technology-implementation.md

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title: Accessibility Implementation 
description: Apply accessibility principals to a thing
revised: July 26, 2024

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Overview

The goal of this homework is to make something more accessible. Specifically, you should create a more accessible version of a thing (website, visualization, user interface, AR/VR, etc) that you've already made.

Learning Goals / Competencies

This homework will contribute to your competency grade on

• Accessible Document Creation
• Familiarity with a Range of Accessibility Technologies
• Image Description
• Web/App Accessibility Rules

It may contribute to other competencies depending on how you approach it.

Turnin

Submit your writeup following the template

Details

To complete this assignment, please do the following

1. Select a specific interface or web app that you will make more accessible

You should identify a technology you have implemented for general use (i.e. not an accessibility technology). Ideally this should be an interactive technology (some kind of user interface, app, etc). If you have no such thing, you can ask to approve using a website or other static content that you have generated as an alternative.

{% details Possible examples (this list is still unders construction) %}

• A class assignment that has an interface (web, mobile or other). If you've built a mobile app for 340, built a website for 154, or taken 331 (such as the campus map website) these are all things you could use.
• A web or mobile app you built yourself
• A profile of yourself on linked in, tiktok, or any other site where you've posted content.
• Your personal website (even if it's hosted somewhere else like wordpress)
• An interface wrapped around some machine learning program
• An educational game for young children
• Tools for learning programming
• A visualization
• A password or CAPTCHA interface
• VR/AR: A game or game control interface. {% enddetails %}

Also be clear about what task you want to accomplish. If you don't have any interactive application that you can do this with you can use a static website or content, however in this case you need to get our approval by submitting the content you will focus on to us ahead of time.

2. Select an accessibility technology and test your app with it

Record the following information in your reflection

• What technology and task you were testing (include a screen shot)
• Which accessibility technology did you use and which disability you focused on
• Test out your app with that accessibility aid and identify any problems with completing that task. Fill out at least 2 UARs describing different problems you found and summarize your findings

3. Fix the problem

Once you have identified problems, it is time to fix them. The expectations here will depend partly on the details of the task you select (which must be instructor approved) but it needs to include at least two different areas of POUR (i.e. address issues with both percievability and operability) or otherwise demonstrate that you have not done something overly simple.

• Add a description of what you fixed to your summary
• Add a paragraph describing something you learned from this assignment to your summary

4. Present it to us

We will announce/decide closer to this assignment whether this should be done as a live demo, in section, or by video depending on factors like class size. Regardles of how you present, your presentation will need to demonstrate the problems you found and the fix you created. This should include a "before & after" style presentation, where you use the technology with the accessibility technology you used to test and improve the experience, before and after the fix, demonstrating what did not work and how it improved.