[Access Lunch] Fwd: Accessibility Lunch Seminar (starting Monday Sept 22nd!)

[Peya Mowar]

Hi everyone,
This is a reminder that Accessibility Lunch begins today at 1 PM in NSH
3001. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Thanks and regards,
Peya

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From: Jeffrey Bigham <jbigham at cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Subject: Accessibility Lunch Seminar (starting Monday Sept 22nd!)
To: Aaron Steinfeld <steinfeld at cmu.edu>, Peya Mowar <pmowar at andrew.cmu.edu>,
Patrick Carrington <pcarring at andrew.cmu.edu>, Andrew Begel <
abegel at andrew.cmu.edu>


Hi Everyone,

I'd like to invite you to our weekly Accessibility Lunch Seminar, sponsored
by Accessibility at CMU :: http://accessibility.cs.cmu.edu

We meet on Mondays, 1-2pm in Newell-Simon Hall 3001.

For our first meeting this Monday (Sept 22nd), we will do a round of
introductions and I'll do a quick overview/introduction to digital
accessibility for people with disabilities and accessibility research. Then
on September 29th, Robotics PhD student Peya Mowar will give her Masters
thesis talk titled, "Towards Automating Accessibility in Digital Authoring
Workflows." Each week we'll have another internal/external speaker in to
talk about their work.

If you would like to receive weekly reminders, along with information about
future Accessibility Lunches, sign up for our mailing list here:
https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/accessibility-lunch

Given it's at lunch time, we also serve pizza 🍕🍕

In person attendance is always preferred, but there is also a zoom:
https://cmu.zoom.us/s/99964141383

Thanks!
Jeffrey Bigham
(on behalf of Accessibility Lunch organizers Aaron Steinfeld, Patrick
Carrington, Andrew Begel, and Peya Mowar)



A bit more information about the lunch seminar --

Accessibility in computer science is generally the study of how we can make
technology usable by people with disabilities and also useful for people
with disabilities. At the Accessibility Lunch, we have internal and
external invited speakers visit us to talk about research and practice of
accessibility for people with disabilities -- we talk about studies of what
people need, technical systems developed to improve accessibility, and core
challenges in making computing systems accessible.

Here are some talks from last semester to give you an idea:
"From Agents to Optimization: User Interface Understanding and Generation"
by Jason Wu (CMU)
"Fostering More Accessible Communication through Speech Recognition and
Sign Language Interpretation" by Colin Lea (Apple)
"AI Descriptions of Visual Content Taken by Blind People" by Danna Gurari
(University of Colorado)
"Deploying Real Systems for Better ML Data" by Danielle Bragg (Microsoft
Research)
"AI for Signed Languages: Challenges and Opportunities" by Kayo Yin (UC
Berkeley)


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Associate Professor
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
jeffreybigham.com
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