Hofmann
Are Caption Metrics Broken? Latency, Deaf and Hard of Hearing User Ratings, and Cross-Technology Bias
- Bernard Thompson
- James Waller
- Luz Fanny Calderon Torres
- Lu Ming
- Mariana Arroyo Chavez
- Dante Conway
- Raja Kushalnagar
- Christian Vogler
Audo-Sight: Assistive Conversational Perception through Collaborative Edge-Cloud Intelligence
- Jacob Lee Bradshaw
- Mohsen Riahi Alam
- Bhanuja Ainary
- Mohsen Amini Salehi
Balancing Safety and Autonomy: Accessibility-Oriented Interventions in Generative AI for Cognitive Impairment
- Yibo Meng
- Jingruo Chen
- Lyumanshan Ye
- Bingyi Liu
- Zhicong Lu
Bespoke Visual Assistance: What and How do Blind and Low-Vision People Create with Agentic Programming?
- Ellie Seehorn
- Gene S-H Kim
- Aziz N. Zeidieh
- Ather Jammoa
- Kunyeul Lee
- Aditi Shah
- Jaylin Herskovitz
- Anhong Guo
- Venkatesh Potluri
Between Stigma and Swipe: An Examination of Dating Apps for Disabled Users Through the Lens of the Access–Choice–Pleasure Model
- Zeynep Yildiz
- Nadja Scherer
- Kathrin Gerling
Beyond Harassment: Exploring the Harm Experienced by People with Disabilities in Social Virtual Reality
- Xinran Adeline Li
- Kexin Zhang
- Yuhang Zhao
- Yaxing Yao
Beyond LLMs: Small Multimodal Models for Semantic Accessibility Validation of Alternative Texts
- Nicola Leonardi
- Marco Manca
- Fabio Paternò
Bigger than the EAR BOX: A Theory-Grounded Review of XR Accessibility Research for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities
- Shuxu Huffman
- Michaela Okosi
- Jose Merino
- Tifanie Bouchara
- Abraham Glasser
- Christian Vogler
- Raja Kushalnagar
Breaking Word Barriers: Predicting Word-Level Reading Difficulty in People with and without Dyslexia
- Maedeh Hosseinpour
- Borano Llana
- Yusra Suhail
- Kushas Khadka
- Shaun Wallace
Bridging the Gap Between Perceived and Actual Accessibility in Front-End Frameworks
- Yagho Miguel da Silva
- Marcelo Martins da Silva
- Ingrid Teixeira Monteiro
- Carla Bezerra
Brushstrokes of Autonomy: Exploring Artistic Expression for People with Motor Impairments through an AR-Guided Robotic Arm
- João Ferreira
- Leonardo Bizzaro
- Hugo Simão
- Beatriz Nogueira
- Isabel Neto
- Daniel Jimeno-Huete
- Sara Reina-Gutiérrez
- Antonio Oliviero
- João Bimbo
- João Guerreiro
- Tiago Guerreiro
Can Dialogue and Role Improve LLM Sidewalk Image Descriptions Across Mobility Groups?
- Akihiro Miyata
- Kenro Go
- Ryo Matsubayashi
- Yusuke Ichikawa
"Catching lightning in a bottle": How Blind or Low Vision Creators Navigate Ideation Across Creative Domains
- Mingyi Li
- Yutian Shi
- Cynthia L Bennett
- Maitraye Das
Characterizing Human Prompting in Mixed Reality Spelling for Nonspeaking Autistic Users
- Desiree Leal
- Maham Jamal
- Sana Wahab
- Travis Dow
- Vikram K. Jaswal
- Lorans Alabood
- Diwakar Krishnamurthy
Chronic Access: Understanding the Accessible Technology Practices of People with Chronic Health Disabilities
- Emma J McDonnell
- Tae E. Jones
- Wanda Pratt
"Coder first, advocate second, college student third": The Liminality of Going to College as a Blind Computing Student
- Isabela Figueira
- Josahandi M Cisneros
- Stacy Branham
ColorA11Y: Enhancing Creative Design Workflows with Just-in-Time Color Accessibility Recommendations
- Alexa Siu
- Rajiv Jain
- Abhinav Kannan
- Jose Echevarria
- Mary Ann (MJ) Jawili
- Yalpi Shiva Prasad
- Rick Treitman
- Garreth W. Tigwell
- Jonathan Lazar
Compounded Access: How Chinese Neurodivergent Students and Professionals Navigate English as a Second Language
- Qiushi (Anya) Liang
- Rudaiba Adnin
- Maitraye Das
Context-Aware, AI-Powered ALT Text Generation for Lecture Visuals: A Multimodal Approach via Slide Decks and Speech Transcripts
