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A flyer for the "State of the Science Conference" on Deaf and Hard of Hearing Accessible Technology, hosted by Gallaudet University. The event will take place September 16–17, 2025, from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST. Attendees can join in person at the Multipurpose Resource Room or online via Zoom. The registration deadline for both options is September 5, 2025, and accommodation requests for in-person attendance are due by September 1, 2025. ASL interpreters and real-time captioning (CART) will be available for all sessions. Contact email: dhh.rerc@gallaudet.edu. More information and registration at https://gu.live/a11yconf.

Save the Date! The Deaf & Hard of Hearing Accessible Technology Conference
When & Time: Sept 16–17, 2025 | 9 AM–4 PM EST
Where: In person at Gallaudet or online via Zoom
Register by Sept 5. ASL & CART provided for all sessions.
Details: gu.live/a11yconf

Ha. But I’ve seen this on United airplanes, as well. Depends on the age of the plane and most recent overhaul of the IFE.

A flyer titled “State of the Science Conference – Call for Student Submissions,” hosted by Gallaudet University and available in person or via Zoom on September 16–17, 2025. It invites student researchers working on Deaf or Hard of Hearing accessibility to submit proposals. Topics include captioning technology, usability of hearing aids or mobile apps, sign language tools, accessibility in public spaces, and disability policy. The top-ranked submissions will win a prize. Submission deadline is July 23, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth), with notifications sent by August 22, 2025. Links and contact info are provided: https://gu.live/a11y-submissions, https://gu.live/a11yconf, and dhh.rerc@gallaudet.edu.

Student Call for Proposals! Present your DHH-accessibility research at the 2025 Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) Accessible Technology: State of Science Conference! Win prizes + recognition! Deadline: July 23. Details + submit: gu.live/a11y-submiss...

A flyer titled “State of the Science Conference – Call for Student Submissions,” hosted by Gallaudet University and available in person or via Zoom on September 16–17, 2025. It invites student researchers working on Deaf or Hard of Hearing accessibility to submit proposals. Topics include captioning technology, usability of hearing aids or mobile apps, sign language tools, accessibility in public spaces, and disability policy. The top-ranked submissions will win a prize. Submission deadline is July 23, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth), with notifications sent by August 22, 2025. Links and contact info are provided: https://gu.live/a11y-submissions, https://gu.live/a11yconf, and dhh.rerc@gallaudet.edu.

Student Call for Proposals! Present your DHH-accessibility research at the 2025 Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) Accessible Technology: State of Science Conference! Win prizes + recognition! Deadline: July 23. Details + submit: gu.live/a11y-submiss...

Deaf scientists hit by drastic NIH cuts — the research community must support them Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students.

Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students, says Wyatte C. Hall

https://go.nature.com/4eDVjqp

Participants will receive $85 in compensation. It will last for 2.5 hours on June 17 from 6:30 pm-9 pm. Interpreter and CART will be provided. Please see the attached flyer, or get in touch through this form: gu.live/tts
This study has been approved by the Gallaudet University IRB #IRB-FY25-29.

A flyer for a Text-to-Speech study at Gallaudet University with a white background and texts in orange,blue, and black color. At the top, it states the research is IRB-approved (FY25-29), alongside the Gallaudet University logo on the top right. The title reads "text-to-speech study", followed by a sentence "looking for participants" A heading lists eligibility criteria: 18+ years old, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, or have hearing loss, able to communicate well in ASL and/or English (interpreter and CART will be provided as needed), be aware of text-to-speech technology, able to participate in-person at Gallaudet University. On the center right, a sentence states: "We want to know what you think!" followed by a brief explanation that the co-design session will involve sharing ideas for adjusting and evaluating voice settings in TTS, like tone and pitch. It also defines TTS as a technology that allows you to convert text to speech automatically. On the bottom left, it says, "This involves a one-time in-person session in ASL and English, on Tuesday June 17 (6:30pm–9:00 PM), 2.5-hour duration, $85 compensation. The bottom right has a heading that says, "Interested?", inviting participants to scan a QR code, visit https://gu.live/tts, or email tap.sg@gallaudet.edu. The QR code is on the bottom right side of the flyer.

