Hilarie Sit Recently Accepted to 2025 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Polymath data scientist Hilarie Sit, Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow, just got an acceptance to CHI 2025 to present a paper entitled “Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods.”

And here are the reviews!

R1: I recommend accept. This paper discusses current accessibility issues with Three.js due to HTML5 canvas elements not being accessible to screen readers. The paper present a3, a solution in the form of a JS package to support adding keyboard navigation for hover and click events. I liked the goals of this research and the code is currently open source, which is nice. I look forward to seeing how this work evolves in the future.

R2: The paper “Accessibility of interactive 3D Graphics on the Web” provides an overview of the challenges faced when attempting to place 3D graphics inside a HTML canvas element. I recommend accept as this paper will provide excellent topics of discussion for the workshop around how the development of mainstream tools are often inaccessible and how the accessibility of the tools we use shape a more accessible Web for everyone. I like that an accessibility problem is clearly identified and this is related back to WCAG compliance. Also, evidence of the solution resolving accessibility challenges is pleasing. It would be good to see more examples of how this problem is/could be effecting visually impaired web users today i.e. which tools and sites today currently use 3D graphics inside canvas elements that are posing accessibility barriers.

Many congratulations, Hilarie!