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Accessibility of research data to disabled users has received scant attention in literature and practice. In this paper we briefly survey the current state of accessibility for research data and suggest some first steps that repositories should take to make their holdings more accessible. We then describe in depth how those steps were implemented at the Qualitative Data Repository (QDR), a domain repository for qualitative social-science data. The paper discusses accessibility testing and improvements on the repository and its underlying software, changes to the curation process to improve accessibility, as well as efforts to retroactively improve the accessibility of existing collections. We conclude by describing key lessons learned during this process as well as next steps. 

Abstract Adjacent dyadic systems are pivotal in analysis and related fields to study continuous objects via collections of dyadic ones. In our prior work (joint with Jiang, Olson, and Wei), we describe precise necessary and sufficient conditions for two dyadic systems on the real line to be adjacent. Here, we extend this work to all dimensions, which turns out to have many surprising difficulties due to the fact that $d+1$ , not $2^d$ , grids is the optimal number in an adjacent dyadic system in $\mathbb {R}^d$ . As a byproduct, we show that a collection of $d+1$ dyadic systems in $\mathbb {R}^d$ is adjacent if and only if the projection of any two of them onto any coordinate axis are adjacent on $\mathbb {R}$ . The underlying geometric structures that arise in this higher-dimensional generalization are interesting objects themselves, ripe for future study; these lead us to a compact, geometric description of our main result. We describe these structures, along with what adjacent dyadic (and n -adic, for any n ) systems look like, from a variety of contexts, relating them to previous work, as well as illustrating a specific exa. 

Abstract In this paper, we construct an explicit family of measures that are $p$-adic doubling for any given pair of primes, yet not doubling. This generalizes the construction by Boylan, Mills, and Ward on a structure theorem on the intersection of dyadic doubling measures and tri-adic doubling measures. As some byproducts, we apply these results to show analogous statements about the reverse Hölder and Muckenhoupt $A_p$ classes of weights.