arXiv Accessibility Forum 2023 — Lucas Nadolskis: Working twice as hard for less information
Channel: arXiv
Date: 25/04/2023

Lucas Nadolskis, 2023 Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; Incoming Neurosciences PhD Candidate, University of California Santa Barbara.

In this presentation, Lucas shares the real impact of inaccessible content on the daily life of a researcher. To quote from his presentation: “HTML has improved our lives… I think every blind person that works on research is familiar with that we need to work at least twice as much as everybody else. In order for me not to work 10, 11 hours a day to access half of a paper, because the process to convert that paper was not perfect, the only way I could do this is through HTML.”

Lucas is passionate about what it will take to address inaccessible research publication at scale and how to make analytical data more accessible.