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Welcome to the January 2022 issue of the ACM SIGACCESS newsletter. This issue highlights the ACM ASSETS 2021 Virtual Conference and celebrates SIGACCESS 50 Year anniversary with an article about the SIG history.
The first article, written by Jinjuan Heidi Feng (Program Chair), Faustina Hwang (Program Chair) and Jonathan Lazar (General Chair) provides an overview of ASSETS’21.
ASSETS 2021 DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
The following five articles describe the research work of the students who attended the ASSETS 2021 Doctoral Consortium:
- HELPING STUDENTS WITH CEREBRAL PALSY PROGRAM VIA VOICE-ENABLED BLOCK-BASED PROGRAMMING by Obianuju Okafor
- THE USE OF AUTOMATIC TEXT SIMPLIFICATION TO PROVIDE READING ASSISTANCE TO DEAF AND HARD-OF-HEARING INDIVIDUALS IN COMPUTING FIELDS by Oliver Alonzo
- FACILITATING SHARING AND RE-USE OF ACCESSIBILITY DATASETS: BENEFITS AND RISKS by Rie Kamikubo
- PROGRAMMING BY VOICE by Sadia Nowrin
- MOBILE AUGMENTED REALITY USING DEEP LEARNING FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE by Tianshi Xie and Cheryl D. Seals
SIGACCESS: 50 YEARS OF SUPPORT RESEARCH ON ACCESSIBILITY IN COMPUTING
In this article, Jason Freeman provides an overview of four major eras of SIGACCESS’s history, including its founding, a “precarious” era in which the SIG’s fate was uncertain, a period of revitalization, and a modern era focused on inclusion.
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