Dr. Jonathan Lazar is the Executive Director of the Maryland Initiative for Digital Accessibility (MIDA) and is a professor in the College of Information Studies (iSchool) at the University of Maryland. Dr. Lazar has authored or edited 16 books and published 200 refereed articles on digital accessibility, human-computer interaction, and disability rights law. His books include Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction (2nd edition, co-authored with Heidi Feng and Harry Hochheiser), Ensuring Digital Accessibility Through Process and Policy (co-authored with Dan Goldstein and Anne Taylor), and Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology (co-edited with Michael Stein). He frequently serves as an adviser to government agencies and regularly provides testimony at federal and state levels, and multiple US federal regulations cite his research publications on digital accessibility. He has been on the Executive Board of the Friends of the Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled since 2009, was the general chair for the ACM Conference on Accessible Computing (ASSETS) 2021, and is the recipient of the 2016 ACM SIGCHI Social Impact Award, the 2020 ACM SIGACCESS Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility, and is a 2021 inductee into the ACM SIGCHI Academy.
