Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

3 results found tagged coding education.

Making the Blockly Library Accessible via Touchscreen

Logan B. Caraco, Sebastian Deibel, Yufan Ma, Lauren R. Milne (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

This demonstration paper presents two prototype designs for making Google's Blockly library — the foundation underlying popular block-based programming environments (BBPEs) like Scratch, MIT App Inventor, and the Code.org curriculum — accessible to u…
Web Development Training for Students That Are Blind

Claire Ferrari (2019) — Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This doctoral consortium paper outlines a mixed-methods dissertation research plan for developing and evaluating a 10-day web development course specifically designed for students who are blind or have low vision. The author contextualizes the work w…
Blind Web Development Training at Oysters and Pearls Technology Camp in Uganda

Claire Ferrari, Amy Hurst, Scott Fitzgerald (2019) — Proceedings of the 16th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

This paper describes the development and delivery of a 7-day web development course for 13 blind and low-vision students (ages 18-35, average 24) at the Oysters and Pearls Technology Camp in Gulu, northern Uganda. None of the students had prior exper…