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# Week 1: Accessibility
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# Important Reminder
## This is an important reminder
## Make sure zoom is running and recording!!!
## Make sure captioning is turned on
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# Learning Goals for today
- What is Accessibility?
- Example of Accessibility Technologies
- Introduction to First Assignment: [AT Around Us]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/finding-accessibility.html)
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# Accessibility
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.column[**Disability** is a mismatched interaction between someone and their context]
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.column[**Inclusive design** is a framework that helps us design more accessible products]
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# Accessibility technology
.quote[[anything] ... used to increase, maintain, or improve functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities] (Wikipedia)
What model is this arguing for? [talk to your neighbor & [Vote](https://PollEv.com/multiple_choice_polls/1piiNRJmdxyR7milxVSEN/respond)]
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# Accessibility technology: Voting Results
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# Accessibility technology
How people with disabilities *may* navigate computers (and the world)
Used to be called "assistive technology" but that language is ableist
One solution, not parallel solutions
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Not a *medical* device
A broader view than Wikipedia
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.font-medium[Screen Readers]
.font-mediumsmall[Narrator, VoiceOver, JAWS, Window Eyes, NVDA, TalkBack]
.font-medium[Screen adjustment]
.font-mediumsmall[ZoomText, Magnifier, Zoom, High Contrast
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.font-medium[Speech input]
.font-mediumsmall[Dragon Naturally Speaking, Dictation, Speech Recognition]
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.font-medium[Many more]
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# Learning Goals for today
- What is Accessibility?
- **Example of Accessibility Technologies**
- Introduction to First Assignment: [AT Around Us]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/finding-accessibility.html)
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# Lots of software for this
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- Magnifier – make whole screen or a portion bigger
- Can also just use larger fonts, lower resolution
- Change colors and contrast
- Free Screen Reader – read the words on the screen
- On-Screen keyboard
- Can be scanned
- Built-in speech recognition
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Most Operating Systems (laptops and smartphones) have a whole collection of adaptations
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lots of software for this
Adaptations for mouse
- Make mouse easier to see
- Move mouse with the keyboard
Adaptations for keyboard
- Sticky Keys – so no need for chords
- Work like on Smartphones
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# Example: Single Switch Access
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Can point to on-screen keyboards with various mechanisms, or use scanning keyboards
- e.g. sip and puff to select
On Screen Keyboard
- Usually add auto-complete and *auto-predict* .footnote[Auto-predict: Predict next word based on previous words with no letters typed]
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![:youtube Video of person using switch input to make a video using a drone,YoM0Gua3UO4]
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Other options: [youtube Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhHwk9qSvI&t=148s)
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# Lots of exciting advances still happening
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- Vizwiz (Bigham)
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# Lots of exciting advances happening
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- Vizwiz
- Thingiverse (Hurst)
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# Lots of exciting advances happening
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- Vizwiz
- Thingiverse
- Facade (Guo)
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# Lots of exciting advances happening
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- Vizwiz
- Thingiverse
- Facade
- [Voice Assistants](https://voicebot.ai/2019/09/11/amazon-alexa-ad-shows-how-voice-assistants-help-visually-impaired-people/) (Findlater)
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# Practical Basis for Accessibility
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In 1808, Pellegrino Turri built the first typewriter, so that his blind lover, could write letters more legibly.
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Speech recognition, text to speech, and word-prediction technologies were all initially developed for people with disabilities.
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In 1937, Joseph Friedman created the first bendy straw to help his young daughter drink from a cup on a counter that was too high for her.
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# Tropes & ways things can go wrong
Hero complex (I can save you with this new technology)
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Disability Dongle
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Disability inspiration [stop at 4:29]
![:youtube Ted Talk Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn't; she'd like to make clear; automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity. In this very funny talk; Young breaks down society's habit of turning disabled people into "inspiration porn.",8K9Gg164Bsw]
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# A note on language
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Identity-first language (“disabled people”) vs. people-first (“people with disabilities”). Preferences change depending on region, cultural context, community
Avoid “stricken with”, “suffers from” or victimization language
Avoid “able-bodied” or “normal” as differentiating terms
**You will offend people because this is ableist** (and lose points on your assignments)
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# Watch and Analyze
![:youtube At Apple; we believe accessibility is a human right. Innovative features like Door Detection; Sound Recognition; Voice Control; and more are designed to let you use your devices in ways that work best for you, 8sX9IEHWRJ8]
hero complex? disability inspiration? language issues? all good?
Small group discussion; Summarize your discussion on [Ed]({{site.discussion}}2342965)
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# Learning Goals for today
- What is Accessibility?
- Example of Accessibility Technologies
- **Introduction to First Assignment: [AT Around Us]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/finding-accessibility.html)**
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# First Assignment: [AT Around Us]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/finding-accessibility.html) (1 of 2)
- Practice presenting accessibly
- Exposure to a range of accessiblity technologies
- Experience finding first person accounts
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# First Assignment: [AT Around Us]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/finding-accessibility.html) (2 of 2)
Find one computer access technology
Find one about "the world"
Key points
- Try not to pick the same things as your classmates
- Should include a *first person video*
- Should be able to try it out yourself
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# What is a *First Person Video*
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# Handin requirements (due Monday)
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Handin:
- Two accessible slides per AT (see Canvas for slide deck)
- Present one of them next week (accessibly) in 3-4 minutes (will take about half of class)
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Slide includes:
- A summary of the AT you researched
- Information about its audience
- A picture of the AT
- A link to the first person account you found
- Something you learned from the video and/or by trying it about its strengths and weaknesses
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