schedule-ugrad.md

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title: Schedule
description: Class schedule and links to lectures, readings and assignments

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Module 1: Accessibility Basics

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Week 1 (9/22 - 9/28): Introduction to Disability & Accessibility

Monday NO CLASS

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Wednesday {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Course" loc="introduction-ugrad.html" %}

• AT Around Us Assigned

Thursday Section: Discussion and demos of accessibility technologies; Ice Breakers & Norms.

Friday {% include slide.html title="Accessibility" loc="accessibility.html" %}

• Preparation for next week:
  • Read Disability Dongles
  • Read Plain language writing.
  • Optional: If you want to dig deeper, read Plain language or Disability Dongles by Liz Jackson

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Week 2 (9/29 - 10/5): Accessible Documents & Design A11yhood

Monday {% include slide.html title="Accessible Presentations and Presenting Accessibly" loc="presenting-accessibly.html" %}

• AT Around Us Due

Wednesday {% include slide.html title="Design A11yhood" loc="designing-ugrad.html" %}

• A11yhood Analysis Homework Assigned

Thursday Section: AT Around Us Presentations (2 groups per section)

Friday Guest Lecturer: Kate Glazko -- {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Text Simplification" loc="plain-language.html" %}

• Kate also presented this in-class exercise
• Preparation for next week:
  • Read The Importance of Manual Accessibility Testing
  • Read Creating accessible images and diagrams
  • Optional: If you want to dig deeper, read Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write ALT text or read about Making numbers accessible

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Week 3 (10/6-10/12): Guidelines and Assessment

Monday {% include slide.html title="Accessibility Testing" loc="testing.html" %}

• A11yhood Analysis Homework Due

Wednesday {% include slide.html title="What is Accessible?" loc="assessment.html" %}

• Website Testing Homework Assigned

Thursday Section: Practice with Accessibility Assessment

Friday {% include slide.html title="More Accessibility Standards" loc="assessment2.html" %}

• Readings and Preparation:
  • Read about how web semantics are represented by screen readers.
  • Watch Anticipate and Adjust CHI 2022
  • Also learn what doesn't work: Lies, Damned Lies, Overlays, and Widgets
  • Optional If you want to dig deeper you may find it interesting to watch the Google Video on Practical Web Accessibility and to read Anticipate and Adjust CHI 2022

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Week 4 (10/13-10/19): Building & Remediating Accessible Interfaces

Monday {% include slide.html title="How to build for accessibility" loc="best-practices.html" %}

• Website Testing Homework Due

Wednesday {% include slide.html title="Guest Lecture: Avery Mack: Assessing Accessibility" loc="evaluation.html" %}

• Accessibility Implementation Assigned

Thursday Section: Help with Accessibility Implementation

Friday {% include slide.html title="How to build for accessibility and Software Engineering" loc="best-practices2.html" %}

• Readings and Preparation:
  • Readings about from "Teaching Accessible Computing"
    • Read about accessibility's relevance to different areas of computer science: Software Engineering or Mobile Dev
    • Read about Robotics and Accessibility

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Week 5 (10/20 - 10/26): Accessible In Industry

Monday: Robotics and Accessibility (Tentative)

• Accessibility Implementation Due

Wednesday: {% include slide.html title="Industry perspectives on accessible" loc="industry-panel.html" %}

Discussion of accessibility testing and born accessible systems.

• Website Report Assigned

Thursday Section: Group Work on Report

Friday: Presentations of Accessible Implementation Assignment

• Readings and Preparation:
  • Read Machine Learning and Accessibility from "Teaching Accessible Computing"
  • Read the Chartability Workbook until the beginning of the heading “the tests”.
  • Optional If you want to, dig deeper with ChatGPT is Biased Against Resumes Mentioning Disability, Fairness issues in AI Systems that augment sensory abilities and/or Increasing Data Equity in Accessibility and/or dataviza11y resources and/or Data Science + Accessibility from "Teaching Accessible Computing"

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Module 2: Post GUI Accessibility

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Week 6 (10/27 - 11/2): AI and Data Visualization

Monday 10/28: {% include slide.html title="AI and Accessibility" loc="bias-in-machine-learning.html" %}

• Website Report Due

Wednesday 10/30: {% include slide.html title="Course Feedback, Final Project & Best of Assets" loc="best-of-assets2024.html" %}

• Project Proposal Assigned

Thursday 10/31: Section - Group Formation & Practice making data accessible

Friday 11/1: {% include slide.html title="Data Visualization" loc="data-visualization.html" %}

• Preparation for next week:
  • Read Laser cutting with Tinkercad
  • Join our Tinkercard Classroom
  • Complete the tutorial in our Laser Cut Accessibility Aid activity.
  • Read Empowering individuals with do-it-yourself assistive technology
  • Optional: Read Consumer-Grade Fabrication and Its Potential to Revolutionize Accessibility, CACM 2019.

