Christian Vogler
@krischi.bsky.social
Technology Access Program at Gallaudet. Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Tech for Deaf/HH. Next-gen accessibility. Perpetually vacillating between “this tech is a game changer for access” and “this tech will exacerbate unequal access.”
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Christian Vogler
@krischi.bsky.social
· Nov 14
To the influx of new followers, welcome. I do mainly accessibility research through a deaf and hard of hearing lens. Because our research frequently influences immediate practical matters of accessibility, I also take a strong interest in policy and disability law.
Save the Date! The Deaf & Hard of Hearing Accessible Technology Conference
When & Time: Sept 16–17, 2025 | 9 AM–4 PM EST
Where: In person at Gallaudet or online via Zoom
Register by Sept 5. ASL & CART provided for all sessions.
Details: gu.live/a11yconf
When & Time: Sept 16–17, 2025 | 9 AM–4 PM EST
Where: In person at Gallaudet or online via Zoom
Register by Sept 5. ASL & CART provided for all sessions.
Details: gu.live/a11yconf
July 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Save the Date! The Deaf & Hard of Hearing Accessible Technology Conference
When & Time: Sept 16–17, 2025 | 9 AM–4 PM EST
Where: In person at Gallaudet or online via Zoom
Register by Sept 5. ASL & CART provided for all sessions.
Details: gu.live/a11yconf
When & Time: Sept 16–17, 2025 | 9 AM–4 PM EST
Where: In person at Gallaudet or online via Zoom
Register by Sept 5. ASL & CART provided for all sessions.
Details: gu.live/a11yconf
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Student Call for Proposals! Present your DHH-accessibility research at the 2025 Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) Accessible Technology: State of Science Conference! Win prizes + recognition! Deadline: July 23. Details + submit: gu.live/a11y-submiss...
July 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Student Call for Proposals! Present your DHH-accessibility research at the 2025 Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) Accessible Technology: State of Science Conference! Win prizes + recognition! Deadline: July 23. Details + submit: gu.live/a11y-submiss...
Student Call for Proposals! Present your DHH-accessibility research at the 2025 Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) Accessible Technology: State of Science Conference! Win prizes + recognition! Deadline: July 23. Details + submit: gu.live/a11y-submiss...
July 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Student Call for Proposals! Present your DHH-accessibility research at the 2025 Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) Accessible Technology: State of Science Conference! Win prizes + recognition! Deadline: July 23. Details + submit: gu.live/a11y-submiss...
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Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students, says Wyatte C. Hall
https://go.nature.com/4eDVjqp
https://go.nature.com/4eDVjqp
Deaf scientists hit by drastic NIH cuts — the research community must support them
Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students.
go.nature.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Severe blows to the ‘deaf-scientist pipeline’ must not mean abandoning its best practices. Here is how to support current and future students, says Wyatte C. Hall
https://go.nature.com/4eDVjqp
https://go.nature.com/4eDVjqp
The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is conducting an in-person deaf-friendly study on text-to-speech technologies at Gallaudet University. Looking for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing loss to join our co-design session
June 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Technology for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing is conducting an in-person deaf-friendly study on text-to-speech technologies at Gallaudet University. Looking for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have hearing loss to join our co-design session
Deaf and hard of hearing authors have to expend considerable extra time and resources to create multimedia content, compared to their hearing peers. Much of people's attention has focused on consuming accessible content, but not on ensuring that the content creation process is accessible. 1/2
Barriers to Employment: The Deaf Multimedia Authoring Tax
This paper describes the challenges that deaf and hard of hearing people face with creating accessible multimedia content, such as portfolios, instructional videos and video presentations. Unlike cont...
arxiv.org
May 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Deaf and hard of hearing authors have to expend considerable extra time and resources to create multimedia content, compared to their hearing peers. Much of people's attention has focused on consuming accessible content, but not on ensuring that the content creation process is accessible. 1/2
Oliver Suchanek and @katta.bsky.social at #CHI2025. Refreshing to see a good deaf-hearing collaborator dynamic: both presenters signed, and interpreters did the voicing. So much more respectful than the typical scenario of the deaf presenter signing and the hearing presenter talking up a storm.
May 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Oliver Suchanek and @katta.bsky.social at #CHI2025. Refreshing to see a good deaf-hearing collaborator dynamic: both presenters signed, and interpreters did the voicing. So much more respectful than the typical scenario of the deaf presenter signing and the hearing presenter talking up a storm.
