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Accessibility first!: a new approach to web design

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SIGCSE '06: Proceedings of the 37th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 270 - 274

https://doi.org/10.1145/1121341.1121426

Published: 03 March 2006 Publication History

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This paper proposes an accessibility first pedogogy for web design, in which the course is organized around the requirement of implementing web pages accessible to visually impaired computer users. This approach and its advantages are discussed in detail.

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