Award for Outstanding Contributions to Computing and Accessibility. Professor Hanson has made sustained and wide-ranging contributions to the field of accessibility, over a distinguished career including industry, academia, and policy organizations. Prof. Hanson’s innovations and research and publications are out in the world, being used every day by
consumers and influencing researchers and developers. She has made countless individual contributions, but also leveraged her positions to enable a massive amount of impact from the many people with whom she has tirelessly collaborated, and those whom she has supported, funded, employed, mentored, advised, and taught.