Aashaka Desai

According to our database, Aashaka Desai authored at least 14 papers between 2022 and 2026.

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2026

Race, Disability, and Technology: A Call to Action for Accessibility Researchers.

Aashaka Desai, Aaleyah Lewis, Sanika Moharana, Anne Spencer Ross, Jennifer Mankoff, Christina N. Harrington

ACM Trans. Access. Comput., March, 2026

2025

Investigating Dictionary Expansion for Video-based Sign Language Dictionaries.

Aashaka Desai, Daniela Massiceti, Richard E. Ladner, Hal Daumé III, Danielle Bragg, Alex Xijie Lu

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

Exploring Reduced Feature Sets for American Sign Language Dictionaries.

Ben Kosa, Aashaka Desai, Alex X. Lu, Richard E. Ladner, Danielle Bragg

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Toward Language Justice: Exploring Multilingual Captioning for Accessibility.

Aashaka Desai, Rahaf Alharbi, Stacy Hsueh, Richard E. Ladner, Jennifer Mankoff

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Beyond Beautiful: Embroidering Legible and Expressive Tactile Graphics.

Margaret Ellen Seehorn, Claris Winston, Bo Liu, Gene S.-H. Kim, Emily White, Nupur Gorkar, Kate S. Glazko, Aashaka Desai, Jerry Cao, Megan Hofmann, Jennifer Mankoff

Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2025

Exploring Disability Culture Through Accounts of Disabled Innovators of Accessibility Technology.

Aashaka Desai, Jennifer Mankoff, Richard E. Ladner

Proceedings of the 27th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2025

2024

Systemic Biases in Sign Language AI Research: A Deaf-Led Call to Reevaluate Research Agendas.

Aashaka Desai, Maartje de Meulder, Julie A. Hochgesang, Annemarie Kocab, Alex X. Lu

CoRR, 2024

2023

ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition.

Aashaka Desai, Lauren Berger, Fyodor O. Minakov, Vanessa Milan, Chinmay Singh, Kriston Pumphrey, Richard E. Ladner, Hal Daumé III, Alex X. Lu, Naomi Caselli, Danielle Bragg

CoRR, 2023

ASL Citizen: A Community-Sourced Dataset for Advancing Isolated Sign Language Recognition.

Aashaka Desai, Lauren Berger, Fyodor Minakov, Nessa Milano, Chinmay Singh, Kriston Pumphrey, Richard E. Ladner, Hal Daumé III, Alex X. Lu, Naomi Caselli, Danielle Bragg

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Understanding and Enhancing The Role of Speechreading in Online d/DHH Communication Accessibility.

Aashaka Desai, Jennifer Mankoff, Richard E. Ladner

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

Maintaining the Accessibility Ecosystem: a Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Accessibility in Higher Education.

Kelly Avery Mack, Natasha A Sidik, Aashaka Desai, Emma J. McDonnell, Kunal Mehta, Christina Zhang, Jennifer Mankoff

Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2023

Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability and Accessibility.

Christina N. Harrington, Aashaka Desai, Aaleyah Lewis, Sanika Moharana, Anne Spencer Ross, Jennifer Mankoff

Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2023

An Autoethnographic Case Study of Generative Artificial Intelligence's Utility for Accessibility.

Kate S. Glazko, Momona Yamagami, Aashaka Desai, Kelly Avery Mack, Venkatesh Potluri, Xuhai Xu, Jennifer Mankoff

Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2023

2022

Enhancing access to high quality tangible information through machine embroidered tactile graphics.

Margaret Ellen Seehorn, Gene S.-H. Kim, Aashaka Desai, Megan Hofmann, Jennifer Mankoff

Proceedings of the SCF '22: Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational Fabrication, 2022