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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 21d

come present your accessibility research in our Accessibility seminar at CMU!

Peya Mowar @peyajm29.bsky.social · 22d

Do you conduct accessibility research? We want to hear about your work! Sign up here to be a guest speaker at CMU's Accessibility Lunch Seminar in Fall 2025: forms.gle/KvVRvsLRdgyc...

CMU Accessibility Lunch Seminar

Do you conduct accessibility research? We want to hear about your work! We are now accepting responses for guest speakers for the CMU Accessibility Lunch Seminar Series for Fall 2025. If you are inter...

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Peya Mowar @peyajm29.bsky.social · 22d

Do you conduct accessibility research? We want to hear about your work! Sign up here to be a guest speaker at CMU's Accessibility Lunch Seminar in Fall 2025: forms.gle/KvVRvsLRdgyc...

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Peya Mowar @peyajm29.bsky.social · 22d

Do you conduct accessibility research? We want to hear about your work! Sign up here to be a guest speaker at CMU's Accessibility Lunch Seminar in Fall 2025: forms.gle/KvVRvsLRdgyc...

CMU Accessibility Lunch Seminar

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Disabled In Computing @disabledincs.bsky.social · May 5

Happy Monday! Check out this new @acm-sigchi.bsky.social paper from @peyajm29.bsky.social and colleagues on making web code more accessible using AI
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

An image of a data visualization for assessing the quality of output for accessible web code generation from GitHub Copilot and CodeA11y. These are ranked on a scale of 0-2 where 0 is unacceptable, 1 is average, 2 is good.

Color Contrast: copilot 0.75, codea11y 0.88
Form labeling: copilot 0.88, codea11y 1.5
Link labeling: copilot 1.75, codea11y 2
Adding alt-text: copilot 0.25, code11y 0.7

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · May 2

Had a wonderful post-CHI visit to the Miraikan Museum, where Chieko Asakawa is the Director. She has brought a bunch of cool accessibility exhibits.

I gave a talk revisiting a few of the grand challenges in accessibility, reflecting on what has changed and the new problems that have emerged

jeff in front of a slide with two turtles on it -- it says, "we've done pretty good at the first turtle", but there is another turtle", grand challenges in accessibility have depth

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · Apr 30

I find studies like this so interesting -- even basic functional "performance" assessment can be so unique depending on who is doing the evaluation and what their needs & priorities are.

Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · Apr 30

code generation presents a new opportunity to make UI code accessible, but @peyajm29.bsky.social's work shows current codex models mostly fail on #a11y;

her system CodeA11y improves accessibility of UI code w/ three strategies other tools could adopt

4:20pm in AnnexF206

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · Apr 30

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · Apr 30

the tool does three main things --
1) accessible by default code suggestions
2) built-in accessibility error detection, and
3) reminders to complete template code

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · Apr 30

using CodeA11y, people created more accessible code --

doubled accessibilitiy evaluation on color contrast and form labeling, slight improvement on link labeling, and tripled on adding alt text

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · Apr 30

code generation presents a new opportunity to make UI code accessible, but @peyajm29.bsky.social's work shows current codex models mostly fail on #a11y;

her system CodeA11y improves accessibility of UI code w/ three strategies other tools could adopt

4:20pm in AnnexF206

dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Peya Mowar @peyajm29.bsky.social · Mar 26

Thanks Mina!! :)

Peya Mowar @peyajm29.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thank you! :)

Peya Mowar @peyajm29.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thanks Frank! :)

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Peya Mowar @peyajm29.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thank you so much :)

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Peya Mowar @peyajm29.bsky.social · Mar 24

I can't stop smiling today as I've accepted an offer to start my PhD and continue working with my wonderful advisors, @jeffreybigham.com and Aaron Steinfeld, at @cmurobotics.bsky.social!

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