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It's Time to Make Software Accessible: Here's how, from OS to organization

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Stacy M. Branham,

Shahtab WahidAuthors Info & Claims

Queue, Volume 22, Issue 5

Pages 19 - 27

https://doi.org/10.1145/3704441

Published: 22 November 2024 Publication History

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The articles that constitute this special issue on accessibility show that, regardless of whether you work on the back end, front end, design, or are part of an organization's leadership, there are steps you can take to make progress. Before we get to writing software and making policy, however, there is an even more fundamental concern: the widespread misconception of the nature of disability and assistive and accessible technology. If we are going to change the status quo, we must start there.

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It's Time to Make Software Accessible: Here's how, from OS to organization
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Accessibility
    1. Accessibility design and evaluation methods
    2. Accessibility theory, concepts and paradigms
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing profession
      1. Assistive technologies
  2. User characteristics
    1. People with disabilities

Index terms have been assigned to the content through auto-classification.

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Queue Volume 22, Issue 5

Accessibility

September/October 2024

112 pages

EISSN:1542-7749

DOI:10.1145/3705868

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License.

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Association for Computing Machinery

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Published: 22 November 2024

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