The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is conducting an in-person deaf-friendly study on text-to-speech technologies at Gallaudet University. Looking for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing loss to join our co-design session

The upshot is: any requirements on producing accessible videos create significant inequities for deaf and hard of hearing authors. This goes doubly so if the videos themselves have to be fully accessible and meet WCAG/Section 508 requirements. This paper, recently accepted at W4A, explores why. 2/2

Barriers to Employment: The Deaf Multimedia Authoring Tax This paper describes the challenges that deaf and hard of hearing people face with creating accessible multimedia content, such as portfolios, instructional videos and video presentations. Unlike cont...

Deaf and hard of hearing authors have to expend considerable extra time and resources to create multimedia content, compared to their hearing peers. Much of people's attention has focused on consuming accessible content, but not on ensuring that the content creation process is accessible. 1/2

And yes, that’s a subskeet of sorts. If you are a hearing professor working with a signing deaf student, and haven’t learned to sign, please assess honestly why not.

Two people presenting on opposite ends of a podium. On the left, the deaf presenter (Oliver) looks on while their hearing collaborator (Katta) is signing on the right.

Oliver Suchanek and @katta.bsky.social at #CHI2025. Refreshing to see a good deaf-hearing collaborator dynamic: both presenters signed, and interpreters did the voicing. So much more respectful than the typical scenario of the deaf presenter signing and the hearing presenter talking up a storm.

CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.

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

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Unless we were in the same sessions, make that four, two on the same person in rapid succession, even after receiving a correction.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

Oh yes they did

I did search here scholar.google.de/schhp?hl=de forcing articles to be in German and got 2,890 German language hits on "Barrierefreiheit Marburg" Apologies if you've already tried that, just want to make sure we're not missing anything.

Showing the accessibility settings for alt text in bluesky with two options: Require alt text before posting Display larger alt text badges Both are checked

As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.

"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime."

"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."

Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4

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I would buy a poster print of that. Is that something you might consider?

Amidst a lot of uncertainty these days, @shaunkane.bsky.social and I re-affirm our commitment to diversity and community for ASSETS 2025. With that in mind, accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, regardless of presentation/attendance modality. Please see our blog post for more.

Government-sanctioned discrimination coming?

For full alt text, follow pastebin link in next post. Partial text: Amy E. Greer, attorney for Mahmoud Khalil provided the following update this evening: First, importantly, today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament. He also greatly appreciates, and, typically for him, is moved by the extraordinarily broad and steadfast support he has received from a variety of communities that understand what is at stake. He is in ICE custody in Louisiana, and arrangements have been made for local attorneys to visit him today and tomorrow. The remarks by government officials, including the President, on social media only confirm the purpose – and illegality – of Mahmoud's detention. He was chosen as an example to stifle entirely lawful dissent in violation of the First Amendment. While tomorrow or thereafter the government may cite the law or process, that toothpaste is out of the tube and irreversibly so. The government’s objective is as transparent as it is unlawful, and our role as Mahmoud’s lawyers is to ensure it does not prevail. Today Mahmoud's legal team, which includes Kyle Barron, CLEAR, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Amy Greer filed a motion to compel in federal court in the Southern District of New York, as part of the habeas corpus petition filed on his behalf over the weekend, seeking an order requiring the government to return to New York for any immigration proceedings.

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

NSF downsizes summer research program for undergraduates Many participants are from groups underrepresented in science

Yep. This article essentially confirms that renewals are getting hit hard.

If I, as a disabled person, post something referring to “disabled people,” don’t correct me by arguing that I should say “people with disabilities.”

My identity is my choice.

Worried about what the Trump/Musk cuts mean for the future of American higher education? This one pot Nom Banh Chok will make you feel you're in Pol Pot's Cambodia.

REU site host here - this is most likely about the uncertainty of having funds, rather than cancellations originating from the NSF. We're stuck in a renewal application cycle, and haven't even been able to advertise yet as a result.

🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.

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They canceled it as per www.instagram.com/share/BAF8Zw...