Educating for Accessibility: Insights into Knowledge Gaps and Practical Challenges in Software Engineering

These challenges also affect students and early-career professionals in HCI, who often encounter accessibility only briefly during their studies.

“These challenges also affect students and early-career professionals in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), who often encounter accessibility only briefly during their studies [17, 56, 59].”

Many HCI and design students encounter accessibility only superficially.

“Many HCI and design students encounter accessibility only superficially [17, 56, 59].”

Many students lack structured opportunities to work with accessibility requirements in applied contexts, and their practical skills in this area are limited despite a generally high awareness of its importance.

“Consequently, many students lack structured opportunities to work with accessibility requirements in applied contexts, and studies show that their practical skills in this area are limited despite a generally high awareness of its importance [56].”

Accessibility is still underrepresented in many curricula, and even when it is addressed, it is rarely taught in an applied, example-based way.

“Accessibility is still underrepresented in many curricula, and even when it is addressed, it is rarely taught in an applied, example-based way [17, 38, 40, 42, 48, 52, 56].”

Accessibility is often underrepresented in design education.

“Regarding students' prior knowledge, our findings support research showing that accessibility is often underrepresented in design education [17, 36, 38, 40, 42, 48, 52, 56].”