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
   

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