Engineering Accessible Software

Catalog description

This course introduces software accessibility principles, which are relevant to the Software Engineering approach of software development. The course will survey assistive technologies, accessibility standards and their applications to new and existing software, and how to incorporate accessibility principles at the various phases of the software development life cycle. Students will deliver software based on software engineering approach to users with different abilities e.g. people with visual impairments, and older users. Other topics include mobile accessibility, accessibility testing, validation technologies, and tools.