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Who Teaches Accessibility? A Survey of U.S. Computing Faculty (dl.acm.org)

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This journal article explores computer science professors teaching accessibility. Only half of the 175 institutions surveyed had a professor teaching an accessibility course. The researchers also surveyed 1,857 computer science professors and found that over 10% reported not being knowledgeable about accessibility and over 60% reported some knowledge about accessibility. This highlights a need to educate professors about digital accessibility. #accessibility

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

JFC, speaking of accessibility, why is this a pdf?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, most academic journals still publish only PDFs. I couldn't find an HTML version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Oh I am aware, I was just venting and pointing out the irony. The academic sector has always lagged behind tech-wise, but its insistence on publishing in a format designed for print rather than one for display is particularly embarrassing. As you can imagine, the PDF is not accessible at all; it looks like SIGCSE didn't even bother auto-tagging it. They're a global org that claims to be passionate about the science behind education, but it's incredibly difficult to teach others if they're unable to access your content. The situation just really sucks all around.