Disability Services and Education Services
College of Applied Health Sciences
University of Illinoisat Urbana/Champaign
Phone: (217) 244-5870
E-mail: jongund@illinois.edu
Education
- 1992: Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- 1984: M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 1980: B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Professional Organizations
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- Educause
- Assistive Technology and Higher Education Nework (ATHEN)
- Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
Awards
- Campus Academic Professional Excellence (CAPE) Award (2007)
- AHS Academic Professional Excellence Award (2007)
- ALS Academic Professional Excellence Award (2000)
- McBurney Disability Resource Center Outstanding Volunteer Award (1992)
- General Electric Forgivable Loan (1991)
- IBM Research Fellowship (1990)
Recent Publications
Jon Gunderson, Nicholas Hoyt (2007) “Tools for Testing Functional Web Accessibility”, Proceedings of the 2007 Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Hasegawa-Johnson, M., Gunderson, J., Perlman, A., and Huang, T. (2006) “HMM-Based and SVM-Based Recognition of the Speech of Talkers with Spastic Dysarthria,” Proceedings of 31st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France.
Gunderson, J and Schwerdtfeger, R. (2006) Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension, Proceedings of the 2006 Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, Los Angeles, CA
Gunderson, J and Bargi Rangin, H. (2006) UIUC Practices, Tools and Techniques for Functional Web Accessibility, Proceedings of the 2006 Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA
Gunderson, J. and May, M. (2005) W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines and Test Suite Version 2.0 and Implementation report. Center On Disabilities: Technology And Persons with Disabilities Conference 2005, http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2005/proceedings/2363.htm.
Gunderson, J., and Linder, D. (2004) Web Accessibility Wizard for Microsoft Office, Proceedings of the CSUN Conference, http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2004/proceedings/282.htm
Linder, D. and Gunderson, J. (2003) Publishing Accessible WWW Presentations from Power Point Slide Presentations, Proceedings of the RESNA 26th Conference .
Gunderson, J. and Allan, J. (2003) W3C User Agents Accessibility Guidelines: Implementation and Test Suites, Proceedings of the CSUN Conference, URL: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2003/proceedings/190.htm
Linder, D. and Gunderson, J. (2003) Publishing Accessible WWW Presentations from Power Point Slide Presentations, Proceedings of the CSUN Conference, URL: http://www.csun.edu/cod/conf/2003/proceedings/174.htm
Gunderson, J., Ian Jacobs, I., May, M. (2003) W3C Note: Implementation Report for UAAG 1.0, http://www.w3.org/WAI/UA/impl-pr2/
Jacobs, I, Gunderson, J. and Hansen, E. (eds) (2002) W3C Recommendation: User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10/.
Jacobs, I, Gunderson, J. and Hansen, E. (eds) (2002) W3C Note: Techniques for User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10-TECHS/.
Gunderson, J. (2002) W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines, Proceedings of the RESNA 25th Conference, pp. 103-105.
Gunderson, J. and Linder, D. (2002) AccessX and OnScreen Keyboard for LINUX, Proceedings of the RESNA 25th Conference, pp. 123-125.
Gunderson, J. (2002) W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines. Proceedings of the 17th Annual International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA.
Gunderson, J. (2001) W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA.
Gunderson, J. and Zhang, S. C. (2001) Publishing Accessible WWW Presentations from Power Point Slide Presentations, Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA.
Gunderson, J. (2001) UIUC Summer Computer Technology Camps for High School Student with Disabilities. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA.
Gunderson, J. and Linder, D. (2001) AccessX: LINUX and XFree86 Accessibility. Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Technology and Persons with Disabilities, Los Angeles, CA.
Gunderson, J. (1999) W3C Web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines, Closing the Gap, Volume 17, Number 6.
Gunderson, J. (1998) Independent literacy in the information age: Changing the way disability services are provided at UIUC. Proceedings of the RESNA 98 Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society, Minneapolis, MN, pp 5-7.
Gunderson, J. (1998) W3C Web Accessibility Initiative: Development of WWW Browser User Interface Guidelines Proceedings of the RESNA 98 Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society, Minneapolis, MN, pp 343-345.
Gunderson, J. (1997) Universal Design: Development of an Accessible WWW Browser. Proceedings of the RESNA Rehabilitation Engineering Conference, Pittsburgh, PA., pp 503-505.
Gunderson, J. and Mendelson, R. (1997) Usability of World Wide Web Browsers by Persons with Visual Impairments. Proceedings of the RESNA Rehabilitation Engineering Conference, Pittsburgh, PA., pp 330-332.
Gunderson, J. (1995) Strategies for improving access to the Internet and the World Wide, Proceedings of the RESNA Rehabilitation Engineering Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, pp 608-610.
Gunderson, J. And Rounds, D. (1994) Adaptive Prediction Techniques to Improve Pointing Performance by People with Physical Disabilities, Proceedings of the IEA’94 Conference, Toronto, Canada, August 15-19.
