Interactive Games for Teaching Accessible Design
Associate Professor Rachel Adler will present "Interactive Games for Teaching Accessible Design" at the College of Education's Center for Research and Innovation in Technology-Enhanced Learning.
Abstract: More than one billion people worldwide live with a disability, yet few websites are fully accessible. Despite the importance of accessibility, many students receive little formal training in designing technologies that are usable by people with disabilities. This talk presents interactive learning games for introducing accessible design in university and K–12 settings. I will discuss findings from studies involving hundreds of university students, including a recent longitudinal study, and highlight results from K–12 implementations, with a particular focus on a middle school summer camp. The talk concludes with future directions for this work.
Speaker: Rachel F. Adler is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are in human-computer interaction, accessibility, and computing education. Some of her recent projects include co-designing a mobile health app to empower cancer survivors with disabilities, co-designing a mobile health peer navigator intervention for people newly diagnosed with disabilities, and creating accessibility games to teach both university and K-12 students about accessible design.
Accessibility: CART captioning will be provided. Screen-reader accessible slides go up on the event webpage before the talk, and a transcript and recording will be posted afterward. The Education Building has ADA parking, elevators, and restrooms, along with a lactation room, a meditation and prayer room, and all-gender restrooms. Please visit the digital access map for more details.
. If you have disability-related questions or need accommodations to take part, please contact Logan Lauren. Early requests are strongly encouraged so there is enough time to meet your access needs.
This event is sponsored by Center for Research and Innovation in Technology-Enhanced Learning