Soraia Prietch, Professor, Federal University of RondonópolisStacy Branham, Assistant Professor, University of California Irvine For the past nine months, the Adjunct Chairs for Accessibility as members of the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) have been working to identify the most pressing…
Open Call for SIGCHI Accessibility Committee
At our community’s recent Equity Talk roundtable discussion about Making SIGCHI Accessible, many community members articulated a need for people with a wide range of expertise in accessibility–especially those who have lived experience of disability–from around the globe to be…
Vision for an Accessible SIGCHI
Stacy Branham, Soraia PrietchACM SIGCHI EC Adjunct Chairs of Accessibility See our 2021 End-of-Term Update Across the globe and throughout history, people with disabilities have been excluded from and even harmed by public institutions, including the academy (e.g., ). Within ACM…