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

  • Maitraye Das
  • Abir Saha

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

  • Omar Khan
  • JooYoung Seo

"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

  • Omar Khan
  • JooYoung Seo

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

  • Katsuki Ono

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