Literature Reviews
Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.
10 results found tagged pedagogy.
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Considerations for VR Integration into Human-Centered Computing Education
This paper investigates the practical considerations that Human-Centered Computing (HCC) educators perceive as important when integrating Virtual Reality (VR) into their teaching. Despite sustained interest in VR as an educational tool—particularly f…
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Understanding the Motivations of Final-year Computing Undergraduates for Considering Accessibility
This 22-page ACM Transactions on Computing Education article asks a question that most accessibility education research has side-stepped: what happens to students’ motivation to build accessible technology two years after a required accessibility-edu…
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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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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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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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Exploring pedagogical culture for accessibility education in computing science
This paper examines the state of accessibility education in computing science through the lens of pedagogy—the theory and practice of teaching and learning. Lewthwaite and Sloan argue that while significant efforts are underway to embed accessibility…
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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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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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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…