- Aybala Turkarslan
- Vainavi Hemalbhai Thakkar
- Rodas Tekle
- Thomas Chen
- Jesse J Martinez
- Jennifer Mankoff
Crossroads: A Self-Administered Digital Cognitive Assessment for Older Adults via Fine-Finger Tracking on Touchscreen-based Devices
- Sujit Kumar Kamaraj
- Vineet Pandey
Design and Evaluation of an AI-Based American Sign Language Video Comprehension Tool: Exploring the Benefits and Use of Automatic Segmentation and Sign Lookup
- Chaelin Kim
- Denise Crochet
- Maty Bohacek
- Saad Hassan
Designing Beyond Fluency: Imagining Speech Technology through Speculative Design with People Who Stutter
- Peiyao Liu
- Jingjin Li
- Rebecca Lietz
- Shaomei Wu
- Norman Makoto Su
Designing for Dyslexia Reflection: Empowerment Through Insight and Customization
- Nanditha Sathyanarayanan
- Stella Boess
- Christina Schneegass
Designing for Ring Camera Use: Spatial Interaction Strategies of Blind and Low Vision People
- Ayaka Tsutsui
- Xiyue Wang
- João Guerreiro
- Hironobu Takagi
- Yoichi Ochiai
- Chieko Asakawa
Designing for What Cannot Be Seen: Supporting Embodied String Learning for Musicians with Blindness and Low-Vision
- Shi Shi
- Lingyun Chen
- Zitao Zhang
- Amanda Draper
- Eli Blevis
Designing TIBBL: A Tangible Inclusive Block-Based Language for Widening Access to Programming
- Alexandre Nevsky
- Xinyun He
- Samantha Callaghan
- Elliott Hall
- Zihao Lu
- Tiffany Ong
- Timothy Neate
- Alex Hadwen-Bennett
Everyday Technology Practices of Adults with ADHD: Insights for Assistive Technology Design
- Taggert D Smith
- Andy Smithwick
- Oishani Bandopadhyay
- Imani N. S. Munyaka
Exploring How Warmth and Competence Shape Trust in Medical Voice Agents with Blind Users
- Wei Zhang
- Yi Xiao
- Hanlu Yu
- Yazhou Feng
- Danlu Yin
- Jinhao Qiao
Exploring Lived Experience and the Role of Technology in Cycling for People Who Have a Mobility Disability
- Lukas Strobel
- Kathrin Gerling
Fluctuating Access: How Parents and Teachers Support Learning for Children with Cerebral Visual Impairment
Folk-Methods' in the Use of Physical Activity Tracking Tools among Users with Chronic Fatigue
- Myfanwy Fflur
- Sarah Clinch
- Markel Vigo
Fostering The Inner Coach: Identifying Opportunities For Future Time Management Assistive Features With Emerging Adults With ADHD
- Browning Blair
- Mary Love Gurrieri
- Townsend C McDonald
- Rachel E Wood
- Kristina N Randall
- Emma Dixon
From Coarse Search to Precise Alignment: Auditory Guidance for Non-Visual Target Acquisition in VR
- Kengo Tanaka
- Renato Alexandre Ribeiro
- João Guerreiro
- Hironobu Takagi
- Yoichi Ochiai
- Chieko Asakawa
From Compliance to Creativity: A Longitudinal Study of How Accessibility Constraints Impact Early-Career, Small-Company Mobile Designers
- Anisa Callis
- Sarah Andrew
- Maya Lane
- Garreth W. Tigwell
- Anne Spencer Ross
From Grasping to Speaking: Generative AI-Based Environment-Grounded VR Communication Training for Autistic Individuals
- Ziming Li
- Roshan L Peiris
From Interpreter to Algorithm? Language Ideologies, Access Labor and (In)Dependency in Deaf–AI Interactions
- Robin Angelini
- Maartje De Meulder
- Nina Bernard-Tran
- Katta Spiel
From Notification to Completion: Rethinking Reminder Systems for People Living with Dementia
- Stephen Becker
- Susmitha Gurram
- Alisha Pradhan
- Emma Dixon
From Reports to Resolutions: Accessibility in Practice Through Moodle's Issue Tracker
- Ziyao He
- Syed Fatiul Huq
- Yirui He
- Hoa Khanh Dam
- Sam Malek
Helping the Helper: LLM-Assisted Problem Articulation for Older Adults Seeking Technology Support
- Hasti Sharifi
- Homaira Huda Shomee
- Melissa Lamar
- Sourav Medya
- Debaleena Chattopadhyay
