<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#000000">FYI</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Elaine Short</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:elaine.short@tufts.edu">elaine.short@tufts.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM<br>Subject: New Resource: "Teaching Accessible Computing" (including Robotics + Accessibility)<br>To: <<a href="mailto:HRI-ANNOUNCEMENT@listserv.acm.org">HRI-ANNOUNCEMENT@listserv.acm.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Thank you to everyone who gave feedback on the draft of my chapter on Robotics and Accessibility! I am pleased to announce that the first edition of the full book, Teaching Accessible Computing, edited by Alannah Oleson, Amy Ko, and Richard Ladner, is now available (for free!) at:</div><div><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></div><div><span style="text-decoration:underline;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://bookish.press/tac" target="_blank">https://bookish.press/tac</a></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><u><br></u></font></div><div><div><a href="https://bookish.press/tac/Robotics" target="_blank">My chapter</a> covers the basics of robotics and accessibility and is both a primer for accessibility considerations in robotics and a resource for teaching accessibility in robotics classes. I hope that you will check it out and pass it along to others who might find it useful.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have comments, suggestions for improvement, or would like to contribute a chapter to a future edition, you can reach out to me or to the editors, or use the form linked in the table of contents. More details from the editors, including links to social media announcements, are linked below.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Elaine</div><div><br></div><div>More from the editors:<br></div><div><blockquote dir="ltr" class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt"></blockquote></blockquote><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif">We’re proud to announce the 1st edition of Teaching Accessible Computing, a community-sourced book to help computing educators integrate accessibility topics into their courses: </span><br><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you’re on social media, you can also share our posts on<span> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/amyjko/status/1767281999461654576?s=20" target="_blank">Twitter</a><span> </span>and<span> </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ajko_were-proud-to-announce-the-1st-edition-of-activity-7173047926548578304-2pyK/" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>. <br></span></font><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://bookish.press/tac__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!gWHBUJRbA3QKiwagic1F86LESH4vzbiTVo7UyT1z7OaG3uZTM395p5rNDaCaU05JZBkxNVuIGzZdEA$" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></a><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you want to help create a digital world that<span> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">everyone</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span> </span>can use, read the first few chapters, and the chapters on topics you teach, and start integrating accessibility topics into your teaching!<br></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">This book is a living document. See the table of contents for how to submit improvements and ideas for new chapters. You can also sign up for notifications about new content and editions.</font></span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Elaine Schaertl Short<br><a href="mailto:elaine.short@tufts.edu" target="_blank">elaine.short@tufts.edu</a><br><br>Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor<br>Dept. of Computer Science<div>Dept. of Mechanical Engineering (<i>secondary appointment</i>)<br>Tufts University<br></div><div><br></div><div>♿️🏳️🌈 she/her</div><div><a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/appointments/AcZssZ3Fz0bBPRKSbqg-BjxT9KInWSs9dhzCI7wMLzA=" target="_blank">Book a short advising appointment</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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