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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.

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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? Considerations for the Design of Personalized and Accessible Gesture Interfaces

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

A picture of part of a dashboard visualization showing sales by state, using a US map, bar charts, a pie chart, and total sales. To the side, part of a textual dashboard description is visible summarizing the same information visible in the charts. Above, a filter menu is visible where the user can select which region to show sales for.

Azimuth: Designing Accessible Dashboards for Screen Reader Users

GLOBEM logo, blue text with a world for the O.

Cross-Dataset Generalization for Human Behavior Modeling

Optimized tactile map

Maptimizer

A barplot showing intervention acceptance for typout (57.2%) and typing only (48.8%) among 54 users over 10 weeks.

TypeOut: Just-in-Time Self-Affirmation for Reducing Phone Use

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