TY - GEN
T1 - Using modules to teach accessibility in a user-centered design course
AU - Lazar, Amanda
AU - Lazar, Jonathan
AU - Pradhan, Alisha
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/10/24
Y1 - 2019/10/24
N2 - Courses in user-centered design, where students learn about centering design on the needs of individuals, is one natural point in which accessibility content can be injected into the curriculum. We describe the approach we have taken with sections in the undergraduate User-Centered Design Course at the University of Maryland, College Park. We initially introduced disability and accessibility in four modules: 1) websites and design portfolios, 2) introduction to understanding user needs, 3) prototyping, and 4) UX evaluation. We present a description of this content that was taught as an extended version in one Fall 2018 section and as an abbreviated version in all sections in Spring 2019. Survey results indicate that students' understanding of accessibility and assistive technology increased with the introduction of these modules.
AB - Courses in user-centered design, where students learn about centering design on the needs of individuals, is one natural point in which accessibility content can be injected into the curriculum. We describe the approach we have taken with sections in the undergraduate User-Centered Design Course at the University of Maryland, College Park. We initially introduced disability and accessibility in four modules: 1) websites and design portfolios, 2) introduction to understanding user needs, 3) prototyping, and 4) UX evaluation. We present a description of this content that was taught as an extended version in one Fall 2018 section and as an abbreviated version in all sections in Spring 2019. Survey results indicate that students' understanding of accessibility and assistive technology increased with the introduction of these modules.
KW - Course design
KW - Curricula
KW - User Centered Design
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U2 - 10.1145/3308561.3354632
DO - 10.1145/3308561.3354632
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85074944852
T3 - ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
SP - 554
EP - 556
BT - ASSETS 2019 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, ASSETS 2019
Y2 - 28 October 2019 through 30 October 2019
ER -