Graduate School and Students with Disabilities
Graduate students with disabilities, working with faculty and disability services, can have successful grad school experiences, complete their degrees, and enter rewarding careers.
AccessComputing
Quorum: An Accessible Programming Language (Full Version)
Learn about the Quorum programming language, which is designed to be accessible to all students, including those who are blind.
AccessComputing News - October 2017
Below are the articles of the AccessComputing News - October 2017 newsletter. These articles can also be seen all on one page at the Full Newsletter option.
Accessibility for Everyone (Textbook)
Introduction to Accessible Web Development
How does designing for users with and without disabilities shape student design thinking?
How do student designers regard disability? How does designing for both users who are disabled and non-disabled encourage students to think about accessibility throughout the design process? These are the questions researchers at the University of Washington (UW) investigated via a design course study.
30 Web Accessibility Tips
These web accessibility tips can be used by web designers, developers, or content authors to guide them in creating or deploying web-based resources that are fully accessible to all users. This list is not intended to replace or map to formal standards such as the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C’s) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Have suggestions for how this list can be improved? Please send your ideas to accesscomp@uw.edu.
How can faculty be encouraged to include accessibility topics in computing curriculum?
A variety of strategies to encourage faculty to include accessibility in the computing curriculum have been reported by students, faculty, administrators and other stakeholders.
UW Accessibility Capstone Course: A Promising Practice in Teaching Accessibility
One way to integrate information about accessibility in the computing curriculum is to teach a capstone course focused on the topic, as is done at the University of Washington (UW). The UW Accessibility Capstone Course provides students with
What are challenges to increasing the participation of students with disabilities in computing?
Many challenges to increasing the participation of students with disabilities in computing have been reported by faculty, staff, students and other stakeholders.