Using screen readers to reinforce web accessibility education

ITiCSE 2007: 12th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education - Inclusive Education in Computer Science

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 82-86

  Freire, André Pimenta ^a   Fortes, Renata P M ^a   Paiva, Debora M B ^b   Turine, Marcelo A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Assistive technology; Education; Web accessibility

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY AIDS FOR BLIND PERSONS; STUDENTS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLIND USERS; SHORT INTRODUCTORY COURSES; WEB ACCESSIBILITY;

COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION;

EID: 34548089365     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1268784.1268810     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (18)

1. C. Benavidez, J. L. Fuertes, E. Gutierrez, and L. Martinez. Teaching web accessibility with "contramano" and hera. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, pages 341-348, Linz, Austria, 2006. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
2. R. F. Cohen, A. V. Fairley, D. Gerry, and G. R. Lima. Accessibility in introductory computer science. In SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, pages 17-21, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM Press.
3. R. P. M. Fortes, S. M. A. Lara, A. P. Freire, and L. T. E. Pansanato. Short Courses of Webmedia 2005, volume 1, chapter 7 - Accessibility in the Project of Web Applications, pages 197-226. FuMARC Editora, Belo Horizonte-MG, 1 edition, December 2005. (in Portuguese).
4. R. P. M. Fortes, L. T. E. Pansanato, S. M. A. Lara, and A. P. Freire. Short Courses of the XVI Brazilian Symposium on Computers and Education, volume 1, chapter 2- Universal Access to Educational Content in Web Applications, pages 21-42. Editar Editora Associada, Juiz de Fora-MG, 1 edition, November 2005. (in Portuguese).
5. A. P. Freire and R. P. de Mattos Fortes. Automatic accessibility evaluation of dynamic web pages generated through xslt. In W4A '05: Proceedings of the 2005 International Cross-Disciplinary Workshop on Web Accessibility (W4A), pages 81-84, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM Press.
6. E. Gellenbeck. Integrating accessibility into the computer science curriculum. J. Comput. Small Coll., 21(1):267-273, 2005.
7. S. M. Harrison. Opening the eyes of those who can see to the world of those who can't: a case study. In SIGCSE '05: Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, pages 22-26, New York, NY, USA, 2005. ACM Press.
8. Intervox. Dosvox, 2006. Available online at http://intervox.nce.ufrj.br/ doxvox. Accessed January/2007.
9. S. Ludi. Access for everyone: introducing accessibility issues to students in internet programming courses. In 32nd Annual Conference on Frontiers in Education, 2002. FIE 2002, volume 3, pages 1-9. IEEE CS Press, 2002.
10. K. Miesenberger and D. Ortner. Raising the expertise of web designers through training - the experience of bfwd - accessible web design (barrierefreies webdesign) in austria. In Proceedings of Computers Helping People with Special Needs, pages 253-257, Linz, Austria, 2006. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
11. D. Ortner, M. Batuscaronicacute, and K. Miesenberger. Postgraduate course on accessible web design. In Proceedings of Computers Helping People with Special Needs, pages 183-186, Linz, Austria, 2004. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg.
12. B. J. Rosmaita. Accessibility first!: a new approach to web design. In SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, pages 270-274, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM Press.
13. B. J. Rosmaita, K. Deibel, R. F. Cohen, and M. A. L. Egan. Accessibility and computer science education. In SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education, pages 63-64, New York, NY, USA, 2006. ACM Press.
14. B. Sierkowski. Achieving web accessibility. In SIGUCCS '02: Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services, pages 288-291. ACM Press, 2002.
15. J. Thatcher, P. Bohman, M. Burks, S. L. Henry, B. Regan, S. Swierenga, and M. Urban. Constructing Accessible Web Sites. Glasshaus, 2002.
16. U.S. Government. Section 508, 2006. Available online at http://www.section508.gov. Accessed October/2006.
17. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Web Content Acessibility Guidelines 1.0, 1999. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/. Accessed December/2005.
18. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Web Content Acessibility Guidelines 2.0 - Working Draft, 2006. Available at http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/. Accessed November/2006.