ICSE 2024
Fri 12 - Sun 21 April 2024 Lisbon, Portugal
Thu 18 Apr 2024 14:30 - 14:45 at Glicínia Quartin - Requirements 1 Chair(s): Liliana Pasquale

Despite recent initiatives aimed at improving accessibility, the field of digital accessibility remains markedly behind contemporary advancements in the software industry as a large number of real world software and web applications continue to fall short of accessibility requirements. A persisting skills deficit within the existing technology workforce has been an enduring impediment, hindering organizations from delivering truly accessible software products. This, in turn, elevates the risk of isolating and excluding a substantial portion of potential users. In this paper, we report lessons learned from a training program for teaching digital accessibility using the Communities of Practice (CoP) framework to industry professionals. We recruited 66 participants from a large multi-national software company and assigned them to two groups: one participating in a CoP and the other using self-paced learning. We report experiences from designing the training program, conducting the actual training, and assessing the efficiency of the two approaches. Based on these findings, we provide recommendations for practitioners in Learning and Development teams and educators in designing accessibility courses for industry professionals.

Thu 18 Apr

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14:00 - 15:30
14:00
15m
Talk
ReFAIR: Toward a Context-Aware Recommender for Fairness Requirements Engineering
Research Track
Carmine Ferrara University of Salerno, Francesco Casillo Università di Salerno, Carmine Gravino University of Salerno, Andrea De Lucia University of Salerno, Fabio Palomba University of Salerno
Pre-print
14:15
15m
Talk
Analyzing and Debugging Normative Requirements via Satisfiability CheckingACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
Research Track
Nick Feng University of Toronto, Lina Marsso University of Toronto, Sinem Getir Yaman University of York, UK, Yesugen Baatartogtokh Smith College, Reem Ayad University of Toronto, Victória Oldemburgo de Mello University of Toronto, Beverley Townsend University of York, Isobel Standen University of York, Ioannis Stefanakos University of York, Calum Imrie University of York, Genaína Nunes Rodrigues University of Brasília, Ana Cavalcanti University of York, Radu Calinescu University of York, UK, Marsha Chechik University of Toronto
14:30
15m
Talk
Teaching Digital Accessibility to Industry Professionals using the Community of Practice framework: An Experience Report
Software Engineering Education and Training
Parthasarathy PD BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Swaroop Joshi BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
14:45
15m
Talk
An Experience Report on Using Video-Creation Tasks in Requirements-Engineering Education
Software Engineering Education and Training
Richard May Harz University Wernigerode, Germany, Johanna Daher Harz University Wernigerode, Germany, Jacob Krüger Eindhoven University of Technology, Thomas Leich Harz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
15:00
15m
Talk
Exploring the Need of Accessibility Education in the Software Industry: Insights from a Survey of Software Professionals in India
Software Engineering Education and Training
Parthasarathy PD BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus, Swaroop Joshi BITS Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus
15:15
7m
Talk
ValidGen: A Tool for Automatic Generation of Validation Scripts to Support Rapid Requirements Validation
Demonstrations
Hongyue Pan BeiHang Uviversity, Yilong Yang Beihang University