Mike Shebanek, Yahoo Senior Director of Accessibility I’m very pleased to share that last night, Teach Access, an initiative to include accessibility and universal design principles in the curricula of computer scientists, designers and researchers in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, was awarded an Honorable Mention Chairman’s Award for Advancement in Accessibility (Chairman’s AAA) by the Federal Communications Commission. The Chairman’s AAA is an FCC program recog...| Yahoo Accessibility
By Larry Goldberg, Director of Accessible Media Teach Access, the industry-academia collaboration founded by Yahoo, Facebook and two dozen other industry and higher ed organizations, has been busy. We’ve been on the road spreading the word about the need to make accessible design and development fundamental to college students in computer science, design and related fields. The mission of making technology pervasively accessible starts with making sure all college students in tech-related f...| Yahoo Accessibility