Posters and Demonstrations

The Poster and Demonstration Track is an opportunity to present late-breaking results, ongoing research projects, and speculative or innovative work in progress. This session is an ideal platform for researchers and practitioners to present their work, engage in discussion, and receive valuable feedback. Participants are invited to submit high-quality posters and demonstrations that present novel ideas, designs, techniques, systems, tools, evaluations, scientific investigations, methodologies, social issues, or policy issues related to any topic of interest to the accessibility community. A poster is a great way to test new ideas, generate interest in a research area, or describe useful or interesting work that is not substantial enough for a full paper presentation. A demonstration is a great way to communicate inventive accessible computing in action.

The submission must clearly demonstrate relevance to accessibility research. Decisions about acceptance will be based on relevance to accessibility, originality, potential significance, topicality, and clarity. A detailed list of suggested topics can be found in the Call for Papers.

Important Dates

All deadlines are 11:59 P.M. Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12:00).

  • Wednesday, July 1, 2026 – Posters & Demos Submission Deadline
  • Wednesday, August 5, 2026 – Notification of Acceptance
  • Wednesday, August 19, 2026 – Camera Ready Deadline

Submission Guidelines

ASSETS uses the ACM Publication System (TAPS) process to generate final multi-format representations of accepted papers.

The correct template for submission is the single-column Word Submission Template and the single-column LaTeX (using the “manuscript” style available in the template). You may also choose to use Overleaf.

Poster and demonstration submissions should be no longer than 5 pages (excluding references). Submissions should be in PDF format. References do not count toward page limits.

Writing Guidelines are available to help authors choose appropriate language for writing about technology and people with disabilities.

We will use a fully anonymous review process for Posters and Demos. Authors must anonymize their paper submissions and all supplemental materials. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel, in accordance with the ASSETS policy on Program Committees.

Accepted submissions will be included in the conference proceedings.

Accessible Submissions

Your PDF submission must be accessible. It may take several hours to make your PDF file accessible (adding alt tags, etc.), so be sure to leave time before the submission deadline to do so. Please refer to the instructions on creating an accessible ACM conference paper for information on how to accomplish this.

It is expected that posters and demonstrations will be made accessible both at the time of review and for the final submission. Submissions that are not accessible will be desk-rejected. If you have questions about making your poster or demonstration submission accessible, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at access-assets26@acm.org.

How to Submit

The submission deadline is July 1, 2026, 11:59 P.M. Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12:00). Please submit your posters and demonstrations via Precision Conference(PCS). Choose ASSETS under the society option, then ASSETS 2026 under conference/journal, and then the ASSETS 2026 Posters and Demos track.

Important – Author PCS Account Requirements

ACM continues to update the publication process. Currently, paper metadata will be pulled directly from your personal PCS account. This means that it is crucial for you and all of your co-authors to update the contact information so that names, affiliations, AND primary email addresses are stylized precisely in the way that you all would want to see them in the ACM digital library and on your paper. For example, if you use a personal email address (xyz123@hotmail.com) as your primary contact email in PCS then this email will appear on your paper. Please check your author information and make the necessary changes.

Authorship Guidelines

The ACM Publications Board has recently updated the ACM Authorship Policy in several ways:

  • Addressing the use of generative AI systems in the publications process
  • Clarifying criteria for authorship and the responsibilities of authors
  • Defining prohibited behavior, such as gift, ghost, or purchased authorship
  • Providing a linked FAQ explaining the rationale for the policy and providing additional details

Please read the updated policy at https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/new-acm-policy-on-authorship and ensure your submission adheres to it.

ACM Open Access Publishing

Important update on ACM's new open access publishing model for 2026 ACM Conferences:

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).

Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.

Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:

  • $250 APC for ACM/SIG members
  • $350 for non-members

This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period. This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.

Further Information

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved with ORCID from the start, and we have recently committed to collecting ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

For further information or any questions regarding the event or submissions, please contact the Posters & Demos Chairs, Abi Roper and Kyle Montague, at poster-demo-assets26@acm.org.

Examples from Previous Years

Posters

Schuenke, Ryan, Sidney R. Dickenson, and Meredith Moore. “Reading Between the Lines: Exploring Body Doubling in ADHD Using EEG.” In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, pp. 1-6. 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663547.3759743

Madan, Shalini, Sreelakshmi Surabiyil Bindu, and Venkatesh Potluri. “Accessibility Heuristics for Vibe Coding Interfaces.” In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, pp. 1-5. 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663547.3759729

Demos

Cao, Xinyun, Kexin Phyllis Ju, Chenglin Li, Venkatesh Potluri, and Dhruv Jain. “Demo of RAVEN: Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for Blind and Low-Vision People.” In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, pp. 1-5. 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663547.3759725

Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8_wlatWjw

Sedlacek, Rylan, and Prashant Chandrasekar. “BLVDIFF: Supporting BLV Developers with Differential Debugging Tools.” In Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, pp. 1-4. 2025. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3663547.3759716

Video Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4daXtGu0gLw