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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

A table with an assortment of cane tips, cane handles and feet in various shapes.

“A Tool for Freedom”

Stylized illustration of a person with robotic features sitting at a café table, looking at a phone, with a glowing light around them. Four human figures sit at surrounding tables, engaged in conversation. The central figure has a robot icon on their chest and a speech bubble with the same icon, symbolizing artificial intelligence or feeling like a robot in a social setting.

Autoethnographic Insights from Neurodivergent GAI “Power Users”

Figure 1: The flowchart offers a map through the results. At the top we have communication access, which branches into two directions: 1) access needs (e.g., caption use, speechreading) and 2) language landscape (e.g., frequency, context, comfort, overall repertoire). There are two way arrows between these two, representing the question 'How do these interact/inform/shape each other?'. Below the question, as answer we have two groups: first, factors for a particular langauge (fluency, linguistic affordances, cultural perceptions) and second, practices across languages (translation, transliteration, translanguaging).

Toward Language Justice

A purple freestanding lace piece on top of a jar lid, adding a rigid, grippable base.

Shaping Lace

An AI generated decorative image of a person standing alone outside of a corporate boardroom, excluded.

Identifying and improving disability bias in GPT-based resume screening

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

Notably Inaccessible

Latest News

  • 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 →