Systems for Scaling Accessibility Efforts in Large Computing Courses

About this website

This website accompanies our SIGCSE 2026 experience report:

Ritesh Kanchi, Miya Natsuhara, and Matt X. Wang. 2026. Systems for Scaling Accessibility Efforts in Large Computing Courses. In Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V.1 (SIGCSE TS 2026), February 18–21, 2026, St. Louis, MO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3770762.3772648

This website contains several of the training materials and resources we developed, including:

• Accessibility Issue Classification Templates
• Should it alt text? Activity
• Spot & Improve Activity
• Fix the Deck Activity

Acknowledgments

We thank the UW CSE 12X introductory programming instructors, teaching assistants, and students. We are especially grateful to Jennifer Mankoff, Brianna Wimer, Ather Sharif, Venkatesh Potluri, Kelly Avery Mack, Shuxu Huffman, Ruth Anderson, Gaby de Jongh, Sean Mealin, Justin Hsia, Michael Ball, and Richard E. Ladner, whose input shaped our trainings, tooling, and writing. This work was supported in part by the NSF BPC Alliance AccessComputing (2137312) and the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering.

Citing these materials

If you use any of the materials in this repository or reference our paper, please use the following BibTeX entry.

@inproceedings{systemsforscalingaccessibility,
  author       = {Kanchi, Ritesh and Natsuhara, Miya and Wang, Matt},
  title        = {Systems for Scaling Accessibility Efforts in Large Computing Courses},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of The Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’26)},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {10.1145/3770762.3772648},
  publisher    = {ACM},
  location     = {St. Louis, MO, USA},
  numpages     = {7},
  series       = {SIGCSE 2026}
}

Contact

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the first author Ritesh Kanchi directly.