Trace R & D Center Investigators (left to right): Hernisa Kacorri, Gregg Vanderheiden, J. Bern Jordan, Amanda Lazar, Jonathan Lazar
Our mission is to capitalize on the potential that technologies hold for people experiencing barriers due to disability, aging, or digital literacy, and to prevent emerging technologies from creating new barriers for these individuals. In doing this, we bring together disciplines such as information science, computer science, engineering, disability studies, law, and public policy. We engage in research, development, tech transfer, education, policy, and advocacy.
We encourage you to make a donation to support the work of the Trace Center.
Morphic is a new open-source tool developed at the Trace Center, for making it easier for people to discover and quickly access and use the accessibility features that are built into computers. And it lets a person’s assistive technologies and settings follow them and appear on any computer they need to use.
For more information, go to the Morphic project web site morphic.org
We will gather, document, and promote the appropriate use of disability data in both disability-related and non-disability-related research and development, to ensure that they are usable by and applicable to people with disabilities.
For more information, go to incluset.com
Researchers can greatly benefit from conducting user-centered design with people with dementia, but may face issues such as recruitment and ensuring research activities are accessible and non-exploitative. Through a range of projects, including intergenerational hackathons, remote research methods, and participatory action research, we are developing new ways to design with people with dementia.
For more information, go to thatlab.umd.edu/papers/2020_supportingRemote.pdf
PDF documents are often considered to be hard to make accessible, and content creators often report that is due to a lack of tools to assist with making PDF files accessible. Our current work, in collaboration with Adobe Research, focuses on creating new software tools to assist content creators in evaluating and remediating their PDF documents for accessibility, specifically in areas such as reading order, table markup, and headings.
Trace Research & Development Center | College of Information Studies, University of Maryland
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Email: trace-info@umd.edu | Tel: (301) 405.2043 | Fax: (301) 314.9145