Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
40 results found tagged accessibility education.
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How Do Professionals Who Create Computing Technologies Consider Accessibility?
This paper presents survey findings about how UX and HCI professionals consider accessibility in their work, based on responses from 199 participants representing a wide range of job titles and nationalities (recruited via IxDA, SIGCHI, and UPA chann…
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CodeA11y: Making AI Coding Assistants Useful for Accessible Web Development
This paper addresses a persistent problem: despite decades of accessibility standards and tools, ~96% of web pages contain accessibility violations. The authors argue that AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot represent an untapped opportunity bec…
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Introducing Web Accessibility to Localization Students: Implications for a Universal Web
This paper explores the intersection of web accessibility and web localization, arguing that localization professionals — the people who adapt digital content for different languages and cultural contexts — should be trained in web accessibility as p…
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Best Practices for Teaching Accessibility in University Classrooms: Cultivating Awareness, Understanding, and Appreciation for Diverse Users
This qualitative study investigates how accessibility is taught in US university computing programs, drawing on interviews with 18 professors from top institutions and content analysis of syllabi and course materials. Framed by "authentic learning" p…
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It could be better. It could be much worse: Understanding Accessibility in User Experience Practice with Implications for Industry and Education
This qualitative study examines how accessibility is understood and practiced within the UX profession through 58 interview sessions with 65 senior UX professionals conducted between 2017 and 2020. Using transitivity analysis from critical discourse …
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Digital Accessibility Education in Context: Expert Perspectives on Building Capacity in Academia and the Workplace
This substantial qualitative study examines how socio-cultural contexts shape digital accessibility education in both academic and workplace settings. The researchers engaged 55 experienced accessibility educators through an expert panel method (30 p…
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How Designing for People With and Without Disabilities Shapes Student Design Thinking
This study investigates how requiring student designers to create technologies for both disabled and non-disabled users influences their understanding of accessibility and design thinking. Unlike typical disability-specific design approaches that pro…
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An educational tool to support the accessibility evaluation process
This paper describes the Accessibility Evaluation Assistant (AEA), a web-based knowledge management tool designed to help novice auditors — primarily computing students — conduct meaningful accessibility evaluations without expert knowledge or access…
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An Educational Tool for Generating Inaccessible Page Examples Based on WCAG 2.0 Failures
This paper presents the Accessibility Example Generator (AEG), an online educational tool from King Saud University and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia, designed to help instructors create modular examples of inaccessib…
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A Survey on the Accessibility Awareness of People Involved in Web Development Projects in Brazil
This paper presents one of the largest surveys of its time examining how people involved in web development projects in Brazil perceive and address accessibility. The researchers conducted an exploratory study using a web-based questionnaire distribu…