Overview
View educational IBM courses and presentations addressing accessibility.
Accessibility programming techniques Web-based lecture
Because accessibility is a relatively new area in computer science, this Web-based lecture for professors and instructors explains what "accessibility" means to IT professionals. It provides some HTML coding techniques for making Web pages accessible. You may want to consider incorporating parts or all of it into one of your lectures, or suggest that your students review it on their own.
Presentations
The IBM Linux Accessibility Project: Opening doors to an Enterprise Accessible Desktop presentation (presented at CSUN 2006)
JavaScript and AJAX Accessibility presentation (presented at CSUN 2006)
Presented by Shannon Rapuano from the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center and Don Barrett from Department of Education as part of the best practices demonstrations at Interagency Disability Education Awareness Showcase (IDEAS) 2003.
Presented at Lotusphere 2003 by Shannon Rapuano, IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center, CLP Lotus Notes Application Developer.
Courses currently offered
Developing accessible GUIs with Swing
This tutorial provides in-depth techniques for addressing the key accessibility requirements of your Java GUI applications using the Swing toolkit.
Level: Intermediate
Length of tutorial: under 2 hours
