Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
15 results found tagged computer science education.
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Nonvisual Support for Understanding and Reasoning about Data Structures
Wimer, Kanchi, and colleagues present Arboretum, a web-based system that generates accessible representations of introductory data structure diagrams (arrays and binary trees) for blind and visually impaired (BVI) computer science students. The autho…
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Teaching Inclusive Thinking to Undergraduate Students in Computing Programs
This paper investigates whether specific teaching interventions in undergraduate computing courses measurably increase students' accessibility awareness and inclusive thinking. The authors note that, while numerous accessibility teaching approaches h…
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Techniques to Assist in Developing Accessibility Engineers
This paper describes the design and outcomes of CMPT 480/840 "Accessible Computing," a computer science course at the University of Saskatchewan focused on producing Accessibility Engineers rather than merely raising awareness of accessibility issues…
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Accessibility Now! Teaching Accessible Computing at the Introductory Level
This paper advocates for teaching accessibility as a core element of introductory computer science courses rather than relegating it to advanced electives. The author describes a web design course at Hamilton College built around an "Accessibility Fi…
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PLUMB: Displaying Graphs to the Blind Using an Active Auditory Interface
This short paper presents PLUMB (exPLoring graphs at UMB), a system developed at UMass Boston that enables blind users to explore relational graphs through an active auditory interface on a tablet PC. The system addresses a fundamental barrier in com…
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Inspiring Blind High School Students to Pursue Computer Science with Instant Messaging Chatbots
This paper describes the design and delivery of a four-day computer science workshop for fifteen blind high school students at the National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam, where two hundred blind and low vision students explored disciplines often…
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Tracking @stemxcomet: Teaching Programming to Blind Students via 3D Printing, Crisis Management, and Twitter
This paper describes the design and execution of a four-day programming workshop for blind and visually impaired high school students, conducted as part of the National Federation of the Blind's STEM-X summer science camp. Nine students (grades 8-12)…
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Addressing Accessibility Barriers in Programming for People with Visual Impairments: A Literature Review
This systematic literature review analyzes 70 papers published between 2000-2020 examining accessibility barriers in programming for people with visual impairments and proposed solutions. The review covers both professional programmers and students l…
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Assistive Technology Design as a Computer Science Learning Experience
This paper from Northwestern University addresses a persistent gap in computer science education: the near-complete absence of accessibility topics from non-HCI computer science courses. The authors first conducted a formative needfinding study with …
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How Teachers of the Visually Impaired Compensate with the Absence of Accessible Block-Based Languages
This paper reports on an interview study with twelve teachers of K-12 students with visual impairments (TVIs) across the United States, investigating how they navigate the lack of fully accessible block-based programming environments. Block-based pro…