Chronically Under-Addressed: Considerations for HCI Accessibility Practice with Chronically Ill People
Kelly Mack, Emma J. McDonnell, Leah Findlater, Heather D. Evans · 2022 · Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)
This paper argues that HCI accessibility research has largely overlooked people with chronic illnesses, typically approaching them through a medical lens focused on symptom tracking and treatment compliance rather than recognizing their broader accessibility needs. The authors —…
chronic illness · disability studies · accessibility frameworks · autoethnography · consequence-based accessibility