Including Accessibility in Your Computer Science Course
Most software in the world is not accessible to people with disabilities, in part because most people who create software do not know how to make it accessible. Using the new free online book “Teaching Accessible Computing”, participants in this special session will learn how they can incorporate accessibility topics into their favorite CS courses, like introductory programming, data structures, or artificial intelligence courses. The editors of the book will lead the special session, and several authors of the book’s 17 chapters will talk about their chapters and lead topic groups to go into more depth about how they incorporated accessibility into their CS courses. Participants will leave this session with increased enthusiasm and concrete resources to support teaching accessibility in their CS topic courses, establishing connections to the broader community of CS educators and researchers interested in teaching accessibility.