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{: .module} # Module 1: Accessibility Basics

{: .week}

Week 1 (1/3): Introduction to Accessibility

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • What is Accessibility? Disability?
  • What is the difference between Disability studies, Disability Justice; and various models of disability
  • History of disability rights
  • Understand models for disability-centered design {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic} 5:30-6:20 Introduction to Accessibility & Disability
Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Accessibility" loc="accessibility.html" %}
{: .break} 6:20-6:40
Break / Food
{: .topic} 6:40-7:50 In-class Activities
Slides {% include slide.html title="In Class Activities" loc="accessibility-activities.html" %}
{: .activity} Skill Goal: Learn how accommodations can make a meeting more inclusive
In class Exercise Put your accommodation needs into PollEverywhere; discuss what comes up and what else might be relevant
Small Group Discussion How would you implement this in your workplace? (post on Ed)
{: .activity} Skill Goal: Analyze a piece of technology from a Disability Rights perspective
Small Group Discussion Analysis of the iPhone (post on Ed)
{: .activity} Skill Goal: Analyze a topic from a disability justice perspective
Small Group Discussion Analyze masking from a disability justice perspective (post on Ed)
{: .break} 7:50-8:00
Break
{: .topic} 8:00-8:20 Overview of course
Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Course" loc="syllabus.html" %} Introduction to course syllabus & assignments

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Disability Justice Homework Assigned: Pick an access topic and analyze it from a disability justice perspective.
{: .homework} Readings for next week

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 2 (1/10): Accessibility Assessment 1: Guidelines and Assessment

{: .prepare} Come Prepared
Come to class with an image, diagram, or other graphic you want to describe; Be prepared (install and try out) one of: switch control, a screen reader, or magnification on your phone

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • What are the current accessibility standards
  • Get comfortable with basic image description (images, people)
  • How do we use automated tools to assess accessibility
  • How can we use accessibility technology to assess accessibility
  • Get comfortable using existing freely available accessibility technology to support assessment {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic} 5:30-6:00 Introduction to Assessing Accessibility & Practice
Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility" loc="assessment.html" %}
{: .activity} Skill Goal: Image Description
In class Exercise Break into small groups and show each other the inaccessible images you found. Work on a short and long description appropriate to your image type. (post on Ed)
{: .break} 6:20-6:40
Break / Food
{: .topic} 6:40-7:40 More about Assessment
Digging deeper into assignments and assessment skills
{: .topic} Guidelines 1.1, 1.2, and Automated Assessment
Slides Continue {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility Cont..." loc="assessment.html#45" %}
{: .activity} Skill Goal: Automated Assessment
In class Exercise Use WebAIM Wave to assess the Seattle Public Schools Website (Post a UAR on Ed
{: .break} 7:40-7:50
Break
{: .topic} Guidelines 1.3, 1.4, and Manual Assessment
Slides Continue {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility Cont..." loc="assessment.html#52" %}
{: .activity} Skill Goal: Use Accessibility Technologies to assess the same website
Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility Cont..." loc="assessment.html#65" %}

In class Exercise Break into small groups. Each pick one of the following and try out the website

  • Screen reader
  • Switch input
  • Magnification

Try to find something you didn't find with an automated tool. (Post a UAR on Ed)

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Website/app accessibility Assigned: Assess and write a report
{: .homework} Readings for next week

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 3 (1/17): Accessibility Assessment 2: Tradeoffs and Advanced Methods

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • What are the tradeoffs between different tools?
  • Beginning to look at study design by example
  • More advanced accessibility techniques
    • Differences between Image description, Diagram description and UI description
    • Video description & Captioning
    • Math, Tables & other elements (including custom interactors)
    • Navigation and its impact on Accessibility; how to set up proper header structures. {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic} 5:30-6:00 Comparison of Accessibility Assessment Approaches
Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility: Comparing Techniques" loc="assessment2.html" %}
{: .activity} Discussion: Value of Cumulative Assessment
In class Exercise Find the students who assessed the same website as you. Talk about the UARs you generated. Did you find different problems from other students? Why do you think you did, or did not, find different problems? Post your discussion notes to the Ed Thread for your website.
{: .break} 6:20-6:40
Break / Food
{: .topic} 6:40-7:40 Best Practices for Improving Accessibility
Slides {% include slide.html title="Best Practices: Improving Accessibility" loc="best-practices.html" %}
{: .activity} Skill Goal: Video description
In class Exercise Break into small groups. Pick a video from youdescribe.org and work on a description as a group. (post a link to your video on Ed)
{: .break} 7:40-7:50
Break
{: .activity} In Class Work Time
Finish your video description and post it. If done early, work on your website writeup.

