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Accessibility: understanding attitudes of CS students

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ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility archive
Proceedings of the 11th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility table of contents

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

POSTER SESSION: Posters and system demonstrations table of contents

Pages 219-220

Year of Publication: 2009

ISBN:978-1-60558-558-1

Authors

G. M. Poor	Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA
Laura M. Leventhal	Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA
Julie Barnes	Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA
Duke R. Hutchings	Elon University, Elon, NC, USA

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SIGACCESS: ACM Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Accessibility and usability have become increasingly important in design and development of technology. This poster briefly reviews how accessibility concepts may be included in computer science courses as students are educated to become practitioners. In a usability engineering course, the authors included a group development project that included an accessibility component. They conducted a survey of student attitudes toward these issues at the start and end of the course. Results of the survey indicate that students' awareness of issues related to usability and accessibility are increased after taking the course and completing the project. In particular, students showed a significant increase in their rating of importance for the item "broadening the range of technology users". The authors also performed a factor analysis of the survey responses and determined that items fell into three factors, one of which was concerned with accessibility and usability.

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