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code generation presents a new opportunity to make UI code accessible, but @peyajm29.bsky.social's work shows current codex models mostly fail on #a11y;
her system CodeA11y improves accessibility of UI code w/ three strategies other tools could adopt
4:20pm in AnnexF206
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
her system CodeA11y improves accessibility of UI code w/ three strategies other tools could adopt
4:20pm in AnnexF206
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.
dl.acm.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
code generation presents a new opportunity to make UI code accessible, but @peyajm29.bsky.social's work shows current codex models mostly fail on #a11y;
her system CodeA11y improves accessibility of UI code w/ three strategies other tools could adopt
4:20pm in AnnexF206
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
her system CodeA11y improves accessibility of UI code w/ three strategies other tools could adopt
4:20pm in AnnexF206
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
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As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.
March 30, 2025 at 12:16 AM
As Bluesky has grown, I've seen a lot of backsliding on alt text. Please try to be considerate to others and include alt text with all of your images. It helps everyone. Indeed, in the "accessibility" setting in Bluesky you can set it to make sure you add alt text, which is a useful thing to do.
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"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime."
"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."
Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4
www.chronicle.com/ar...
"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."
Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4
www.chronicle.com/ar...
March 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"The question the embattled university president asked [me], in effect, was how a university fights an authoritarian regime."
"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."
Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4
www.chronicle.com/ar...
"I told him to frame his fight to gain as many allies as he can."
Note FIGHT. Universities must act. Keeping their heads down won't work. 1/4
www.chronicle.com/ar...
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Amidst a lot of uncertainty these days, @shaunkane.bsky.social and I re-affirm our commitment to diversity and community for ASSETS 2025. With that in mind, accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, regardless of presentation/attendance modality. Please see our blog post for more.
The ASSETS 2025 General Chairs, @kristenshino.bsky.social and @shaunkane.bsky.social, have an update on conference planning, maintaining community values, and transparency into how ASSETS functions. You can read more on the website at assets25.sigaccess.org/updates.html
Updates / ASSETS 2025
The 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
assets25.sigaccess.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Amidst a lot of uncertainty these days, @shaunkane.bsky.social and I re-affirm our commitment to diversity and community for ASSETS 2025. With that in mind, accepted papers will appear in the proceedings, regardless of presentation/attendance modality. Please see our blog post for more.
Government-sanctioned discrimination coming?
Scientists that partner with the US Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute received new instructions that eliminate mention of “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” in the skills it expects of members @willknight.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
www.wired.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Government-sanctioned discrimination coming?
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UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
March 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)
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If I, as a disabled person, post something referring to “disabled people,” don’t correct me by arguing that I should say “people with disabilities.”
My identity is my choice.
My identity is my choice.
February 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If I, as a disabled person, post something referring to “disabled people,” don’t correct me by arguing that I should say “people with disabilities.”
My identity is my choice.
My identity is my choice.
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Worried about what the Trump/Musk cuts mean for the future of American higher education? This one pot Nom Banh Chok will make you feel you're in Pol Pot's Cambodia.
February 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Worried about what the Trump/Musk cuts mean for the future of American higher education? This one pot Nom Banh Chok will make you feel you're in Pol Pot's Cambodia.
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🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
Cancellation megathread
www.reddit.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🚨 Many NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) are being cancelled for Summer 2025.
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
www.reddit.com/r/REU/commen...
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There’s much talk about how early career researchers are getting shafted. Researchers with disabilities and those who are working hard to maintain mentoring pipelines: hold my beer.
Accessibility Is Taking a Hit Across the Sciences (Gift Article)
Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
There’s much talk about how early career researchers are getting shafted. Researchers with disabilities and those who are working hard to maintain mentoring pipelines: hold my beer.
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I hate to keep reminding people that we are all one car accident or chronic illness away from becoming disabled. We need to use all of our people to make this country work.
February 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I hate to keep reminding people that we are all one car accident or chronic illness away from becoming disabled. We need to use all of our people to make this country work.
There’s much talk about how early career researchers are getting shafted. Researchers with disabilities and those who are working hard to maintain mentoring pipelines: hold my beer.
Accessibility Is Taking a Hit Across the Sciences (Gift Article)
Confusion has ensued about the future of programs and research supporting people with disabilities as a result of President Trump’s executive order.
www.nytimes.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
There’s much talk about how early career researchers are getting shafted. Researchers with disabilities and those who are working hard to maintain mentoring pipelines: hold my beer.
Reposted by Christian Vogler
Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities
The president’s disdain for disabled people—and obsession with genetic superiority—harks back to a grim past.
www.thenation.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open!
Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm...
• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025
#aphasia
Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm...
• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025
#aphasia
Submit an Abstract | British Aphasiology Society International Conference 2025
blogs.city.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The #BASConf25 abstract submission portal is open!
Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm...
• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025
#aphasia
Submit your abstracts for presentations, panels, lightning talks, or posters here:
blogs.city.ac.uk/bas2025/subm...
• Submission Deadline: 17 Mar 2025, 9AM UK
• Notification of Acceptance: 2 May 2025
• Conference: 18-20 August 2025
#aphasia