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Welcome to the June 2020 issue of the ACM SIGACCESS newsletter. In this issue first article, SIGACCESS calls upon its research community for proposals to combat racism and ableism within computer science. The second article highlights the largest ASSETS yet, marking the 25th anniversary since the first conference in 1994, the 2019 edition in Pittsburgh. The third article provides an overview of the discussions that took place at the 2019 CSCW workshop on Addressing the Accessibility of Social Media. The last article by Rhonda et al. discusses how Computational Ethnography could enhance AI Fairness, the work was presented in the 2019 ASSETS workshop on AI Fairness.
Black Lives Matter. The SIGACCESS Executive Committee stands in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement and rejects racism, both personal and institutional, while acknowledging that we have much to learn and unlearn. In this article SIGACCESS calls on the community for proposals how to best tackle racism and ableism in accessibility research. What do you think are the priority actions that will broaden participation in SIGACCESS and create a supportive, welcoming, safe and inclusive community? What initiatives could you contribute to?
The first article, written by Jeffrey P. Bigham (General Chair), Shiri Azenkot (Program Chair) and Shaun Kane (Program Chair) provides an overview of the ASSETS’19 conference.
ADDRESSING THE ACCESSIBILITY OF SOCIAL MEDIA – WORKSHOP AT CSCW 2019
The article written by the workshop organizers, highlights the outcomes of the workshop in four future research directions for accessible social media.
In this article, Rhonda J. Moore et al. discusses the broad trends in AI that are trying to predict risk for pain and highlight how it can have unintended consequences for people living with chronic pain and invisible disability. The article explores how computational ethnography can be used to potentially expand the boundaries of AI fairness.
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