Including Accessibility Within and Beyond Undergraduate Computing Courses

Annalu Waller, Vicki Hanson and David Sloan

Eleventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2009)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, October 26-28, 2009

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Abstract

Accessibility is not consistently taught – if taught at all – in undergraduate computing courses. This paper presents a unique approach to undergraduate teaching in which accessibility topics are completely integrated throughout the curriculum, treating accessibility not as a separate topic, but rather as an integral part of design and development. Means of accomplishing this integration throughout the entire four-year curriculum are presented. We also describe how our expertise in accessible design has extended beyond the education of CS students to include Web content authors across campus.