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

[Peya Mowar]

Hi everyone,
Remember to fill out this form to sign up as a speaker
<https://forms.gle/KvVRvsLRdgycbSCz6> for the CMU Accessibility Lunch in
Fall 2025. Sharing your work is a great way to get feedback, practice for
conference talks, or simply get others excited about your research!
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me. If you
would like to hear from someone whose work interests you, you can either
share the form link with them directly or email me to nominate speakers. As
responses come in, I will put together the schedule for the semester
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1k1Pmh9jo-N7S73Fi10y-5tEynvhw3xLbPf-NMAjTSxU/edit?usp=sharing>
.
Thanks and regards,
Peya Mowar
cs.cmu.edu/~peyajm29


On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM Peya Mowar <pmowar at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> 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)
>
>
> --
> ==
> Associate Professor
> Human-Computer Interaction Institute
> Language Technologies Institute
> Carnegie Mellon University
> jeffreybigham.com
>
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