Webliography for ‘Grafting Accessibility onto Computer Science Education’

References for ‘Grafting Accessibility Onto Computer Science’ Education

This webliography accompanies an article on <‘As Your World Changes; post on ‘Grafting Accessibility onto Computer Science Education’ Dec 7 2009 That article analyzes trends in Society, technology, and Science and suggests actions for exercises, projects, and debates suitable for traditional computer science courses. See also a recording of how CS web sites appear to a visually impaired person using a screen reader.
The article’s theme is the application of computational thinking to accessibility problems and techniques.

Computational Thinking


  1. Computational Thinking and Thinking About Computing, Jeannette wing, Royal Society


  2. Jon Udell Podcast Interview with Dr. Jeannette Wing on Computational Thinking


  3. Jon Udell Interview Podcast with Joan Peckham on NSF Computational Thinking activities


  4. Center for Computational Thinking Carnegie Mellon University

Accessibility Resources


  1. IEEE ‘Accessing the Future’ 09 Conference

    Recommendation 1: # In standards and universal design it is imperative that accessibility and the needs of people with disabilities are incorporated into the education of those who will generate future ICT.

  2. Assistive Tech and organization conferences and exhibits, e.g. CSUN Cal State North ridge accessibility conference(San Diego)

  3. User Centered Design Blog post on future of accessibility


  4. Project Possibility Open Source for Accessibility


  5. Knowbility Consulting, John Slatan Access U


  6. Business Week series on assistive technology


  7. Understanding Progressive Enhancement


  8. National Center on Technology Innovation brief on Assistive Technology

    Portability, customization, etc.


  9. Five Key Trends in Assistive Technology, NCIT summarized


  10. Webaim.org with guidelines, validator, NVDA testing, screen reader survey


  11. Opera’s MOMA Discovers What’s Under the Web Hood


  12. Hakob Nielsen AlertBox and Beyond ALT Report


  13. Podcast series on practical accessibility, see #74 ‘Back to Basics’


  14. Video on importance of HTML headings


  15. gov 2.0: Transparency without Accessibility? (FCW)


  16. Clifford Nass ‘Wire for speech’ book and experiments

Web Standards and Accessibility References


  1. STC Society of Technical Communicators Accessibility SIG


  2. WAI Web Accessibility Initiative of W3c


  3. WCAG 2.0 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines


  4. #Accessibility or #a11y tracks tweets using AccessibleTwitter


  5. The Web standards Mafia honored Nov. 30 Web standards day

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  6. Interact open web standards curriculum project


  7. Opera’s Web standards Curriculum


  8. Online book on Integrating Accessibility in design ‘Just Ask’


  9. How People with Disabilities use the Web

Computer Science Week and Policy Organization References

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  1. Computer Science Education Week


