In 2015, Brazil enacted Law No. 13,146 (Statute of Persons with Disabilities), establishing a
new range of rights for people with disabilities. Among the changes made was the inclusion …

Context: Model-driven approaches are increasingly used in different domains, such as
education, finance and app development, in order to involve non-developers in the software …

Creative activities play an essential role in everyday life. Recently, there has been
increasing interest in the accessibility community to support blind and low vision (BLV) …

Sighted programmers often rely on visual cues (eg, syntax coloring, keyword highlighting,
code formatting) to perform common coding activities in text-based languages (eg, Python) …

Collaborative coding environments foster learning, social skills, computational thinking
training, and supportive relationships. In the context of inclusive education, these …

BLVRUN is a command line shell script designed to offer developers within the BLV
community a succinct and insightful overview of traceback errors. Its primary function …

Parsons problems are drag-and-drop computer programming puzzles that require learners
to place code blocks in the correct order and sometimes indentation. Introductory computer …

COVID-19 accelerated the trend toward remote software development, increasing the need
for tightly-coupled synchronous collaboration. Existing tools and practices impose high …

The visual and mouse-centric nature of block-based programming environments generally
make them inaccessible and challenging to use by users with visual impairments who rely …

Blind and low-vision (BLV) youth have been excluded from technology-mediated learning in
school for two decades due to the systemic inaccessibility of K-12 instructional technologies …