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Welcome to the Make4All Group. We create general solutions that empower people with disabilities to accomplish their goals, including programming, physical computing, sports, and more. Our group applies technologies such as 3D printing, knitting and other fabrication technologies to improving inclusion in and accessibility of our digital future.

Recent Projects

Wordcloud of alt text assigned to images in notebooks prominently featuring useless text such as "png" "image" "alt" and "Colab"

Notably Inaccessible

Model of an automatically-generated flat splint with breathing holes, and the same splint after it has been printed, heated, and shaped around a thumb

Domain Specific Metaheuristic Optimization

Example messages about COVI-19 safety including "after we meet up, can you walk me to the bus stop? I've had some bad experiences, and as an asian-american woman I don't feel safe" and "I know everyone's vaccinated, but can we still be careful? A few things I had in mind..." and "These guidelines would help me feel safe: everyone is vaccinated; no physical contact; masks on; no sharing food/drink"

COVID-19 Risk Negotation

Two AI-generated images show different interpretations of a doll-sized “crocheted lavender husky wearing ski goggles,” including one pictured outdoors and one against a wooden background.

Generative Artificial Intelligence’s Utility for Accessibility

14 drawings of participant gestures organized as 2 rows and 7 columns. The top row represents high agreement gestures, and the bottom row represents unique gestures that participants designed. The columns are functions (from left to right): move/pan, select, rotate, delete, open/close, zoom-in/-out, duplicate. For move/pan, the high agreement gesture was moving hand from left to right in mid-air and the unique gesture was flexing fingers from left to right. For select, the high agreement gesture was pointing with hand or finger, and the unique gesture was squeezing hand into fist. For rotate, the high agreement gesture was grabbing object and rotating about the person's wrist and the unique gesture was rotating shoulders. For delete, the high agreement gesture was swiping away and the unique gesture was looking down. For open/close, the high agreement gesture was swiping down, and the unique gesture was shrugging shoulders. For zoom-in/-out, the high agreement gesture was moving both hands towards and away from body, and the unique gesture was flexing shoulders in and out. For duplicate, the high agreement gesture was tapping twice in mid-air in two separate locations with the hand and the unique gesture was tapping chin twice.

How Do People with Limited Movement Personalize Upper-Body Gestures?

Artwork by Lydia X.Z. Brown,(they/them) 2020. Watercolor and ink drawing of four disabled people. The first is wearing a bipap respirator and a shirt that says disabled and proud! and has brown skin and dark brown hair in a bob. The second is wearing a green shirt that says Access is Love and has short green hair and green lips. They are in a wheelchair and have brown skin. Next is a person holding a white cain wearing a blue shirt saying "my other disability is a bad attitude" with shoulder-length brown hair and lighter skin. Finally, there is a person with dreadlocks in an orange shirt. Words like "disability" and "genius" are visible behind them. The bottom right of the image states "By Lydia X Brown, 2020. Honor crip, mad, disabled & neurodivergent wisdom & genius. Disability Justice Now! Downloaded from community.amplifier.org

Race, Disability and Accessibility Technology

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  • Four presenters sit at a table. Behind them is a sign that says amazon in Braille and finger spelling, with accessibility below that. To the right of the rightmost presenter is a screen showing captioning, and to the right of that is a projector showing a slide with the contents A11yhood.org, Jen Mankoff, CREATE and a logo showing ahood spelled with accessibility symbols
    CSUN Trip Notes
    Just got back from my second time attending CSUN. More and more it’s becoming a place I see as home. It has its foibles, but overall it’s a place where I am able to connect with the larger disability community, see great presentations, find other likeminded accessibility researchers, view up and coming technology, and learn … Continue reading CSUN Trip Notes →
  • This is collage from the UW Daily from the 1970s-a students with disabilities and in wheelchairs advocating to ramp the curves–a now ubiquitous example of universal design in action.
    What is the future of accessibility?
    I have been asked to present a talk about the future of accessibility. But I feel obliged to talk about the future we face if this dismantling of our rights succeeds. Because we know what that world will look like — we have only to look to the past.
  • Three masked disabled people of color chat while strolling through an outdoor courtyard. On the left, an Indigenous woman wears glasses, wrist support braces, and waist trainers paired with a off-shoulder top and wide leg pants. In the middle, a Black non-binary woman walks with a rollator and wears waist trainers with ice pack inserts over their rainbow striped dress. On the right, a Latinx non-binary person walks while using a teal functional grip cane.
    Accessibility has always needed to be part of DEIA, and we shouldn’t change that now
    Disability and other identities are intrinsically linked together…. It is critical to recognize that, in the words of Audrey Lorde, “We do not live single issue lives” and commit to cross-disability and cross-movement solidarity.
  • Devva Kasnitz 1950-2025
    This post is to share that Devva Kasntiz passed on Jan 26 2025 with the accessibility community. There is further information about her passing and impact written by her close friend and collaborator Susan Fitzmaurice with many thoughtful responses from the larger disability community. She was a transformative figure in disability studies and accessible technologies, … Continue reading Devva Kasnitz 1950-2025 →