Peya Mowar
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Peya Mowar
@peyajm29.bsky.social
grad @scsatcmu.bsky.social | prev @msftresearch.bsky.social | #ai, #hci, #a11y
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I'll be attending #ASSETS2025 next week to present a poster on a novel way to automatically tag PDFs with high accuracy! Catch me in Poster Session B on Tuesday.

Read the paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I'm also exploring internship opportunities for summer 2026 and would love to chat!
We Write Our Research Papers in WYSIWYM. Why Do We Tag Our PDFs in WYSIWYG? | Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
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October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I'll be attending #ASSETS2025 next week to present a poster on a novel way to automatically tag PDFs with high accuracy! Catch me in Poster Session B on Tuesday.

Read the paper here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

I'm also exploring internship opportunities for summer 2026 and would love to chat!
We Write Our Research Papers in WYSIWYM. Why Do We Tag Our PDFs in WYSIWYG? | Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
dl.acm.org
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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come present your accessibility research in our Accessibility seminar at CMU!
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Do you conduct accessibility research? We want to hear about your work! Sign up here to be a guest speaker at CMU's Accessibility Lunch Seminar in Fall 2025: forms.gle/KvVRvsLRdgyc...
CMU Accessibility Lunch Seminar
Do you conduct accessibility research? We want to hear about your work! We are now accepting responses for guest speakers for the CMU Accessibility Lunch Seminar Series for Fall 2025. If you are inter...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Do you conduct accessibility research? We want to hear about your work! Sign up here to be a guest speaker at CMU's Accessibility Lunch Seminar in Fall 2025: forms.gle/KvVRvsLRdgyc...
CMU Accessibility Lunch Seminar
Do you conduct accessibility research? We want to hear about your work! We are now accepting responses for guest speakers for the CMU Accessibility Lunch Seminar Series for Fall 2025. If you are inter...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Happy Monday! Check out this new @acm-sigchi.bsky.social paper from @peyajm29.bsky.social and colleagues on making web code more accessible using AI
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
May 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Had a wonderful post-CHI visit to the Miraikan Museum, where Chieko Asakawa is the Director. She has brought a bunch of cool accessibility exhibits.

I gave a talk revisiting a few of the grand challenges in accessibility, reflecting on what has changed and the new problems that have emerged
May 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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I find studies like this so interesting -- even basic functional "performance" assessment can be so unique depending on who is doing the evaluation and what their needs & priorities are.
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/...
CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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April 30, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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April 30, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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the tool does three main things --
1) accessible by default code suggestions
2) built-in accessibility error detection, and
3) reminders to complete template code
April 30, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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using CodeA11y, people created more accessible code --
April 30, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Reposted by Peya Mowar
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/...
CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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April 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I can't stop smiling today as I've accepted an offer to start my PhD and continue working with my wonderful advisors, @jeffreybigham.com and Aaron Steinfeld, at @cmurobotics.bsky.social!
March 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Excited to share our #CHI2025 preprint:
CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development
arxiv.org/abs/2502.10884
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February 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Thrilled to share that our work on making AI Coding Assistants (e.g, Github Copilot) better at helping developers produce accessible UI code has been accepted to #chi2025 🎉🌸
January 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM