The 27th International ACM SIGACCESS
Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Denver, Colorado
October 26—29 2025

Jenny, a woman with straight blonde hair and green-framed glasses, wearing a dark plaid blazer over a dark top, smiling slightly at the camera.

Keynote Speaker

Jenny Lay-Flurrie

Vice President, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft

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ASSETS 2025 Awards

Best papers committee: Kathrin Gerling, Kim Marriott, and Shari Trewin

  • Best Paper

    “As Someone Who is Disabled, I am so thankful for Sex Work”: Alternative Approaches to Access Among Disabled Sex-Workers

    • Jay Rodolitz
    • Megan Hofmann
    • Ada Lerner
    • Madiha Tabassum
    • Vaughn Hamilton*
    • Butterfly Hope
    • Northeastern University
      *Human Computing Affiliates

  • Best Student Paper

    NeuroBridge: Using Generative AI to Bridge Cross-neurotype Communication Differences through Neurotypical Perspective-taking

    • Rukhshan Haroon
    • Kyle Wigdor
    • Zihan Yang
    • Nicole Toumanios
    • Dr Eileen T. Crehan
    • Fahad Dogar
    • Tufts University

SIGACCESS ASSETS Paper Impact Award

Shaun K. Kane, Chandrika Jayant, Jacob O. Wobbrock, and Richard E. Ladner. 2009. Freedom to roam: a study of mobile device adoption and accessibility for people with visual and motor disabilities. In Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (Assets '09). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 115–122. https://doi.org/10.1145/1639642.1639663

Photo of the Denver skyline.

The ASSETS conference is the premier forum for presenting research on the design, evaluation, use, and education related to computing for people with disabilities and older adults. We invite high-quality original submissions on topics relevant to computing and accessibility.

All Technical Papers and Posters and Demonstrations submissions are peer-reviewed by an international Program Committee. Accepted papers and the abstracts for posters and demonstrations, experience reports, and the student research competition will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. At least one author of accepted submissions must register as the presenter by the early registration deadline.

Latest Updates

  • (10/28/25) Information about the Feel the Beat workshop and sign up form on our blog.
  • (10/27/25) Information about the social event. Check out details and bus schedule on our blog.
  • (10/22/25) Venue Logistics Details Details on our blog.
  • (10/22/25) Hybrid Presentation Instructions Details on our blog.
  • (10/10/25) ASSETS 2025 Evening Activities Details on our blog.

Things to do

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