Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
15 results found tagged computer science education.
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Including Accessibility in Computer Science Education
This workshop paper addresses a persistent gap in computing education: accessibility knowledge and skills are rarely included systematically in undergraduate computing curricula, despite being essential for producing software professionals who can bu…
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Accessible Blockly: An Accessible Block-Based Programming Library for People with Visual Impairments
This paper presents Accessible Blockly, a prototype library that augments Google's Blockly — the open-source library underlying most mainstream block-based programming environments (Scratch, MakeCode, AppInventor) — with keyboard and screen reader in…
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An Approach to Teach Accessibility with Gamification
This extended abstract proposes a gamification-based approach for teaching web accessibility to undergraduate Computer Science and Software Engineering students as part of a web design course. The authors identify a gap in accessibility education: wh…
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of STEM Images Captioning
This paper from the University of Genoa reports on an experiment comparing human-written and AI-generated alternative text descriptions for complex STEM images — graphs, diagrams, scientific illustrations, and mathematical figures. The researchers re…
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Preliminary Results from a Survey to Measure the Benefits of Accessibility and Universal Design Topics in Course Curricula
This paper presents preliminary findings from a national survey conducted by the University of Colorado Boulder as part of the Promoting the Integration of Universal Design into University Curricula (UDUC) project. The 24-question survey was distribu…