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Week 7 (11/3 - 11/9): Fabrication and Accessibility

Monday 11/4: {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Laser Cutting" loc="laser-cutting.html" %}

• Project Proposal Due

Wednesday 11/6:

• In class work on accessible objects
• Testing with paper, scissors, and printers
• Some overnight printing if ready
• Project checkpoint Assigned

Thursday 11/7: Section in CSE 022

• Finish making laser cuttable designs and print

Friday 11/8: {% include slide.html title="Fabrication and Physical Computing" loc="3dprinting.html" %}

• Final project groups must be finalized
• Readings and Preparation:
  • Read How Android Accessibility Services Can Be Used to Hack Your Phone; Lewis et al.
  • Read Security and Privacy from "Teaching Accessible Computing"

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Week 8 (11/10-11/16): Accessibility Across Technology

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Monday 11/11: Veterans day (HOLIDAY)

Wednesday 11/13: (Tentative) Security and Privacy

• Project Checkpoint 1 Slides Due

Thursday 11/14: Section - Project Group Checkins (Full group attendance required, details TBD)

• You'll present your Checkpoint 1 slides to course staff with your whole group

Friday 11/15: (Tentative) AR/VR Accessibility

• Readings and Preparation:
  • Watch Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability and Technology
  • Listen to or watch one of the following first person accounts:
    • Stop Doing That! With Nyle DiMarco
    • Chicas talk disability;
    • AAC User Perspectives on Racism and Disability (From time 42:25 Podcast Website or YouTube at Timestamp with Transcription)
  • Read A just transition for disabled people
  • Watch The Right to be Rescued.
  • Optional: Read The principal of collective access or Climate Crisis makes us recognize our limits: Disability culture can show us how

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Module 3: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Week 9 (11/17-11/23): Intersectionality and Sustainability

Monday 11/18: Intersectionality Roundtable (Guest TBD)

Wednesday 11/20: Language Justice

Thursday 11/21: Group Project Work Time

Friday 11/22: {% include slide.html title="Sustainability" loc="sustainability.html" %}

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Week 10 (11/24--11/30):

Sunday 11/24

• Project Checkpoint 2 Slides Due

Monday 11/25 and Wednesday 11/27: Group Checkpoints

• Sign up for a meeting slot to present your Checkpoint 2 slides with your whole group (slots will overlap class but also extend beyond class hours)

Thursday 11/28 and Friday 11/29: Thanksgiving break (HOLIDAY)

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Week 11 (12/1--12/7): Final Project Presentations (tentative)

Monday 12/2: AMA

Wednesday 12/4: Final Project Presentations

Thursday 12/5: Final Project Presentations

Friday 12/6: Final Project Presentations

Finals week (tentative)

Monday 12/9: Final Project Handins Due by 11:30am

• Final Project Handin (Group) Due
• Final Project Handin (Individual) Due

{: .week} {% details Unused Reading and Ideas %}

• How to do something good in the disability community if you're not disabled
• VR ALT Text
• Crippin' Jim Crow
• Traumatic Brain Injury: A Guide for Criminal Justice Professionals
• Disabling Incarceration: Connecting Disability to Divergent Confinements in the USA
• A systematic literature review of handheld augmented reality solutions for people with disabilities
• 7 benefits of AR and VR for People with Disabilities (a bit ableist)
• Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Research, Access and Design
• Disability Studies as a source of critical inquiry...
• Vital coronavirus is failing the blind and visually impaired
• Blurring the Boundaries Between Assistive Tech and Companionship (a little too salesy)
• The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytic, Policy, and Tools
• My Disability Is Dynamic
• Considerations for HCI accessibility practices with chronically ill people
• Areas of Strategic Visibility: Disability Bias in Biometrics
• Explaining Explanations: An Approach to Evaluating Interpretability of Machine Learning
• A systematic literature review of handheld augmented reality solutions for people with disabilities
• The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytic, Policy, and Tools
• Andrew, S., Watson, S., Oh, T., & Tigwell, G. W. (2020). A Review of Literature on Accessibility and Authentication Techniques. The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3418005
• Vivian Motti (2023). Accessible Security and Privacy. Open Access. (In preparation).
• What is audio description? (from The Audio Description Project)
• Switches; {% enddetails %}