Teaching accessibility is an essential step towards supporting the integration of accessibility principles in software and other technologies, especially as ADA Title II regulations increase awareness around educational accessibility considerations.While existing literature captures the prevalence of accessibility in computing curriculums, understanding how accessibility can be taught across different disciplines is critical to effective accessibility education.This interdisciplinary workshop invites researchers and educators to discuss approaches to teaching accessibility in different disciplines, especially with respect to Title II compliance.Through sharing experiences and lessons learned, this workshop consolidates accessibility education methods while analyzing the role of teaching accessibility in developing accessible courses, classrooms, and technologies.

A novel wheelchair called PURE (Personalized Unique Rolling Experience) that uses hands-free (HF) torso lean-to-steer control has been developed for manual wheelchair users (mWCUs). PURE addresses limitations of current wheelchairs, such as the inability to use both hands for life experiences instead of propulsion. PURE uses a ball-based robot drivetrain to offer a compact, self-balancing, omnidirectional mobile device. A custom sensor system converts rider torso motions into direction and speed commands to control PURE, which is especially useful if a rider has minimal torso range of motion. We explored whether PURE's HF control performed as well as a traditional joystick (JS) human-robot interface and mWCUs, who may have reduced torso motion, performed as well as able-bodied users (ABUs). 10 mWCUs and 10 ABUs were trained and tested to drive PURE through courses replicating indoor environments. Each participant adjusted personal sensitivity settings for both HF and JS control. Repeated-measures MANOVA tests suggested that the effectiveness (number of collisions), efficiency (completion time), comfort (NASA TLX scores except physical demand), and robustness (index of performances) were similar for HF and JS control and between mWCUs and ABUs for all sections. These results suggest that PURE provides an effective method for controlling this new omnidirectional wheelchair by only using torso motion thus leaving both hands to be used for other tasks during propulsion.

Design instructors are integrating the use of online peer review platforms to keep pace with growing class sizes. However, these platforms typically prioritize randomized peer assignment strategies and show only the current solution to peers when writing feedback. This can result in low quality feedback in project-based design courses. We report on an experiment in which students (N=59) worked on twelve-week design projects and both wrote and received online feedback at four stages. The experiment tested a novel assignment strategy of peer mentorship, where peers were assigned to give feedback to all stages of the same project, and tested showing the context from the preceding design stage when composing feedback. The results showed that displaying the context from the preceding design stage led to feedback with higher perceived quality at the late design stages (but not at earlier stages) and feedback from mentors prompts longer responses from the feedback recipients. Our work contributes deeper empirical understanding of how assignment strategies and showing additional context affects peer feedback and provides practical guidelines for instructors to implement these methods in design courses.