Big news! I just signed a book deal with @SpringerNature for my research monograph titled "Exploring Data Visualization Accessibility." Book coming out in 2025! . Would love to hear what folks would like to see/find beneficial in this book! Feel free to DM.

Thanks for the article, @Technical_ly!.

#dataviz #Accessibility.

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Excited to share that our demo paper “Touchpad Mapper: Examining Information Consumption From 2D Digital Content Using Touchpads by Screen-Reader Users” won the Best Demo Award at #ASSETS2024! Great team work @venkypotluri Jazz Ang @wobbrockjo @jcmankoff (links in the thread)

@interactionsMag ALT: Screen capture of the printed article on I am Disabled but Not 'Impaired'. The image only contains some of the text from the article. (Odd that if you forget to add alt-text and if you don't have the paid version of X, you can't add it to an existing post?).

Thanks, @interactionsMag for publishing my article, "I am disabled but not 'impaired'." I had been thinking about this for years before finally penning it down. Hoping to raise awareness around using respectful terminologies to refer to disabled people!.

RT @Chimichurrichu: Ever wondered how screen-reader users interact with dynamic geovisualizations? 🤔.Check out our latest @ieeevis short pa….

RT @UWITNews: ⭐ Read more about the recipient and nominees’ phenomenal work here:

Thanks @seattletimes for publishing my op ed! It's something that's been on my mind for quite a bit and captures experiences of several disabled folks. The topic is nuanced and I hope that it serves its purpose to be a conversation starter! #disability.

Thanks @Golden_Key for recognizing my work to improve digital #a11y for disabled people, and awarding me the Golden Key Graduate Scholar Award!. #GKAThoughtLeader.

Usually I make these kinda posts witty, but I don't have the words so I'll just say what it is. I PASSED MY DEFENSE!!. And these amazing people helped make this a reality, which was once nothing but an ambitious dream. Thanks @wobbrockjo @reladner @jeffrey_heer & Joanne Woaik!

Super humbled to have received the 2024 UW Digital Accessibility Award (Individual category) on Global Accessibility Awareness Day. Congrats to @rockpang6 @A11yKelly @jcmankoff and co. for receiving the award in Teams category. 🎉🎉. #gaad2024 #a11y

The day President @amcauce was in a selfie with Ather 😬. Thanks @UW Foundation Board for an amazing evening. Honored to have been among the @uwcreate researchers to present my work on UnlockedMaps!. #a11y #dataviz

Thanks to the Open Scholarship Commons Fellowship by @uwlibraries, I got to present a workshop on "Making Online Data Visualizations Accessible to Screen-Reader Users." Doing #dataviz #a11y research is even more satisfying when you get to share the knowledge with others!

As part of @uwcreate's DEIA Newsletter, @A11yKelly, Lucille Njoo, and I co-wrote "Three Myths and Three Actions: “Accommodating” Disabled Students." Hoping it'd help educators make grad school more equitable for disabled students!. #Disability #a11y.

Thanks @uwcse for featuring me in the "I. Am. CSE." video series! (Check out other videos in the series at UW CSE's YouTube channel.).

RT @FrankElavsky: One of the things about chronic illness and lack of care, empathy, and respect you receive is that other folks willingly….

Been reading #chi2024 threads here and maybe it's just me but if we keep rejecting work that improves the state of the world on the basis of (pseudo-)scientific-rigor laws (without the opportunity of providing a rebuttal) then are we really advancing the field? 🤔.