Welcome to A11y Lab

We always welcome students passionate about accessibility to join our team (more info) !

A11y Lab is part of the Human-Centered Design and Development (HCDD) program at College of Information Science and Technology (IST) in the Pennsylvania State University (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. 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 make non-visual interaction as efficient as visual interaction?
• How to make Assistive Technologies easy-to-learn, frictionless, and ubiquitous?
• How to build new assistive technology to augment or empower human capability?
• How to design robust, efficient, and extensible accessibility APIs in modern Operating Systems?

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