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- We hope to see and connect with you at the CHI conference in Honolulu next week! We will be present two papers, “Finding My Voice over Zoom: An Autoethnography of Videoconferencing Experience for a Person Who Stutters” at the “Supporting Communication Needs B” session on Tuesday May 14th 2:15-2:35 PM and “Towards Fair and Inclusive Speech Recognition for Stuttering: Community-led Chinese Stuttered Speech Dataset Creation and Benchmarking” at the “Late-Breaking Work” session on Wednesday May 15th 10:20AM-11:00AM and 3:20PM-4:00PM. If you attending CHI or in the area, come say hi! You can also preview our talks on YouTube: [Finding My Voice over Zoom] [Towards Fair and Inclusive Speech Recognition for Stuttering].
- Our Zoom companion app for people who stutter is ready for beta testing! Sign up here to be invited to our beta program, and read more about how we co-designed the app with the stuttering community in our blogpost or the full paper(preprint version) (accepted by DIS 2024).
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Follow Marie, a passionate and tech-savvy individual who happens to be visually impaired, as she uses innovative tech to navigate her day independently, photography to video editing to cooking. Full Video: >> Technology & Me | Exploring Hobbies | Marie’s Story
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InnoCaption, funded by the FCC, privides a free real-time mobile call captioning service to the deaf and hard-of-hearing community. Full Info >>
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“Imagine if 90% of the websites or mobile apps you use today locked you out. Everyone else continues to experience the convenience of mobile banking, the connectedness of social media and the freedom of online shopping… but, for you, they’re inaccessible.” Full Video >> What is Digital Accessibility?
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Date: 2024-05-13
John Slatin AccessU is a three-day digital accessibility training conference. The goal is not just to talk about accessibility but to teach coding, usability, and inclusive design skills in an interactive and communal environment. Full Info >> John Slatin AccessU
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