What is it about?
Our 5-year research study "Teaching Accessibility in the Digital Skill Set" explores the teaching and learning of digital accessibility. Our research examines how digital accessibility is taught in different places and at different levels. We want to provide educators with an evidence base to advance teaching practice, and ensure better learning outcomes.
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Why is it important?
There is a known shortage of accessibility skills in the digital workforce, and an urgent need to build understanding and capacity so that digital products, tools and services meet the needs of disabled people. This paper describes our progress, our rationale and a research design that helps build educational community understanding through the data collection process. We discuss how these pedagogic research methods can contribute to computing education practice, and reflect on key issues and challenges for digital accessibility as a field.
Perspectives
In digital accessibility education research, the major focus to date has been on what to teach and curricula. We want to highlight accessibility teaching in practice, to show how accessibility can be effectively taught, capturing a range of approaches, and contexts. We interrelate workplace and higher education teaching to help build this field and draw out new pedagogic knowledge. As education researchers, we're also keen to demonstrate the value of pedagogical research approaches and the value these bring for Computer Science Education and reflexive practice.
Sarah Lewthwaite
University of Southampton
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This page is a summary of: Researching Pedagogy in Digital Accessibility Education, ACM SIGACCESS Accessibility and Computing, October 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3582298.3582300.
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