Abstract Disability rights advocates often call for digital content and technologies to be developed using a “born-accessible” approach. There are many potential benefits to using a born-accessible approach, but nowhere in human–computer interaction research or practice literature is the term or approach for “born-accessible” defined. At this point, born-accessible is more of a call to action from the disability community and accessibility researchers rather than an actual methodology to be incorporated into the digital technology research, design, and development lifecycle. The goal of this article is to detail how the Born-Accessible Methodological Framework (BAMF) was defined and developed in three stages: (a) identifying the data that directly informs the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings of the born-accessible approach, (b) the steps required to develop the methodological framework, and then (c) further refining the framework by testing it with two case studies with very different accessibility goals. Through this process, the original four concepts of BAMF were extended into seven concepts. The discussion then reflects upon this process, and it details the resulting BAMF, its benefits, practical implications, underlying assumptions, current limitations, and avenues for future research.
Lazar et al. (Fri,) studied this question.