Accessible Making

The practice and research area focused on ensuring that maker activities—including digital fabrication, crafting, and DIY projects—are accessible to people with disabilities. This encompasses three related concepts: making assistive technologies accessible (ensuring disabled people can create their own AT), making the process of making accessible (ensuring makerspaces, tools, and techniques accommodate diverse abilities), and making for accessibility (creating objects that address accessibility needs). Research in this area examines how disabled makers adapt tools and techniques, how makerspaces can become more inclusive, and how digital fabrication technologies can be designed for diverse users.