Infrastructuring as Collective Resistance: How Disabled Students Negotiate Access Through Technology in Universities
Carolyn Kim Ly, Trevor Cross, Selin Tasman, Jocelyn Mattka, Olivia Doggett, Megh Marathe, Priyank Chandra · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
Ly, Cross, Tasman, Mattka, Doggett, Marathe, and Chandra examine how disabled students at a large Canadian university collectively negotiate access when the institution's individualised accommodations system fails them. Through semi-structured interviews (60-90 min) with 13…
higher education accessibility · access work · infrastructuring · mutual aid · disability justice