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Welcome to the October 2022 issue of the ACM SIGACCESS newsletter. In the first article, Lucy Lu Wang et al. present the next iteration of last year’s ASSETS Best Artifact Award, now called Paper To HTML. In the second article, Sarah Lewthwaite et al. follow up their Best Communication Paper nomination at W4A with insights about researching pedagogy in digital accessibility education.

PAPER TO HTML: A PUBLICLY AVAILABLE WEB TOOL FOR CONVERTING SCIENTIFIC PDFS INTO ACCESSIBLE HTML

In this article, Lucy Lu WangJonathan Bragg, and Daniel S. Weld detail how SciA11y evolved in the last year to Paper to HTML in the pursuit of higher quality paper conversion to accessible HTML.

RESEARCHING PEDAGOGY IN DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY EDUCATION

In this article, Sarah Lewthwaite, Sarah Horton, and Andy Coverdale present the ongoing 5 year study “Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set”. The study seeks to 1) identify catalysts and barriers to the development of accessibility pedagogy, 2) understand how accessibility pedagogy is adapted and 3) how it can be scaled.

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