Disability, differences, and diversity: Revisiting inclusive design and access

Verma, Himanshu; Barbareschi, Giulia; Ppali, Sophia; Gerling, Kathrin; De Meulder, Maartje; Good, Judith; Singh, Jatinder; Spiel, Katta; El Ali, Abdallah; Constantinides, Marios; Matera, Maristella; Perusquía-Hernández, Monica; Alavi, Hamed; César Garcia, Pablo Santiago; Bozzon, Alessandro

doi:10.1145/3772363.3778798

Over 1.3 billion people worldwide live with long-term disabilities, yet many still face systemic exclusion despite advances in accessibility policy and technology. New regulations such as the EU Accessibility Act demand comprehensive transitions, but compliance risks becoming a superficial "checklist" exercise rather than fostering meaningful inclusion. For the HCI community, this moment calls for rethinking our approaches to participation, technology, ethics, and policy. In this meetup, we bring together researchers, practitioners, and advocates to revisit inclusive design through four themes: rethinking inclusive methodologies, disentangling technological challenges, unpacking ethical implications, and navigating policy opportunities. Through interactive mapping activities, participants will share practices, identify collaboration opportunities, and co-develop future directions. Our goal is to build cross-disciplinary connections and create actionable approaches that move beyond compliance toward holistic inclusion, ensuring that accessibility remains central to HCI research and practice.

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Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Persistent URL	doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778798
Project	Inclusive Technologies for Access and Social Participation
Conference	CHI EA '26: Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Rights	creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Grant	This work was funded by the NWO TTW Perspectief; grant id nwo/P23.018 - Inclusive Technologies for Access and Social Participation (TACIT)
Organisation	Distributed and Interactive Systems
Citation APA APA Style APA-ALL Style AAA Style Cell Style Chicago Style Harvard Style IEEE Style MLA Style Nature Style Vancouver Style American-Institute-of-Physics Style Council-of-Science-Editors Style BibTex Format Endnote Format RIS Format CSL Format DOIs only Format	Verma, H., Barbareschi, G., Ppali, S., Gerling, K., De Meulder, M., Good, J., Singh, J., Spiel, K., El Ali, A., Constantinides, M., Matera, M., Perusquía-Hernández, M., Alavi, H., César Garcia, P. S.& Bozzon, A. (2026). Disability, differences, and diversity: Revisiting inclusive design and access. CHI EA: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 798:1–798:4.https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778798