Professor Jonathan Lazar

Research Group: Inclusive Design 
 

Biography

Jonathan Lazar is a Professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland, where he is the founding director of the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) and is a faculty member in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab (HCIL). Professor Lazar has 30 years of experience in human-computer interaction and accessibility. He has previously authored or edited 18 books and published over 200 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, edited books, and magazines, related to human-computer interaction, user-centered and inclusive design, accessibility, policy, and law.  He has received research funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Institute on Disability Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR), Google, and Adobe. He is the recipient of the 2024 IAAP Accessibility Initiatives Award, the 2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility, and the 2016 ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award, is a member of the ACM SIGCHI Academy, and served as the general chair of the 2021 ACM ASSETS conference. His involvement with the EDC goes back to 2006 when he first attended  the Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT). Since 2012,  he has been a co-organizer of CWUAAT.