This tutorial is presented by the HIDIVE Lab at Harvard Medical School.

Organizers

  • Sehi L’Yi, PhD
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
    • Sehi has received an NIH K99/R00 award from NHGRI to work on enhancing the accessibility of biomedical data resources. His recent work [1] is the first comprehensive accessibility evaluation of biological data portals and journal websites.
  • Lawrence Weru, MS
    • Associate, Harvard Medical School
    • Lawrence has led research to improve the keyboard accessibility of web-based tools [3] and lectured on digital accessibility for the Harvard Pre-College Program. His digital accessibility advocacy work has been featured by the Harvard Gazette, Disability Rights Florida, Slate, and Forbes. During his time as a Dean’s Scholar at Harvard Medical School, he explored how the inaccessible web impacts the health of people with disabilities. He identifies as a person who stutters and currently serves on the board of Harvard Alumni Disability Alliance (HADA).
  • Thomas C. Smits, MS
    • Associate, Harvard Medical School
    • Thomas has been working on improving the accessibility of genomics data by creating an automatic description tool (AltGosling) [2] and investigating the effect of various descriptions on the mental models of blind users [4].
  • Nils Gehlenborg, PhD
    • Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School
    • Nils directs the HIDIVE Lab at Harvard Medical School, which focuses on the role of humans — scientists, clinicians, and patients — in biomedical data integration, visualization, and exploration. His goal is to make biomedical data accessible to all.