diff --git a/_data/navigation.yml b/_data/navigation.yml
index 93abbacc356d0fc2c88b3ba9b612d0da63159413..713880bca62ca5970bd86d6624fae0320066d29c 100644
--- a/_data/navigation.yml
+++ b/_data/navigation.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ nav_list:
url: /docs
- title: Canvas
url: canvas
-- title: Ed
+- title: Mailing list
url: piazza
- title: Zoom
url: /docs/zoom
diff --git a/assignments/index.md b/assignments/index.md
index 72c3de646d1ab8cf50054afa747ab4b9f3b91add..9be02cf4cf0e59a6e80ce25d98fc6aa27b65dbdd 100644
--- a/assignments/index.md
+++ b/assignments/index.md
@@ -6,16 +6,13 @@ warning: draft
* TOC
{:toc}
-You can track your assignments through our [GitGrade portal]({{site.gitgrade}}). Through GitGrade you
-will accept an assignment, which will create a repository containing assignment stub code
-[on gitlab]({{site.gitlab}}). Once you have completed your assignment, commmitted your code
-to your assignment repo, you will again return to Gitgrade to turn in your assignment.
+You can track your assignments through our [Canvas portal]({{site.canvas}}). Please check submission formats for each assignment. Please contact the course staff when in doubt.
-Reminder, our class discussion board is on the class [Ed]({{site.piazza}}) should you have any
-questions or run into issue.
+Reminder, our class discussion happens using the class [mailing list]({{site.piazza}}) should you have any
+questions or run into issue, please contact the course staff.
-# Tentative assignments (just things being considered)
+# Assignments
| Exercise | Peer Eval | Reflection |
@@ -23,11 +20,11 @@ questions or run into issue.
| [HW0: reflection on motivation]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/hw0-learninggoals) | | |
| [Activity 1: AT around us]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/act1-finding-accessibility) | | |
| [HW1: improve a screen reader]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/hw1-nvda) | | |
-| Activity2: make a website usable with switch access -- spec TBD. | | |
+| Activity2: make a website usable with switch access -- spec coming soon. | | |
| [Activity3: Describe pictures and videos]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/act3-describing-video-image) | | |
-| HW2: teach machines to recognize sounds and visualize them -- spec TBD. | | |
+| HW2: teach machines to recognize sounds and visualize them -- spec coming soon. | | |
| [Final project: Make the World more accessible]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/project) | | |
Reminder: assignment and solution code must *not* be shared or made public through gitlab, or posted
-on public repositories such as Github.
+on public repositories such as Github. This is an exception for homework 1 as your code may be checked in to the NVDA repository.
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
index 8f79a404961ddf9a122cbc288c01c5cd865f0bb0..59df80fd2929ec75974c6d24fbd358820d29e669 100755
--- a/index.md
+++ b/index.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ For quick links to key things, check out the navigation bar above and the table
See [Canvas]({{site.canvas}}) for all zoom meeting links
-**Class Time:** Monday and Wednesday 6:30-7:50PM \\
+**Class Time:** Monday and Wednesday 6:30-7:50PM PDT\\
# Course staff
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ accessible to the public**.
The University and Zoom have FERPA-compliant agreements in place to protect the security and
privacy of UW Zoom accounts. Students who do not wish to be recorded should:
--Change their Zoom screen name to a school appropriate screen name that hides any personal
+
+- Change their Zoom screen name to a school appropriate screen name that hides any personal
identifying information such as their name or
UW Net ID
- Not share their computer audio or video during their Zoom sessions (please notify us first!).
diff --git a/schedule.md b/schedule.md
index 203613a357600856a3d1c102a80ce37ce20b0565..412814f788c00dac97bdd8433a4556be5059555b 100644
--- a/schedule.md
+++ b/schedule.md
@@ -89,117 +89,44 @@ TBD
{: .week}
-# Week 6: 5/3 week: Mobile Vision for Accessibility
+# Week 6: 5/3 week: activism, advocacy and power in accessibility work
-https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs231m/syllabus.html
-https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/popular-mobile-machine-learning-projects-to-help-you-start-building-48646fb6c60a
+**Readings**:
+- [How To Do Something Good In The Disability Community If You’re Not Disabled](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewpulrang/2020/12/16/how-to-do-something-good-in-the-disability-community-if-youre-not-disabled/?sh=4befcb377d7f)
+- more readings coming soon!
-**Exercise**: Pick one of these projects and build it! or Vizwiz?
+**Lecture content coming soon!**
{: .week}
-# Week 7: 5/10 week: Input
-{: .lecture} possible guest lecture: Jake Wobbrock, Information School
-: **Learning Goals** Flipping the Burden: Making Computers Accessible with Everyday Input Devices
+# Week 7: 5/10 week -- Topics and lecture content coming soon!
-: **Readings**
-- [Slide Rule](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1414471.1414487)
-- [Design space of input devices](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/97243.97263)Devices
+{: .lecture} Project Proposals
+: **Process** Refer to the proposal portion of the [project spec]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/project).
+{: .lecture} lecture content coming soon.
: **Slides** TBD
-
-{: .lecture} Guest lecture on current accessibility solutions
-: **Slides** Someone like Director, Washington Assistive Technology Alliance
-: **Readings** Pick something from here: https://ncd.gov/policy/technology
-
-{: .lecture} Project Proposals
-: **Process** TBD
-
{: .week}
-# Week 8: May 17th week: Output
+# Week 8: May 17th week -- Topic and lecture content coming soon!
