SIGACCESS is ACM

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

's Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing.

Mission

SIGACCESS promotes the professional interests of computing personnel with disabilities and the application of computing and information technology in solving relevant disability problems. The SIG also strives to educate the public to support careers for people with disabilities.

Description

The SIG membership (from both academia and industry) focuses on the application of technologies to serve the needs of persons with vision, motor, hearing, and speech impairments; cognitive limitations, including learning disabilities; and issues of aging.

Topics on advanced technologies, assistive technologies, and design form the core of the research topics.

Annual Conferences/Workshops

ASSETS: International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.