Designing Born-Accessible Courses in Data Science and Visualization: Challenges and Opportunities of a Remote Curriculum Taught by Blind Instructors to Blind Students
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2024
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
While recent years have seen a growing interest in accessible visualization tools and techniques for blind people, little attention is paid to the learning opportunities and teaching strategies of data science and visualization tailored for blind individuals. Whereas the former focuses on the accessibility and usability issues of data visualization tools, the latter is concerned with the learnability of concepts and skills for data science and visualization. In this paper, we present novel approaches to teaching data science and visualization to blind students in an online setting. Taught by blind instructors, nine blind learners having a wide range of professional backgrounds participated in a two-week summer course. We describe the course design, teaching strategies, and learning outcomes.We also discuss the challenges and opportunities of teaching data science and visualization to blind students. Our work contributes to the growing body of knowledge on accessible data science and visualization education, and provides insights into the design of online courses for blind students.
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CCS Concepts: Applied computing → Education
@inproceedings{10.2312:eved.20241053,
booktitle = {EuroVis 2024 - Education Papers},
editor = {Firat, Elif E. and Laramee, Robert S. and Andersen, Nicklas Sindelv},
title = {{Designing Born-Accessible Courses in Data Science and Visualization: Challenges and Opportunities of a Remote Curriculum Taught by Blind Instructors to Blind Students}},
author = {Seo, JooYoung and O'Modhrain, Sile and Xia, Yilin and Kamath, Sanchita and Lee, Bongshin and Coughlan, James M.},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-257-8},
DOI = {10.2312/eved.20241053}
}