updated content to reflect planning meeting prior to March 10. one activity...

updated content to reflect planning meeting prior to March 10. one activity and homework need to be updated.

assignments/act3-describing-video-image.md

+---
+layout: assignment
+published: true
+
+title: Describing Pictures and Videos
+code: ex1
+
+assigned: April 21, 2021
+due: April 26, 2021 in class
+Lock 6:30PM April 26, 2021
+- <strong>Presentation</strong><br>
+  in-class on April 26<br>
+- <strong>Peer evaluation</strong><br>
+  in-class<br>
+  
+revised: March 10, 2021
+
+objective: Describe a video and image
+
+---
+
+* TOC
+{:toc}
+
+
+# Assignment Description
+
+This activity requires you to:
+1. find an image, and describe it (write alt-text).
+2. Describe a video on [YouDescribe](https://youdescribe.org/). The website authors put together a [comprehensive set of instructions](https://youdescribe.org/support/tutorial) to use their interface to describe videos.
+ 
+
+## What counts as a good image
+
+Please pick images that have people, objects, and/or landscapes. You could also pick visualizations or memes, but please do not pick pictures of text or screenshots of conversations.
+
+## What counts as a good video?
+
+Again, please pick videos that have people, objects and activity. Please do not pick videos that contain only scrolling text. YouDescribe has a good [request list](https://youdescribe.org/wishlist) for you to pick from!
+
+
+# Turn-in
+You will add your picture (with your alt-text), and a link to your described video to a shared google doc before class. your described videos will be played in class. [Instructions to add alt-text in google docs](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/6199477?hl=en)
+
+
+### Grading (XX pts)
+
+This HW will be out of XX points and will roughly (subject to small adjustments) be distributed as:
+

assignments/index.md

@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ 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)               |   |  |  
+| [HW1: improve a screen reader]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/hw1-nvda)               |   |  | 
+| Activity2: make a website usable with switch access -- spec TBD.               |   |  |
+| [Activity3: Describe pictures and videos]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/act3-describing-video-image)               |   |  |
+| HW2: teach machines to recognize sounds and visualize them -- spec TBD.               |   |  |
+| [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

assignments/project.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: assignment
 published: true
 
-title: Website Accessibility
+title: Final Project
 code: as2
 
 assigned: Date
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ due:
  - <strong>Due</strong> date
  - <strong>Lock</strong> date
 
-revised: date
+revised: March10, 2021
 
-objective: Website Compliance Evaluation Assignment
+objective: Make the world slightly more accessible
 
 ---
 The goal of your final project is to explore an accessibility issue in more depth than you’ve been able to do in our projects so far. In choosing this project, you may want to draw from personal expertise, literature, or user data should you have access to it.
@@ -21,10 +21,11 @@ Your final project will have three phases:
 
 # Proposal
 *Proposal*: Your proposal be a slide deck with 5 slides that describe your
+- What access gap are you trying to address?
 - promise: How the world will be better based on your project
 - obstacle: Why we don’t have this already.
 - solution: How you will achieve the promise. This will most likely be primarily technical, such as a novel device.
-- related work: It should also include a related work section with at least 5 references showing some evidence for the importance of this problem.
+- related work: It should also include a related work section with at least 5 references showing some evidence for the importance of this problem. This evidance should be informed by perspectives or your end users, people with disabilities.
 - timeline: Finally, it should include a timeline showing that this is feasible.
 
 *Development*: We will check in on projects in part of class and/or office hours on a weekly basis to help provide guidance about progress on the milestones laid out in your timeline
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ It does not need a related work section, and you will want to put your names on
 ## Written Document
 The report should cover these main sections:
 
-- Introduction — 1-3 paragraphs: Present the promise/ obstacle/ solution for your project — what is the problem are you solving and why is it important to solve it? This can re-use text from your midterm report.
+- Introduction — 1-3 paragraphs: Present the promise/ obstacle/ solution for your project — what is the problem you are solving and why is it important to solve it? This can re-use text from your midterm report.
 - Related Work  — 3-4 paragraphs: Talk about relevant work that closely connects with your project. This can re-use text from your midterm report.
 - Methodology — about 1 page: What did you do in your project – If you worked with participants: how many people, what did they do. If you implemented a system, or designed something, what did you design?
 - Disability Studies Perspective – 1 Paragraph: How did a disability studies perspective inform your project
@@ -57,9 +58,9 @@ The report should cover these main sections:
 ## Important notes and considerations
 Language: You will be expected to use best practices in language and presentation. Here is the SIGACCESS guide on this.
 
