Peya Mowar
peyajm29 [at] cmu [dot] edu

A sketch of the head of Scotty, CMU's mascot scottish terrier. Below its collar is handwritten - 'My heart is in the work' and signed @peyajm29.

My research goal is to make visual information accessible.

For a comprehensive and up-to-date list of my publications, please refer to Google Scholar.

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
paper / video / slides

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

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.
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

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

Towards Optimizing OCR for Accessibility
Peya Mowar, Tanuja Ganu, Saikat Guha
AVA: Accessibility, Vision, and Autonomy Meet (CVPR Workshop), 2022
paper

Visual Assistance

An example image captured by blind users in the VizWiz dataset asking about a cartoon character.
Shifted Reality: Navigating Altered Visual Inputs with Multimodal LLMs
Yuvanshu Agarwal, Peya Mowar
VizWiz Grand Challenge (CVPR Workshop), 2024
paper


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