-{: .lecture} Guest lecture from on captioning and/or crowdsourcing?
+{: .lecture} Lecture content coming soon
: **Slides** TBD
-
-{: .lecture} Output
-: **Learning Goals**
-Cover a range of possible topcis including
-- Braille displays
-- Alternative tactile displays
-- Vibration
-- Visual displays for the deaf
-- Ambient Displays & Calm Computing
-
-: **Readings** Really interesting contrast between these
-- [In the Shadow of misperception: Assistive Technology Use and Social Interactions](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1978942.1979044)
-[Assistive Technologies for Students with Visual Impairments and Blindness](https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44652121/Assistive_Technology_for_Students_with_V20160412-16073-qkgr5l.pdf) long — skim it, and focus on learning about at least 5 assistive technologies you weren’t familiar with before (starts on p. 11 of the pdf and goes until p. 31) p. 33 is also worth reading.
-
{: .week}
-# Week 9: May 24th week: Web Accessibility
-
-{: .lecture} Modern Web Accessibility (try to get a guest lecturer)
-: **Learning Goals** Learn about “The Web,†how access technologies interact with the Web, and how to make accessible web pages.
-: **Readings/Home Experimentation**
-- [WAVE](https://wave.webaim.org/) on your website or web page and look at the results before class.
-- [Google Video on Practical Web Accessibility](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x18vEEfpK3g) — this video provides a great overview of the Web and how to make web content accessible. Highly recommended as a supplement to what we will cover in class.
-- Optional Reading: If you want to supplement the reading with written guidance, check out WebAim.org [Introduction to Web Accessibility](https://webaim.org/intro/), specifically the section titled ‘Principles of Accessible Design’ (which has links to how to properly write alt text; appropriate document structure, and so on). WebAIM has long been a leader in providing information and tutorials on making the Web accessible. A great source where you can read about accessibility issues, making content accessible, etc. Run -
-- Reading 2: [What’s the problem?](https://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/headline-story/11421/disability-web-accessibility-design/)
+# Week 9: May 24th week -- Topics and lecture content coming soon!
-: **Reading Question** How can we make the web accessible when individual authors don’t? Also how can we improve web authoring?
+{: .lecture} Lecture content coming soon!
-Exercise: [Assess a Web Page](assignments/website). In class, we will also make it more accessible. Please come prepared having already done an analysis of the web page.
+: **Readings (tentative)**
+- [Google Video on Practical Web Accessibility](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x18vEEfpK3g) — this video provides a great overview of the Web and how to make web content accessible. Highly recommended as a supplement to what we will cover in class.
{: .week}
# Week 10: May 31st week--
-Screen Readers (AKA Bigham (plus a few others) week 🙂
-[Building a screen reader on the web](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1368044.1368060) (required reading):
-[How people use screen readers (optional)](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1805986.1806005)
-[Providing access to graphical interfaces (optional)](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=191028.191041)
-
-Additional Issues (glance through the abstracts for these)
-- [Crowdsourcing Video Captions](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3025453.3026032)
-- [Enhancing screen access with new physical computing techniques](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-4471-7440-0_36)
-- [Reverse engineering touch screen accessibility](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3332165.3347873)
-- [Human vs OCR labeling of web images](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1168987.1169018)
-- [A browser extension to describe images on Twitter](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3308561.3354629)
-- [Automatically judging alternative text quality](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1216295.1216364)
-- [Automation to fix problems with headings](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1414471.1414508)
-- [Making updates to web pages accessible](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1414471.1414499)
-- [An automated web guide](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1502650.1502677)
-- [Automating magnification on the web](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2642918.2647357)
-- [Capturing accessibility problems just after they happen] (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1878803.1878812)
+
Mid-project Reports (Wednesday)
{: .week}
-# Finals week: Final presentations
+# Finals week: Final presentations.
+
+Logistics to be decided soon, but sessions will happen during class time.
-{: .week}
-# Old materials
-Observation Assignment (timing/etc. tentative) Due to Prof. Mankoff by end of quarter)
-
-http://all.rit.edu/
-
-## Possible guest lecturers?
-- Chancey Fleet (try hard!)
-- Jenny Lay-Fleurie
-- Kurt Johnson, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
-Topic: Disability Policy and Law
-- Debbie Cook, Director, Washington Assistive Technology Alliance
-Topic: Current Accessibilty Solutions
-- Wendy Chisholm
-Topic 1: Accessibility of Dynamic Web Content
-- Jeff Bigham, Computer Science and Engineering
-Topic: Social Approaches to Web Accessibility
-- Julie Kientz, Technical Communication and the Information School
-Topic: Tools for Supporting Individuals with Autism and other Cognitive Disabilities
-- Anna Cavender, Computer Science and Engineering
-Topic: Deaf and Hard of Hearing Cyber Community
-- Shaun Kane (3d printing)
-- Shiri Azenkot (low vision/VR/AR)
-
-## Topics dropped off the list
-- Characterizing the performance of input devices
-- Digital techniques for adapting to user input capabilities (e.g. voice control, eye gaze)
-- Novel interaction techniques (e.g. mobile phone interaction, at the time)
-- Passive sensing and other real world input challenges