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Collaborative Approaches to Workplace Accessibility

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CSCW '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Pages 281 - 285

https://doi.org/10.1145/3406865.3418338

Published: 17 October 2020 Publication History

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We conducted narrative semi-structured interviews with three stakeholders to understand how people collaborate around accessibility in the workplace. We describe existing challenges that employers and disabled employees encounter in the workplace and the processes they use to co-create access.

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Collaborative Approaches to Workplace Accessibility
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Empirical studies in accessibility
  2. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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CSCW '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

October 2020

559 pages

ISBN:9781450380591

DOI:10.1145/3406865

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Yildiz Z(2023)Understanding the Role of Socio-Technical Infrastructures on the Organization of Access for the Mixed-Ability CollaboratorsACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing10.1145/3584732.3584739(1-1)Online publication date: 15-Feb-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3584732.3584739
Yıldız ZSubaşı Ö(2023)An Institutional Perspective: How Gatekeepers on a Higher Education Interact for the Organization of AccessComputer Supported Cooperative Work10.1007/s10606-023-09471-w32:3(713-744)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10606-023-09471-w
Wu YDing XDai XZhang PLu TGu N(2022)Alignment Work for Urban Accessibility: A Study of How Wheelchair Users Travel in Urban SpacesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35551656:CSCW2(1-22)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3555165
Yildiz Z(2022)Understanding the Role of Socio-Technical Infrastructures on the Organization of Access for the Mixed-Ability CollaboratorsProceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/3517428.3550410(1-6)Online publication date: 23-Oct-2022
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