About Me

Hi! I’m a Research Scientist at  Apple AI/ML, where I design and research accessibility technology. I recently completed my Ph.D. thesis focusing on how to make social media more accessible for people with vision impairments at Carnegie Mellon University, where I worked in the CMU Accessibility Lab and was advised by Jeffrey Bigham and Kris Kitani.

Recent Publications

• 2020

  • Making GIFs Accessible

    (ASSETS '20 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Himalini Gururaj, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

  • Disability and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Using Twitter to Understand Accessibility during Rapid Societal Transition

    (ASSETS '20 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Stephanie Valencia-Valencia, Lynn Kirabo, Jason Wu, Anhong Guo, Elizabeth J. Carter, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Cynthia L. Bennett, and Amy Pavel.

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    Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Make Twitter Images Accessible

    (CHI '20 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Emma McCamey, Christina Low, Patrick Carrington, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

    Best Paper Honourable Mention Award (Top 5%)

• 2019

  • Addressing the Accessibility of Social Media

    (CSCW '19 Extended Abstract) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B Chilton, Benjamin M Gorman, Hernisa Kacorri, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Meredith Ringel Morris, Garreth W Tigwell, and Shaomei Wu.

  • Twitter A11y: A Browser Extension to Describe Images

    (ASSETS '19 Poster) [PDF]

    Christina Low, Emma McCamey, Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Jeffrey P. Bigham, and Amy Pavel.

  • Making Memes Accessible

    (ASSETS '19 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Amy Pavel, Xingyu Liu, Patrick Carrington, Lydia B. Chilton, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.

  • "It’s almost like they’re trying to hide it": How User-Provided Image Descriptions Have Failed to Make Twiter Accessible

    (WWW '19 Paper) [PDF]

    Cole Gleason, Patrick Carrington, Cameron Cassidy, Meredith Ringel Morris, Kris M. Kitani, and Jeffrey P. Bigham.