Peya Mowar
LightNews LightNews
banner
peyajm29.bsky.social
Peya Mowar
@peyajm29.bsky.social
940 followers 150 following 16 posts
grad @scsatcmu.bsky.social | prev @msftresearch.bsky.social | #ai, #hci, #a11y
cs.cmu.edu/~peyajm29
Posts Replies Media Videos
peyajm29.bsky.social
A technical evaluation of CodeA11y with 20 developers demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in producing accessible UI code without compromising their satisfaction and ease of use.
(5/n)
A bar graph with mean scores for web accessibility tasks, comparing outcomes with GitHub Copilot and CodeA11y AI assistants. CodeA11y shows a statistically significant improvement over Copilot in maintaining appropriate colour contrast, form labelling and adding alt texts.
February 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
peyajm29.bsky.social
We built CodeA11y, a GitHub Copilot Extension that addresses the observed gaps by consistently reinforcing accessible development practices throughout the conversational interaction.
(4/n)
Comparison between user interactions with a baseline AI assistant (GitHub Copilot) and CodeA11y. CodeA11y reinforces accessibility practices in the text response, generates a reminder to check for button contrast and adds appropriate colours in both default and hover states. Copilot gives code for a button with the same colours in the default state, but significantly poorer color contrast in the hover state.
February 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
peyajm29.bsky.social
Excited to share our #CHI2025 preprint:
CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development
arxiv.org/abs/2502.10884
🧵(1/n)
The interface of the CodeA11y extension is displayed along with its features: (1) Accessibility-by-default Code Suggestions, (2) Relevant Error Identification and (3) Code Completion Reminders.
February 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM