NSF AccessComputing sponsored a pre-symposium affiliated event at the 2025 SIGCSE Technical Symposium (TS) in Pittsburgh, PA, titled “Accessibility and Disability in CS Education” on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. The all-day event attracted 65 educators and students from around the world.
The program included 13 presentations on varying topics, such as including accessibility in the computer science (CS) curriculum, teaching inclusively, engaging disabled students in research, and policies that impact the accessibility of CS curricula. Speakers came from a wide variety of schools and organizations:
- Elissa Hozore, from Code in the Schools
- Justin Cannady, from Northern Lights Collaborative for Computing Education
- Veronica Pimenova, from Carnegie Mellon University
- Michel Zarn, from Paris Dauphine University and KarmicSoft
- Andreas Stefik from the University of Nevada Las Vegas
- Sofia De Jesus from Carnegie Mellon University
- Juno Bartsch from Virginia Tech
- Frank Elavsky from Carnegie Mellon University
- Maya Cakmak from University of Washington
- Jixiang Fan from Virginia Tech
- Kevin Lin from University of Washington
Amy Ko, a NSF AccessComputing leader, led a larger discussion on how the new administration's policies affect accessibility efforts in CS education. The session ended with smaller group discussions on all the topics brought up that day.