  2. Accessibility official statements of SIGCSE


  3. US ACM Policy on Web Accessibility

    with many useful links


  4. Dept. of Justice Office of Civil Rights on Web Accessibility in Higher Education


  5. Computing Research News on Accessibility Research (Ladner)


  6. ACM Special Interest group on Computing accessibility

Computer Science Education and Accessibility References

  1. ‘Accessibility First Approach to Teaching Web Design Hamilton College


  2. Web Design with Universal Usability (Schneiderman)


  3. Academia.edu people with speciality accessibility


  4. Web Education Survey


  5. Diversity Through Accessibility blog


  6. Improving Web Accessibility through Service Learning Partnerships


  7. Integrating usability and Accessibility in Information Systems Assurance


  8. Equal Access, Universal Design of Computing Departments


  9. AccessMonkey project at U. Washington


  10. An Accessibility Report Card for World Known Universities


  11. Introducing Accessibility in Internet Computing


  12. WebAnywhere reader from U. Washington


  13. Broadening Participation NSF


  14. Visually Impaired Students get a boose in Computing (RIT)


  15. Imagine IT Project at Rochester Institute of Technology
Service Organizations within Academia
References

  1. WebAIM on University Accessibility Policies


  2. Web Accessibility Center at The Ohio State University


  3. Designing More Accessible Websites — TRACE Center U. Wisconsin


  4. Best HTML Practices from ICTA Illinois Center for Web Accessibility


  5. Cultivating and Maintaining Accessibility Expertise in Higher Education


  6. Access IT National Center at U. Washington


  7. A Checklist for Making Computing Departments Inclusive, DOIT at U. Washington


  8. Distance Learning Accessibility Evaluation


  9. U. Texas Accessibility Center (RIP)


  10. Disability 411 Podcast for Disability Professionals

Services and Products for Visually Impaired


  1. Bookshare.org
    60,000+ digital talking books scanned by volunteers or contributed by publishers, available to all USA Special Ed students


  2. TextAloud reader and mp3 converter

    also source for commercial synthetic voices and a good newsletter on text to speech

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    Free, open source, international screen reader NVDA (non-visual desktop access)


  3. audio-driven PDA, RSS, newspaper and book reader
    from Levelstar.com

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  4. Disability.gov
  5. American Federation for Blind, Access World newsletter and product reviews

  6. American Council for Blind

  7. National Federation for Blind
  8. Access World Product reviews


    DAISY internationalism consortium on digital talking books standard

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Podcasts on Assistive Tech and Persons with Disabilities


  1. Blind Cool Tech amateur product reviews

  2. Accessible World Tech Training

  3. ACB Radio news, demo, interviews


  4. WebAxe Podcast on Practical Accessibility

Notes and References on the ‘Curb Cuts’ principle

  1. ‘Universal Design’ paradigm (from Wikipedia) integrates concepts from physical, architectural, and information design.

  2. Detailed principles (from NCSU design center) include equitable use, flexibility, simplicity, intuitiveness, tolerance for error, low physical effort,…

  3. A chronology of inventions for electronic curb cuts illustrates how hearing, seeing, and learning disabilities have influenced the modern communications world.

  4. The ‘curb cut’ symbolism is widely used in the accessibility world, e.g. ‘curbcuts.net’, an accessibility consultancy

    . The site kindly provides a guide to concrete curb cuts


  5. Background on accessibility in the context of “curb cuts”     covers the essential role of considering the full range of human abilities in design.

  6. Analysis of the “curb cut” metaphor in computing suggests many problems in its usage.

Relevant ‘As Your World Changes’ Posts


  1. AYWC ‘Using Things That Talk’ demonstration presentation


  2. AYWC Literacy Lost and Found (charts, reading)

  3. AYWC Amazon Kindle and accessibility: what a mess!


  4. AYWC stumbling around .gov websites: the good, bad, and goofy


  5. AYWC Are missing, muddled use cases the cause of inaccessibility?


  6. AYWC Images and their surrogates — the ALT tag


  7. AYWC Let’s all use our headings

Comments, Corrections, Complaint?

Please add your comments below and I’ll moderate asap.
Yes, I know there are lots of typos but I’m tired of listening to myself, will proof-listen again later.
Longer comments to slger123@gamail.com. Join in the Twitter discussion of #accessibility by following me as slger123.


Thanks for listening.

Author: slger

Susan L. Gerhart (slger) is a retired computer scientist. Her professional specialities included software engineering research, technology transfer management, and computer science education, see SLGer's Research Autobiography. Susan is active in a lifelong learning institute (OLLI) at Yavapai College in Prescott Arizona. She has facilitated courses on podcasts, Twitter, the Singularity, and climate fiction. "As Your World Changes" blog describes her journey with vision loss into the spectacular world of assistive technology and the frustrating practices of accessibility. She writes with the NVDA screen reader, reads books from Bookshare on a BookSense, and listens to podcasts on an iPhone. slger123 on Twitter records her favorite articles and occasional comments on life and politics. Creative writing courses led her to undertake "A Chip On Her Shoulder", a novel asking the questions: "how did we get into the privacy mess of modern social media?" and "Are we now just 'packets of data formerly known as people'?" Contact: slger123 at gmail.com

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