Accessibility 101: An afternoon at the TeachAccess bootcamp
From: Bits and Behavior - 05/30/2017

The AccessComputing alliance's mission is to increase the participation of
people with disabilities in computing fields, and secondarily to increase the
access to knowledge about accessibility in computing fields.

TeachAccess is consortium of industry companies including Adobe, Microsoft,
Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, Dropbox, Intuit, LinkedIn, and a number of
universities. TeachAccess has a simple goal: produce a large number of
software developers who know a little bit about accessibility. The reason for
this goal is clear: accessible design is not only the right thing to do
ethically, but it’s often the legally required thing to do, and a clear
market differentiator.

To accomplish this goal, TeachAccess is starting to develop training
materials for higher education instructors, to help Computing and Information
Science faculty learn the basics of accessibility, which increases the odds
that they might add it to their courses. We invited TeachAccess to pilot
their materials at the University of Washington, where there are already a
ton of latent interests in accessibility, and increasingly teaching on
accessibility, as part of the Design Use Build community.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:26) at:
https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/accessibility-101-an-afternoon-at-the-teachaccess-bootcamp-ee317f426022

Links:
AccessComputing
https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing

Richard Ladner
http://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/ladner

Teach Access
http://teachaccess.org

AccessComputing Promotes Teaching Accessibility
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2968453

Design Use Build
http://dub.washington.edu