I've been reading a while but haven't written - but have a question that I hope is a correct topic for this group.
Does anyone on the list have a Human Factors Degree? If so - do you know if accessibility is being woven yet into the courses? I teach Usability and Information Architecture at a state college continuing education program. (certification programs) I have been including a full night on accessibility separately from the 2 nights of usability (which covers Human Factor Engineering concepts too) and feel that my lack of knowledge on how the courses are structured currently and where accessibility is fitting in is hurting the information I give my students. One of the things I tell my students is that I believe in the next 5 years Usability Experts and Human Factor Engineers are going to be an upcoming "hot job" with so many dif aspects. I do not know what they're really teaching in the HFE programs though and haven't been able to get any concrete info from the few programs I've tried writing to - they seem to be more interested in responding to me about whether I'm interested in their Masters Programs. Any help/links on how accessibility is impacting courses/degress like Human Facotr Engineering would be appreciated. Thanks - Susan Grossman http://www.finishingfirst.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
