TLDR:

Recently, I built two AI tools, CodeA11y and iTagPDF, that help automatically produce and preserve accessibility metadata for websites and PDFs, respectively.

Towards Automating Accessibility in Digital Authoring Workflows — talk / slides / document

Publications

For a comprehensive list of my publications, please refer to Google Scholar.

Media Accessibility
A sketch of two hands holding an Indian newspaper, divided into various segments marked by different bounding boxes. These boxes represent the visualization output from an image segmentation system used for digitizing print newspapers.
🏆 iTagPDF: Towards Finally Automating PDF Accessibility
Peya Mowar, Aaron Steinfeld, Jeffrey Bigham
ACM CHI, 2026 (Best Paper Award)
project website
We Write Our Research Papers in WYSIWYM. Why Do We Tag Our PDFs in WYSIWYG?
Peya Mowar, Aaron Steinfeld, Jeffrey Bigham
ACM ASSETS (Posters Track), 2025
paper / poster
Breaking the News Barrier: Towards Understanding News Consumption Practices among BVI Individuals in India
Peya Mowar, Meghna Gupta, Mohit Jain
ACM ASSETS, 2024
paper / video / slides

Accessibility Developer Tools
A UI developer is writing the UI code that is rendered as a website a person accesses through audio headphones. There is a soft big robot representing an AI agent instructing the developer to reduce accessibility errors in the code. The image is cartoon styled and generated through ChatGPT.
CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development
Peya Mowar, Yi-Hao Peng, Jason Wu, Aaron Steinfeld, Jeffrey Bigham
ACM CHI, 2025
project website
Tab to Autocomplete: The Effects of AI Coding Assistants on Web Accessibility
Peya Mowar, Yi-Hao Peng, Aaron Steinfeld, Jeffrey Bigham
ACM ASSETS (Posters Track), 2024
paper / poster / video
Accessibility in AI-Assisted Web Development
Peya Mowar
ACM International Web for All Conference (W4A) Doctoral Consortium, 2024
paper / slides