8 papers
Reflections and Recommendations on AI Adoption Practice from a Mixed-Ability Research Group
Shalini Madan, Sreelakshmi Surabiyil Bindu, Veronica Pimenova +2
Generative AI tools have recently been rapidly adopted by academics in mixed-ability research teams for both personal and professional tasks. While previous work on adoption of AI-…
Bespoke Visual Assistance: What and How do Blind and Low-Vision People Create with Agentic Programming?
Ellie Seehorn, Gene S-H Kim, Aziz Zeidieh +6
AI-powered assistive technologies have long supported blind and low vision (BLV) people in everyday tasks, but they are general-purpose and often fall short of meeting complex, ind…
Three Modalities, Two Design Probes, One Prototype, and No Vision: Experience-Based Co-Design of a Multi-modal 3D Data Visualization Tool
Sanchita S. Kamath, Aziz N Zeidieh, Venkatesh Potluri +3
Three-dimensional (3D) data visualizations, such as surface plots, are vital in STEM fields from biomedical imaging to spectroscopy, yet remain largely inaccessible to blind and lo…
TouchScribe: Augmenting Non-Visual Hand-Object Interactions with Automated Live Visual Descriptions
Ruei-Che Chang, Rosiana Natalie, Wenqian Xu +4
People who are blind or have low vision regularly use their hands to interact with the physical world to gain access to objects' shape, size, weight, and texture. However, many ric…
RAVEN: Realtime Accessibility in Virtual ENvironments for Blind and Low-Vision People
Xinyun Cao, Kexin Phyllis Ju, Chenglin Li +2
As virtual 3D environments become more prevalent, equitable access is essential for blind and low-vision (BLV) users, who face challenges with spatial awareness, navigation, and in…
Nonvisual Support for Understanding and Reasoning about Data Structures
Brianna L. Wimer, Ritesh Kanchi, Kaija Frierson +5
Blind and visually impaired (BVI) computer science students face systematic barriers when learning data structures: current accessibility approaches typically translate diagrams in…