Gunderson, J. (1993) Intelligent task based Model for the design of screen review systems for people with blindness, in Salvendy, G. and Smith, M. J. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction: Software and Hardware Interfaces, pp 736-741.
Gunderson, J. (1993) Intelligent task based Model for the design of screen review systems for people with blindness, International Conference on Human/Computer Interaction, Orlando, Florida, Aug. 8-14, pp 736-741.
Gunderson, J. (1991) Limits of intelligibility of accelerated synthesized speech by in experienced sighted and experienced blind listeners. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Human Factors Society Conference, San Francisco, California, pp 496-500.
Gunderson, J. (1991) Software design guidelines for a case load management system for use with screen review programs. Proceedings of the RESNA Rehabilitation Engineering Conference, Kansas City, Missouri.
Gunderson, J, Gruetzmacher, G. and Swanson, N. (1991) Legibility of seven segment numeric displays: comparisons of two fonts at various distances. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Human Factors Society Conference, San Francisco, California, pp 491-495.
Gunderson, J. (1990) Preliminary results of the Perception of Accelerated Synthesized Speech by Inexperienced Sighted Individuals and Experienced Individuals with Blindness. Proceedings of the Mid-West Regional Conference of the Human Factors Society, Dayton, Ohio.
Smith, R., Christiansen, R., Borden, B., Lindberg, D., Gunderson, J. and Vanderheiden, G. (1989) Effectiveness of a writing system using a computerized long range optical pointer and 10-branch abbreviation expansion. Journal Rehabilitation Research and Development, Vol. 16:1, pp 51-62.
Gunderson, J. (1988) A information processing model of human computer interaction for people with blindness and severe visual impairments. Proceedings of State of the Art Conference on Computer Access by the Blind, Madison, WI, October. Madison, Wisconsin.
Gunderson, J. and Vanderheiden, G. (1988) One screen alternative keyboard for IBM PC and compatible computers. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering, Montreal, Canada, June.
Gunderson, J., Rodgers, B., Fishman, S., Crocker, K. and Vanderheiden, G. (1985) The Trine system a multi-functional communication aid for the severely physically handicapped. Proceedings of the 7th annual conference of the IEEE engineering in medicine and biology society, Chicago, IL.
Gunderson, J. and Vanderheiden, G. (1984) Portable Writing, conversation and computer access aid. Proceedings of Discovery 1984, Chicago, IL.
Gunderson, J. and Vanderheiden, G. (1984) A portable computer based writing, conversation and computer access aid for the severely motor impaired individuals. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering, Ottawa, Canada.
Kelso, D. and Gunderson, J. (1984) Generic keyboard emulator architecture for transparent access to standard software by handicapped individuals. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering, Ottawa, Canada, June.
Rodgers, B. and Gunderson, J. (1984) Development of a set of international communication aids compatibility standards proposals. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Rehabilitation Engineering, Ottawa, Canada, June.
Gunderson, J. and Vanderheiden, G. (1983) Input into standard computers using a TV screen-based keyboard. Proceedings of Discovery 1983, Minneapolis, MN.
Gunderson, J., Kelso, D. and Vanderheiden, G. (1982) A multifunction alternative computer “KEYBOARD” for the physically handicapped using headpointing technique. ,Proceedings from the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Computing to aid the handicapped, Charlottesville, VA.
Chapters
Gunderson, J. (2008) Desktop Browsers. in Simon Harper (Ed) Web Accessibility: A Foundation for Research, Springer Verlag.
Thompson, T., Burgstahler, S., Moore, E., Gunderson, J., Hoyt, N. (2007) International Research on Web Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities. in Mehdi Khosrow-Pour (Ed) Managing Worldwide Operations and Communications with Information Technology, IGI Global.
Gunderson, J. (2004) “Designing Universally Accessible WWW Resources”, a chapter in Hossein Bidgoli (Ed) The Internet Encyclopedia, , John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Strauss, M. and Gunderson, J. (1995) “Applications in Rehabilitation Engineering”, in Bronzino, J. D. (Ed), Handbook of Biomedical Engineering, CRC Press.
Gunderson, J. (1985) “Interfacing the motor impaired for control and communication”, in J. G. Webster, A. M. Cook, W. J. Tompkins and G.C. Vanderheiden (Ed.) Electronic Devices for Rehabilitation, Chapman and Hall.
Gunderson, J. (1985) “Conversation aids for the non-vocal physically impaired persons”, in J. G. Webster, A. M. Cook, W. J. Tompkins and G.C. Vanderheiden (Ed.) Electronic Devices for Rehabilitation, Chapman and Hall.
Patent
• Patent granted January, 1986 for Long Range Optical Pointing for Video Screens. Patent held by University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation