The Teach Access Tutorial provides best practices for making accessible mobile and web apps. Via hands-on exercises and reference guides, tutorial users can learn about aspects of writing accessible code like headings, image tags, keyboard navigation and ARIA standards as well as design principles for accessibility related to color contrast, text size, and conveying meaning through color.
This CBI covered collaboration across University of Washington departments; exploring legal obligations for creating and using accessible IT; ensuring the accessibility of websites, documents, and learning management systems; captioning videos, developing accessible online learning courses, promoting universal design, and engaging IT vendors in accessibility improvements.
The Washington IT Accessibility in Higher Education CBI provided a forum for sharing interventions and strategies across Washington State that promote accessibility of IT at colleges and universities.
Although disability, accessibility, and universal design are not taught in every engineering department, there are a variety of courses across the country that address these topics. Examples include:
InftyReader is optical character recognition (OCR) software that recognizes standard text, but also scientific figures and mathematics symbols. After scanning a document, it can output the content in a variety of digital formats, including LaTeX, MathML, XHTML, HRTeX, IML and Microsoft Word. Assistive technology can then be used to provide speech, Braille, or enlarged text access.
The IT Accessibility in Higher Education CBI provided a forum for sharing interventions and strategies that promote accessibility of IT at colleges and universities.
Webmasters make their websites accessible to individuals with disabilities.
This forum compared recruitment and access challenges, shared successful practices, and developed collaborations to help increase the capacity of institutions to serve students with disabilities in computing and IT fields.