ABSTRACT
Located in the Shenandoah Valley within easy driving distance to Washington,
DC, James Madison University draws both graduates and undergraduates,
many of whom will seek employment in the Washington, DC, and northern
Virginia area. One of my primary teaching responsibilities is to teach web
design courses-primarily for students who aspire to be web designers or web
project managers. The majority of these students come with backgrounds in
literature, communication, business, health science, and computer science;
therefore, they have little training in design or in thinking about accessibility
issues on the web. In order to help them overcome this deficiency, I learned
some time ago that I needed to include a significant concentration on design
and accessibility, especially as they relate one to another. Now I expect effective
accessibility design as a part of all the projects and so I teach it throughout
every project stage.
