30 April 2007

Some 2,000 universities are to be informed of the importance of accessibility in an IBM project.

IBM's Accessibility Common Courseware Exchange for Software Studies (ACCESS), which aims to help educational establishments teach students how to design inclusive sites, will be promoted to all members of the company's Academic Initiative, reports Computing Canada.

Universities which are already on board with the scheme include the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois and the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Angel Franco, project manager of IBM's Human Ability and Accessibility Centre, commented: "In many places, very little was being taught about anything to do with human/computer interaction."

He added that a survey had uncovered that few universities were teaching issues of accessibility.

"It appeared that this was the first time it had over occurred to them to ask the question," he remarked.

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