Parsons problems have become a mainstay of computer science education. They are heavily used among students, especially in K-12 and provide a small puzzle-like experience for students to practice their skills. Today, while prior work has explored complex issues with accessibility and block languages in general, the 2024 changes to accessibility regulations by the U.S. Department of Justice includes new rules around mobile platforms. These rules are ill-defined and in need of evaluation. In this work, we make several contributions. First, we conducted an evaluation of existing blocks with respect to their regulatory compliance and discuss a new blocks technology that we developed that meets these new mobile guidelines. Second, we conducted three empirical studies using Parsons problems to evaluate the usability of the technology with teachers of the visually impaired (n = 32), high-school students with diverse disabilities (n = 28), and high-school students with blindness or low vision (n = 13).
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13:40 - 15:00 | From Minor to Major Accessibility in ComputingPapers at Meeting Room 101 Chair(s): Tawfiq Salem Purdue University | ||
13:40 20mTalk | Earning a CS Minor: A Not-So-Minor Feat. A Survey of Accessibility and Structure of 120 Computer Science Minors Papers Albert Lionelle Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Anya Amin Center for Inclusive Computing, Northeastern University, Megan Giordano Northeastern University, Center for Inclusive Computing, Catherine Gill Northeastern University | ||
14:00 20mTalk | Toward Accessible Parsons Problems on Mobile Platforms Papers Timothy Kluthe University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Gabriel Contreras University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Willliam Allee University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Wilfredo Robinson Saint Louis University, Namrata Roy Saint Louis University, Hannah Williams University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Alex Hoffman Belmont University, Derrick Smith Auburn University at Montgomery, Brianna Blaser University of Washington, Jenna Gorlewicz Saint Louis University, Nicholas Giudice University of Maine, Andreas Stefik University of Nevada at Las Vegas, USA | ||
14:20 20mTalk | Virtual Reality-Based, Gamified Accessibility Education: An Experience ReportGlobal Papers Wajdi Aljedaani Saud Data & Artifical Intelligent Authority, Parthasarathy PD BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Xin Tong Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Kyrie Zhixuan Zhou University of Texas at San Antonio | ||