October 31, 2024 Kristin Shinohara, Ph.D. iSchool ’17, co-authored a paper that indicates web overlays failed to make sites accessible and provided the following summary. Shinohara, who was advised by CREATE associate director Jacob O. Wobbrock and co-advised by CREATE faculty Wanda Pratt, shared the following summary of the academic paper. The Promise and Pitfalls of Web Accessibility Overlays for Blind and Low Vision Users Published at ASSETS 2024 (ACM Digital Library Link). Authors: Tlamelo Makati, Technical University Dublin; Garreth…
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New Book: Teaching Accessible Computing
March 14, 2024 A new, free, and community-sourced online book helps Computer Science educators integrate accessibility topics into their classes. Teaching Accessibility provides the foundations of accessibility relevant to computer science teaching and then presents teaching methods for integrating those topics into course designs. The editors are Alannah Oleson, a postdoctoral scholar and co-founder at the UW Center for Learning, Computing, and Imagination (LCI), CREATE and iSchool faculty Amy Ko, and Richard Ladner, CREATE Director of Education Emeritus. You may…
Accessibility Do’s and Don’ts
For those designing anything, gov.uk has published best design practices for making services accessible in the form of six posters.