Welcome to A11y Lab

We are currently looking for PhD and Master’s students to join the team (more info) !

A11y Lab is affiliated with the Human-Centered Design and Development (HCDD) program at the College of Information Science and Technology in Penn State.

A11y stands for Accessibility – there are 11 letters between the “A” and the “y”. We believe accessibility is a human right; we also believe making things accessible for people with disabilities is a hard problem. Very often this problem is layered, multi-dimensinoal, and difficult to describe and theorize.

At A11y Lab, we aim to address the following challenges:

• How to bridge the gap between non-visual and visual interaction?
• How to make Assistive Technologies easy-to-learn, frictionless, and ubiquitous?
• How to integrate accessibility as a first-class citizen in modern Operating Systems?
• How to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to recover/substitute human sensory losses?
• How to build new assistive technology to augment/empower human capability?

Please feel free to contact me if you are also working on these challenges and interested in collaborating with us.