Creativity and Curb Cuts: Experiences in Our First Offering of a Front End Development and Accessibility Focused CS Course

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

7-14-2025

Abstract

Students learn an abundance of technical skills while obtaining a computer science degree. The ability to develop meaningful front end user interfaces is often considered the domain of only ''more artistic'' CS students. However, for users to effectively engage with any piece of software, functional user interfaces are critical. Moreover, even among students who have front end skills, semantic and accessible design is all too often less considered. The first author piloted a ''Front End Development and Accessibility'' course this past Fall. This course teaches basic skills of front end with web and leverages key accessibility standards via WCAG. This experience report highlights challenges, triumphs, and takeaways from the first course offering. Three students - all with different backgrounds relating to the course content - share their experiences as part of this report as well.

Publication Title

Respect 2025 Proceedings of the 2025 Conference for Research on Equitable and Sustained Participation in Engineering Computing and Technology

ISBN

[9798400713552]

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