Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
40 results found tagged accessibility education.
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Comparison of Methods for Teaching Accessibility in University Computing Courses
This paper presents the first controlled, longitudinal comparison of methods for teaching accessibility in university computing programs. Conducted over four years (2016-2020) at Rochester Institute of Technology, the study involved 29 sections of a …
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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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Improving Web and Mobile Accessibility Resources for Iranian Designers
This doctoral consortium paper presents early-stage research investigating how cultural differences affect accessible design practices, with a specific focus on Iranian designers. The author, Laleh Nourian at Rochester Institute of Technology, frames…
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Teaching accessibility as a shared endeavour: building capacity across academic and workplace contexts
This short paper reports on qualitative research with 30 expert accessibility educators from academia and the workplace, drawn from a larger study called "Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set" (2019-2024). Using expert panel method — a par…
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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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Harnessing lived experience to promote accessible employment journeys
This short paper describes the Inclusive Employability initiative at Edith Cowan University (ECU) in Perth, Australia, developed in 2024 to support students from equity cohorts — including people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander…
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Teaching Accessibility in Different Disciplines: Topics, Approaches, Resources, Challenges
This workshop proposal addresses a significant gap in accessibility education: while teaching accessibility has been extensively explored within computer science and related computing disciplines, its integration into other fields remains under-inves…
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Teaching Accessibility Across Disciplines: Perspectives from ADA Title II
This workshop paper describes an interdisciplinary workshop held at ASSETS 2025 focused on how accessibility is taught across different academic disciplines, with particular attention to the implications of ADA Title II compliance for educational ins…
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Tenets for Social Accessibility: Towards Humanizing Disabled People in Design
This paper investigates how student designers think about disability and accessibility when tasked with designing for multiple users with and without disabilities, and uses the findings to refine the Design for Social Accessibility framework. Conduct…
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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…