jeudi 12 mars 2026

par BUTEL Nathalie

Le Professeur Jonathan LAZAR, de l'Université du Maryland aux Etats-Unis est invité par Marco WINCKLER. L'objectif de sa visite couvre le thème de l'accessibilité, en particulier les nouvelles méthodes et les nouveaux outils permettant de développer des applications accessibles dès les premières étapes de la conception.

Cette présentation aura lieu le 12 mars 2026 à 9h30 dans la salle 007 aux Algorithmes.

 

Courte biographie : 

Jonathan Lazar, Professor and Director of the Trace Research & Development Center
 

Dr. Jonathan Lazar is a professor in the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of Maryland. Dr. Lazar joined the iSchool in 2019, after 19 years as a professor of computer and information sciences at Towson University, where he served as director of the information systems program for 14 years. Dr. Lazar has authored or edited 13 books, including Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (2nd edition, co-authored with Heidi Feng and Harry Hochheiser), Ensuring Digital Accessibility Through Process and Policy (co-authored with Dan Goldstein and Anne Taylor), Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology (co-edited with Michael Stein), Universal Usability: Designing Computer Interfaces for Diverse User Populations, and Web Usability: A User-Centered Design Approach. His 14th book, Accessible Technology and the Developing World, will be published by Oxford University Press in mid-2021. He has published over 150 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, edited books, and magazines, and has been granted two US patents for his work on accessible web-based security features for blind users. He frequently serves as an adviser to government agencies and regularly provides testimony at federal and state levels, and multiple US federal regulations cite his research publications. He has been on the executive Board of the Friends of the Maryland Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped since 2009, was co-chair of the Cambridge University Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT) from 2012-2020, and has been on the program committee of the ACM Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS) most years since 2006. Dr. Lazar was the general chair of the ASSETS 2021 conference. Dr. Lazar is the director of the Trace Center and is a faculty member in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab.

 

Titre et résumé :

Methods and Tools for Born-Accessible Design / Méthodes et outils pour une conception accessible dès la conception

Abstract: Digital technologies, applications, websites, and documents are often created without considering accessibility for people with disabilities. Often, the inaccessible technologies or content are remediated for accessibility, remediated for accessibility only when there is a complaint from a person with a disability, or are never remediated for accessibility. Remediating technologies after-the-fact is not a cost-effective approach, and the time delay between when digital technologies and content are built and released and when they are made accessible can itself be a form of societal discrimination. For years, disability rights groups have demanded born-accessible design, and some government policies are starting to require born-accessible design, yet the research literature in human-computer interaction and user experience does not yet define born-accessible design or any methods for born-accessible design. This presentation will focus on describing our work on born-accessible design in two areas: tools and methods. We have been collaborating with Adobe on developing software tools with interventions to support content creators in adding accessibility markup and attributes during their workflow, leading to the creation of born-accessible content which needs no remediation. And on a broader level, we have been working with disability rights groups, technology companies, and policymakers, to build a methodological framework for implementing born-accessible design.