- SIGCHI Committee - Inclusion Team
Members:
Siddharth Mehrotra, RWTH Aachen University
Maria Zafar, University (Academia)
Kevin Storer, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington
Anja Thieme, Microsoft Research
Siddharth Mehrotra, RWTH Aachen University
Maria Zafar, University (Academia)
Kevin Storer, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Mankoff, University of Washington
Anja Thieme, Microsoft Research
I have served as a team lead for the Accessibility Inclusion Team at SIGCHI in the year 2019. Our team was responsible for collaborating with SIGCHI Accessibility Group, addressing the issue of Content Accessibility with a specific focus on ‘creating guidelines to use as a standard’. We worked on understanding current SIGCHI conference(s) website accessibility issues to generate web guidelines following WCAG standards of Level AA. Our work includes providing guidelines for alt-text, captions & audio descriptions for videos and creating structural landmarks by using specific HTML elements. Landmarks include headings, lists, tables, and paragraphs.
For example: one way to determine if content has appropriate landmarks is to look at the page without the style sheet.
For example: one way to determine if content has appropriate landmarks is to look at the page without the style sheet.
- When you investigate a Web page without style sheets, determine if structural landmarks are present?
- Does the order make sense or do you jump all over the page?
- Are the paragraphs of text still in chunks?
- Are links running into each other or are they organized in bulleted lists?
Full report can be read here - 2019 Access SIGCHI Report
- SIGCHI Student Volunteer
I have worked as a student volunteer for designing banners for SIGCHI TVX, MobileHCI, and CHI PLAY conferences in 2019. The task was to work directly with three SIGCHI Steering Committee /conference chairs to (re)design of a new and fresh version of their conference banners. Each banner reflected the topics, interests, and specialty inherent in every specialized conferences.