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Despite growing interest in accessible texting for people who are blind and visually impaired (BVI), little is known about the practice of texting when on the move, and especially while using assistive technologies. To address this gap, we conducted an interview-based study with 20 BVIs who text while travelling. Our findings revealed that participants engage in text outside their home in four recurrent situations: walking to a destination, waiting for public transportation, riding in a vehicle, or approaching a point of interest. Moreover, to safely send a text, participants express the need for receiving a range of information about their surroundings, including the distance to destination, upcoming obstacles, traffic jams, and weather conditions. Based on these findings, we examine three modes of situational feedback cues to integrate with messaging applications: text-based, sound effects, and tactile. Our work discusses design directions to enhance the texting experience in nomadic contexts for people who are blind and visually impaired. 

Even when they are able to secure employment, people with cognitive disabilities typically encounter significant difficulties in the workplace. In this paper, we focus on Mixed-Ability workplaces: work settings in which people without disabilities and with different types of disabilities collaborate on a daily basis. The case study for our exploratory research is a university library that has been able to support a mixed-ability work setting for over four years. We describe how a theory from cognitive linguistics (Conceptual Metaphor Theory) can be used to explore the challenges that people encounter in mixed-ability workplaces, identify the cognitive processes that differ between neurotypical team leaders and workers with cognitive disabilities, and translate these findings into design recommendations for embodied technologies that support mixed-ability workplaces.