Infrastructuring for Access: Co-Designing Writing Tools with a Dyslexic Academic
Emily Q. Wang, Aron S. Marie · 2026 · Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26)
Wang and Marie propose Infrastructuring for Access, a design approach that weaves together HCI's infrastructuring theory (Star, Pipek, Ruhleder) with Disability Studies' critique of ableism and with Repair Studies. Unlike Universal Design and Ability-Based Design, which focus on…
dyslexia · print disability · writing tools · spell checkers · infrastructuring