HoldLight: Making Indoor Climbing More Accessible for Blind and Low-Vision Climbers through Layered Route Preview and Real-Time Next-Hold Guidance
- Chenyu Du
- Junyan He
- Jiafei Sun
- Yue Li
"I Don't Want My Mental Health App To Give Me Mental Health Barriers": Unpacking The Need For Digital Mental Health Tracking Services With And For The Blind Community
"I Just Take Every Situation as It Comes": Exploring How Weather Affects Blind and Low Vision Pedestrians in Urban Environments
- Waqar Hassan Khan
- Isaac Buo
- Ariane Middel
"I'm trying not to get hacked:" How Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Navigate Security and Privacy Notifications
- Hailey L Johnson
- Julia Nonnenkamp
- Bilge Mutlu
- Rahul Chatterjee
Invoking Nemo: Designing and Evaluating a Custom Voice Assistant for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
- Madhuka Nadeeshani
- Jacqueline Johnstone
- Kirsten Ellis
- Swamy Ananthanarayan
"It'd Be an Extension of Who I Am": Speculating on DIY Prosthetic Making Across Diverse Resource Contexts
- Mingqi Wang
- Leila Aflatoony
- Yuhan Hu
- Saquib Sarwar
- Michelle Kim
"It's Like Drinking from a Fire Hose": Understanding and Characterizing Video Learning Experiences for Individuals with ADHD
- Hanxiu 'Hazel' Zhu
- Weiyu Zhang
- Ru Wang
- Yuhang Zhao
Jugaad Justice: Grassroots DIY-AT as Substitute Infrastructure in India
- Tigmanshu Bhatnagar
- Bex Manlove
- Soma Banerjee
- Sayomdeb Mukherjee
- Catherine Holloway
- Victoria Austin
Learning Python as a Blind Programmer in an AI-Mediated Environment: An Autoethnographic Study
- Weijun Zhang
- JooYoung Seo
Leaving the Field: Working with Teachers to Integrate Computational Thinking in Mixed-Visual Ability Classrooms' Activities
- Filipa Rocha
- Beatriz Nogueira
- Isabel Neto
- Tiago Guerreiro
- Hugo Nicolau
Leveling the Playing Field: Temporal Video Segmentation for Individuals with ADHD in Computing Education
- Veronica Pimenova
- Chris Y Lee
- Baramee (Bing) Bhakdibhumi
- Simon Chu
- Andrew Begel
Me, Myself, and My Voice: Exploring Cultural and Linguistic Identity in AAC AI-generated Voices
- Tobias M Weinberg
- Aaleyah Lewis
- Ricardo E. Gonzalez Penuela
- Weicong Hong
- Jennifer Mankoff
- Thijs Roumen
"Mindful, but Not Special": Mutual Accommodation Between Blind, Low Vision, and Sighted Workers in the Workplace
- Sotaro Yokoi
- Makoto Kobayashi
- Chi-Lan Yang
- Takuji Narumi
- Hideaki Kuzuoka
"Movement is your ability to engage with the world": Opportunities for Reflecting, Revealing, and Hiding Visible and Invisible Disabilities Through Avatar Movement in VR
- Emory James Edwards
- Edward Cutrell
- John Tang
- Martez E Mott
Sociotechnical Tensions in Navigating a New Disability: Credibility, Coordination, and Identity
- Wenhan Xue
- Kelly Ramos Pereira
- Taniyah Hicks
- Maitraye Das
- Vinitha Gadiraju
Navigating the Complexity of Hearing Loss: Redesigning Hearing Test Results Through Participatory Design with Older Adults
- Xinran Peng
- Haoru Song
- Travis Riffle
- Patrick C. Shih
Navigational Agency and Assistive Technology: A Study With Visually Impaired Persons and Their Companions
- Marzia Alizada
- Thomas Westin
- Peter Idestam-Almquist
- Airi Lampinen
Negotiated Adoption of Health Sensing Systems: A Co-Design Study with Older Adults and Family Members
- Ruowen Niu
- Fan Lin
- Ziyang LIU
- Kaishun Wu
- Rachel L. Franz
Online Experiences and Safety of Neurodivergent Young People: A Mixed-Methods Study
- Kira Caroline Nurse
- Charith Perera
- Georgie Powell
Opportunities for AI-Enhanced Visual Story Creation by Blind and Low-Vision Children
- Arnavi Chheda-Kothary
- Jon E. Froehlich
- Jacob O. Wobbrock
