Progressive Developments in Accessibility Education

• Until recently, no formal accessibility education or training for software engineers/designers
• Limited scope of accessibility courses/training here and there
• Individual group/departmental training
• Gaining visibility and credibility at local and regional conferences (e.g., SLATE, Midwest Educause, HighEdWeb)
• Traveling to other schools in the Midwest (e.g., Purdue, MSU, UMN, Madison, Iowa)
• On-site training with software vendors (BB, Elsevier, D2L, Ex Libris, etc.)
• Higher Ed/Industry creating need for accessibility professionals (e.g., Panopto, Workday, Zoom, ServiceNow, etc.)
• Increasing demand for accessibility professionals made it easier to offer more stuctured accessibility training
• Accessibility is now becoming a special subject for Computer Science and Engineering students