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Readings for next week

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 4 (1/24): Accessible Needfinding and Evaluation

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • How to present accessibly
  • How to write using plain language
  • How to assess whether a technology is accessible; and whether an accessibility technology is useful and usable, in an inclusive fashion.
  • How do you make sure your product is accessible to people with disabilities
    1. Data Equity and implicit bias
    2. Beyond automated assessment: Accessible Summative Studies
    3. Importance of Intersectionality
  • How do you make sure your accessibility technology is valued by people with disabilities
    • What are potential data sources for assessing value
    • Collaboration Versus Paternalism
    • Overly narrow views of disability: Multiple disabled people & multiply disabled people {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic} 5:30-6:15 Introduction to Accessible Evaluation
Slides {% include slide.html title="Presenting Accessibly" loc="presenting-acessibly.html" %} Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility" loc="evaluation.html" %}
{: .topic} 6:15-6:25 Practice Study Design
Amazon Alexa
  1. Write down a list of accessibility assessment goals (metrics)
  2. Write down a sampling goal (who is included)
  3. Discuss
{: .break} 6:25-6:40
Break / Food
{: .topic} 6:30-7:30 Slides & Discussion:
Slides {% include slide.html title="Designing for and with people with disabilities" loc="designing.html" %} Slides {% include slide.html title="Plain Language" loc="plain-language.html" %}

Discussion of Disability Dongle Paper

{: .topic} 7:30-7:40 First Person Accounts
Introduction to Finding Accessibility
{: .break} 7:40-7:50 {: .topic} 7:50-8:20 Work on Assignment

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Finding Accessibility Assigned: Summarize a first person account of an access technology
{: .homework} Plain Language Assigned: Write something up in plain language.
{: .homework} Post-module Reflection: Accessibility Basics Reflection
{: .homework} Readings for next week
{: .module} # Module 2: Second Wave Accessibility

{: .week}

Week 5 (1/31): AT Around us Presentations + AR/VR

{% details Learning Goals %}

{% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan: %}

{: .topic 5:30-7:00} Presentations
Accessibility Assessment Assignment
{: .break} 7:00-7:10
Break / Food
{: .topic 5:30-7:00} AR/VR
Slides {% include slide.html title="AR/VR" loc="arvr.html" %}
try out Jon's tool hopefully

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey {: .homework} Readings for next week

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 6 (2/7): Data Equity

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • Bias in Machine Learning
    • What is Machine Learning (ML)?
    • What are the components of ML?
    • How do we collect data? Who do we collect the data from?
    • Is the data "good"?
    • How do we minimize disability bias?
  • Accessible Data Visualizations
    • What are the commonly-used techniques to make data visualizations accessible?
    • What are the pros and cons of these techniques?
    • What are some of the nuances in making data visualizations accessible? {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic} 5:35-6:20 Bias in Machine Learning
Slides {% include slide.html title="Bias in Machine Learning" loc="bias-in-machine-learning.html" %}
{: .break} 6:20-6:30 Break / Food
{: .topic} 6:30-7:20 Accessible Data Visualizations
Slides {% include slide.html title="Accessible Data Visualizations" loc="accessible-data-viz.html" %}
{: .break} 7:20-7:30 Break
{: .activity} 7:30-8:20 Discussion with Guest:
Matthew Butler

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Final Project presentation preparation

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 7 (2/14): Final Project Proposals

{% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Readings for next week

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 8 (2/21): Making Accessibility: Fabrication and Physical Computing

{% details Class Plan: STILL TBD %}

{: .topic 5:30-7:00} Fabrication and Accessibility
Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to 3D Printing and Physical Computing" loc="3dprinting.html" %}

In-class exercise: Creating a laser cut accessibility aid. Steps are:

  1. Create an SVG (can use powerpoint for this; will demonstrate) & make sure it has an appropriate size in mm
  2. Print it on paper and cut it out to double check
  3. Provide it to Jen for laser cutting
  4. Sand and/or assemble your object

{% details Example Objects %} Some examples of things that one can laser cut which serve an accessibility purpose

I'm also thinking about having them use fusion360 or something else to make something a little more shapely (I'm assuming these are all out of scope for you, but please correct me if I'm wrong)

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Finding Accessibility Assigned: Summarize a first person account of an access technology
{: .homework} Post-module Reflection: 2nd Wave Accessibility Reflection (TBD)

{% enddetails %}

{: .module} # Module 3: Third Wave Accessibility

{: .week}

Week 9 (2/28): Intersectionality with Race, Gender & Other Identities

{% details Learning Goals: STILL TBD %} {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan: STILL TBD %} ...

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 10 (3/7): Sustainability, Urban Access and Housing

{% details Learning Goals: STILL TBD %} {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan: STILL TBD %} ...

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Finals week: Final presentations 3/14, 6:30pm

{: .lecture} Final project presentations

{% details Currently Unused %} Optional