Participation Without Power? A Systematic Review and Call to Center Shared Authority in Accessibility Research
- JiWoong (Joon) Jang
- Julia Liu
- Patrick Carrington
- Andrew Begel
Practices of Inclusion as a Bridge Toward Access Equity: The Privileged and Empowered Role of Computing Faculty Who Advise Disabled Doctoral Students
- Kristen Shinohara
- Michael J McQuaid
Predicting Balance Ability and Explaining Control Strategies from VR Motion Sensors: An Interpretable CoP-Derived Balance Score Approach for Multiple Sclerosis
- Md Irfan Pavel
- Nipa Anjum
- Alberto Cordova
- John Quarles
- M. Rasel Mahmud
Preserved Hierarchy, Inflated Courage: How Four LLMs Re-inscribe Chinese Disability Stereotypes Across Public and Community Perspectives
- Yurong Zhao
- Yunfei Bi
- Su-Jing Wang
Prompt and Circumstance: Evaluating Accessibility in LLM-Generated HTML Form Components
- Yumeng Ma
- Jacob O. Wobbrock
- Joe Devon
- Aaron Gustafson
- Michael Fairchild
- Jennifer Mankoff
- Venkatesh Potluri
Prompting Change in the Welfare State: Co-designing an LLM-Assisted Toolkit of Welfare Stories and Tips with Aphasia Communities
- Humphrey Curtis
- Timothy Neate
- Alistair Gentry
- Sioban Zacharek
- Sally McVicker
- Filip Bircanin
Q&A or Document-Based? The Effects of Interface Type on How Screen Reader Users Access Interconnected Documents
- Colleen F. Cipriano
- Yichun Zhao
- Miguel A Nacenta
- Kotaro Hara
- Jaylee Soh
Quantifying the Engagement Trap: Impact of Short-form Video Recommender Systems on Users with ADHD
- Vedad Misirlic
- Gregor Mayr
- Elisabeth Lex
QUARTZ: Qualitative Understanding via Accessible Representation and Visualization
Querying Multimodal Scientific Papers with AI: Practices and Preferences Across Blind, Low-Vision, and Sighted Scientists
- Arnavi Chheda-Kothary
- Lucy Lu Wang
- Joseph Chee Chang
- Jonathan Bragg
Reconfiguration of Ability: An Autoethnography of LLM-Mediated Development by a Developer with Severe Physical Disability
Reflections From A Clinical Trial: Examining Black Older Adults' Perceptions and Use of Digital Voice Assistants for Exercise
- Kelly B. Wagman
- Arthur Borem
- Lan Gao
- Marshini Chetty
"Remove the Floor, Remove the Chair": Co-Designing Minimalist VR Offices with Low Vision Users
- Julia Anken
- Michael Karl Artur Schneider
- Ria Prilutski
- Karin Müller
Robots as Proxies: Negotiating Dignity, Legibility and Accountability in Accessible Social Participation
- Hugo Simão
- Beatriz Nogueira
- Alicia (Hyun Jin) Lee
- Alexandre Bernardino
- Jodi L Forlizzi
- Tiago Guerreiro
Safety vs. Social Image: Co-Designing Protection Mechanisms Against Ableist Harassment with People with Disabilities in Social Virtual Reality
- Kexin Zhang
- Daniel Killough
- Xinran Adeline Li
- Yaxing Yao
- Yuhang Zhao
Scattered but Not Lost: Multimodal Access to Scatter Plots on Touchscreens for Users with Blindness and Low Vision
- Wilfredo Joshua Robinson Moore
- Medhani Kalal
- Jennifer L. Tennison
- Nicholas A Giudice
- Jenna Gorlewicz
Scratch as an Accessible Boundary Object: Three Co-Design Case Studies with People with Intellectual Disability
- Sara Muneeb
- Laurianne Sitbon
- Saminda Sundeepa Balasuriya
- Maria Hoogstrate
Seeing the Voice, Preserving the Self: A Participatory Design Approach to Deaf-Centric Text-to-Speech
- Shela Z Atemnkeng
- Patrick Boudreault
- Paige S DeVries
- Lloyd May
- Christian Vogler
"Should I use this or my mind?": Designing a Wearable Multimodal Tech Assistant for Older Adults Navigating Patient Portals
- Cynthia Orofo
- Kenneth Xiong
- Esther Aduamah
- Ashley Yang
- Tchenzie Guichette
- Jack Goode
- Paul Ruvolo
- Andrea Cuadra