-The things we have emphasized in this class, namely a disability studies perspective and physical building, should be featured in your project as much as possible.
+The things we have emphasized in this class, namely a disability studies perspective should be featured in your project as much as possible.
 - With respect to disability studies, you should think critically about whether and how your project empowers and gives agency to people with disabilities, as well as the extent to which it expects/engages the larger structural issues around the problem you’re trying to solve
-- With respect to physical computing, this is not required, but you should get approval from the instructor if you go in a different direction, and have a rationale
+
 
 If you don’t have personal experience justifying the choice of problem, it is important to find studies that involved people with disabilities that help justify the sense of your proposed work. It is not feasible to do a full iterative design cycle in this project (and not necessarily an ethical use of the time of people with disabilities), but equally important not to come in with a ‘hero complex’ and simply believe you know what people need.
 

schedule.md

@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ Guest lecture by Kurt Johnson, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine
 {: .week}
 # Week 2: 4/5 week: Access to Computers -- screen readers
 **Readings and other Preparation** The first week's reading will be lengthy. This is a first introduction to disability and an important starting place through providing a disability studies perspective up front in the class. 
-: **Reading** [Disability Studies as a source of critical inquiry...](https://make4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/MankoffAssets2010.pdf)
+: **Reading**
+- [Disability Studies as a source of critical inquiry...](https://make4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/MankoffAssets2010.pdf)
+- Optional: [semantics to screen readers](https://alistapart.com/article/semantics-to-screen-readers/)
+- optional: [rethinking web accessibility on Windows](https://www.marcozehe.de/rethinking-web-accessibility-on-windows/)
 
 {: .lecture}
 Introduction to screen readers and begin forming teams for homework 1.
@@ -39,7 +42,10 @@ Activity 1 presentations
 {: .week}
 # Week 3: 4/12 week: Access to Computers -- Screen Readers and Switch Access
 **Readings and other Preparation**
-- readings TBD.
+- [Access Lab - the Switch](https://axesslab.com/switches/)
+- [SAK: Scanning ambiguous keyboard for efficient one-key text entry](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1806923.1806925)
+- optional viewing: [Switch Control overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQKEE9nI1lk)
+- optional viewing: [One thumb to rule them all](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhHwk9qSvI)
 
 {: .lecture} Introduction to switch access.
 : **Learning Goals** Introduction to switch controls and building interfaces for use by people with limited mobility
@@ -47,7 +53,7 @@ Activity 1 presentations
 **slides TBD**
 **activity2 and HW1 work time.**
 
-{: .lecture} Guest lecture TBD on guilding screen readers
+{: .lecture} Guest lecture by Brett Humphrey, Microsoft on screen readers
 : **Learning Goals** Practical advice on screen readers
 
 
@@ -58,6 +64,8 @@ We will learn about best practices to make certain types of media accessible.
   - intro to alt-text and audio description.
   - describe a video.
   - intro to captions.
+**Readings and other Preparation**
+- Readings TBD.
 
 {: .lecture} TBD lecture on intro to audio descriptions, captions and alt-text.
 : **Slides**
@@ -68,13 +76,14 @@ TBD
 : **Slides** to be uploaded by students on canvas
 
 {: .week}
-# Week 5: 4/26 week: accessibility to the world -- captions or sound recognition TBD
-
+# Week 5: 4/26 week: accessibility to the world -- More alt text, captions or sound recognition TBD
+**Readings and other Preparation**
+- [its complicated: Negociating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender and Disability](https://guoanhong.com/papers/CHI21-ImageDescriptions.pdf)
 
 {: .lecture} work time and intro to homework 2 (TBD).
 : **Slides** TBD
 
-{: .lecture} tentative lecture by cynthia Bennett
+{: .lecture} lecture by [cynthia Bennett](https://www.bennettc.com/)
 : **Slides** TBD