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Broadening participation by teaching accessibility

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Strategies for incorporating accessibility into computing education.

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    cover image Communications of the ACM
    Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 10
    October 2021
    89 pages
    ISSN:0001-0782
    EISSN:1557-7317
    DOI:10.1145/3487943
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    • (2024)Teaching Digital Accessibility in Computing Education: Views of Educators in IndiaProceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research - Volume 110.1145/3632620.3671122(222-232)Online publication date: 12-Aug-2024
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