SL4Fun: A Collaborative Game for Hearing and Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing Children for Bilingual Classrooms
- Matilde Tocha
- André Rodrigues
- Isabel Neto
- Hugo Nicolau
Spatial and View-Dependent Audio Description for Blind and Low-Vision Users in 360° Virtual Reality Musical Performances
- Khang Dang
- Prajwal Shah
- Sooyeon Lee
Supporting Allyship in Virtual Collaboration with Artificial Intelligence: A Scenario-Based Study
- Crescentia Jung
- Ricardo E. Gonzalez Penuela
- Prashita Biswas
- Seungyoon Kwon
- Shiri Azenkot
Synthesizing and Evaluating a Visual Feedback Framework for Accessible Content Creation
- Lotus Zhang
- Anh Hua
- Leah Findlater
The Effect of Self Disclosure on Perceived Competency of People Who Stutter in Online Job Interviews: A Cross-Cultural Study
- Yingting Chen
- Christopher Constantino
- Chi-Lan Yang
- Mizuki Aoki
- Shaomei Wu
The Procrustean Body: A Theoretical Analysis of Motion Capture from Critical Disability, Somaesthetic, and Posthuman Perspectives
- Clarice Hilton
- Dominic Potts
- Kathleen Hawkins
- Kris Halpin
- Nicci Halpin
- Annie Edwards
- Anna Seymour
- Marco Fyfe Pietro Gillies
- Imogen Fox
- Adam Stark
- Fredie Collins
- Phill Tew
- Seb Madgwick
- Tom Mitchell
"There is no such thing as barrier-free nature": Information, Trust, and Self-Determined Access to Nature
- Felix Fussenegger
- Katta Spiel
Toward Mixed-Ability Social Inclusion: Investigating VLM as a Sticker Interpreter for BLV Users in Online Group Chat
- Kaiyuan Tang
- Zhou Jiang
- Lixuan Huang
- Xin Lai
- Yang Jiao
Toward Scalable Audio Description Quality Control: A Workflow for Evaluating Human and VLM Raters
- Lana Do
- Gio Jung
- Andrew Taylor Scott
- Juvenal Francisco Barajas
- Alexander Mario Blum
- Shasta Ihorn
- Vassilis Athitsos
- Ilmi Yoon
Towards Accessible AI Literacy: Investigating How Teachers of Blind and Low-Vision Students Integrate Generative AI in Pedagogical Practices
- Rudaiba Adnin
- Abir Saha
- Maitraye Das
Towards Designing for (Dis)Trust in Technologies for Aging
- Muhid Hassan Risvy
- Dimitri Theodoratos
- Alisha Pradhan
Translating Blind and Low-Vision Users' Feedback into Domain-Specific Criteria for AI-Generated Alt Text: Evidence from E-Commerce
- Hyungwoo Song
- Minjeong Shin
- Jaehoon Choi
- Yeonjoon Kim
- Kyochul Jang
- Bongwon Suh
- Hyunggu Jung
Understanding Digital Game Authoring Practices of People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities using Scratch
- Hasani Gayani Kariyawasam Peradorapage
- Kirsten Ellis
- Swamy Ananthanarayan
VisionPulse: A Virtual Reality System Enabling Accessible Discovery and Navigation for Blind and Low Vision Users
- Samuel Martin
- Pooyan Fazli
- Hasti Seifi
"Walking a Straight Line through a Thick Fog": Exploring Invisible Labor and Reclaimed Identity Amongst Adult Students with ADHD
- Bethany Miatta Turay
- Alexandra To
"We Asked Ahead of Time and Got Each Other's Consent": Adaptation of Dating Apps as Sexual Consent Devices by Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Visually Impaired Online Daters
- Devin Tebbe
- Dylan Jenkins
- Douglas Zytko
What to Distinguish and How? Opportunities and Challenges of Augmenting Multiple, Cluttered Objects in Complex Scenes for People with Low Vision
- Yuheng Wu
- Ruijia Chen
- Jaewook Lee
- Jia Li
- Kexin Zhang
- Mengfong Lio
- Weibing Wang
- Sanbrita Mondal
- Jon E. Froehlich
- Yapeng Tian
- Yuhang Zhao
"What's going to happen after I'm gone?": Parent Perspectives on Technology in Supporting Independent Living for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
- Alexander Tyshka
- Andrea Macklem-Zabel
- Absalat Getachew
- Foong Ling Chen
- Wing-Yue Geoffrey Louie