CREATE is the Center for Research and Education on Accessible Technology and Experiences. Our mission is to make technology accessible and to make the world accessible through technology.
The need for greater access
A core mantra of the disability movement is “Nothing about us without us,” yet technical advances often assume a certain set of abilities, limit customizability, and fail to include people with disabilities as creators of technology.
The major challenges of creating accessible technology and of making the world accessible through technology are outpacing even the most talented individual researchers and small teams.
Partner with UsTaking accessibility to the next level
By supporting CREATE, you support education, fund research, and translate those to real-world solutions for the 1 in 4 people in the U.S. who have disabilities.
Donate to CREATECross-campus, interdisciplinary team
A consortium of faculty from the University of Washington’s Allen School, Mechanical Engineering, School of Medicine, and the iSchool.
CREATE & community calendar
APRIL 5 – May 1
Disability Allyship 26-Day Challenge!
Starting April 5, spend 5-20 minutes/day expanding your knowledge of ableism and your perspective of disability. 26 days to mirror the take-over of a federal building in San Francisco by disability activists demanding Section 504 be signed into law. Then, on May 8, join an online forum to discuss the Challenge and how to move forward with allyship.
Feldner and Mankoff on CREATE:
The center’s long-term goals, ongoing research highlights, and their views of common misconceptions about disability
CREATE Director Jennifer Mankoff and Associate Director Heather Feldner appeared on the CREATE-ing Access episode of National Science Foundation’s NSF Discovery Files. Give it a look and give it a like!
YEAR 3 IMPACT REPORT:
CREATE’s Accomplishments in Research, Education, Translation, and Leadership and New Goals
Our annual look at the past year’s goals and accomplishments addresses fostering research and education excellence; an added focus on the understudied area of Race, Technology and Disability; growth in the depth and breadth of our partnerships; and meaningful translation results. We outline new goals to further strategic applications in priority areas and to move the field of accessibility forward in AI+Accessibility, connecting projects with disabled perspectives and study participants, training and supporting accessibility researchers, and fundraising.
