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Week 1 (3/29): Introduction

{: .lecture} Introduction to Accessibility Technology : Learning Goals Overview of accessibility and its relationship to computation; Introduction to Disability studies; History of disability rights

Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Course" loc="wk01/intro.html" %} Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Accessibility" loc="wk01/accessibility.html" %}

Take-home Exercise You will need to submit the learning goals homework and a canvas discussion on understanding experiences of people with disabilities by next class.

{: .lecture} Guest lecture : Lecture by Kurt Johnson, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine on Disability Policy and Law : Slides Linked handout on canvas

: Reading: Please pick two readings from this Walking While Blind in Manhattan During the Pandemic; Q&A with Jamison Hill; The AmazonBasics Microwave With Alexa Shows How Gimmicks Are Gold; How blind people use iPhones; Talking intersections with race, disability, and police violence; Deaf people face unique challenges as pandemic drags on; and respond to the thread on the Canvas discussion

Prep for Activity 1

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Week 2 (4/5): Screen readers

Readings and other Preparation This is a first introduction to disability and an important starting place through providing a disability studies perspective up front in the class. : Reading

{: .lecture} Introduction to screen readers and begin forming teams for homework 1.

: Learning Goals Understand a disability-centered perspective and its impact on designing accessibility technologies, get introduced to screen readers. : Slides Linked slides on canvas

{: .lecture} Activity 1 presentations : Learning Goals Understand how people with disabilities currently use accessibility technologies; Exposure to a variety of AT

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Week 3 (4/12): Screen Readers/Bandwidth and Access

Readings and other Preparation

{: .lecture} Introduction to Switch Access : Learning Goals Introduction to switch controls and building interfaces for use by people with limited mobility

Slides TBD

Activity2 and HW1 work time.

{: .lecture} Guest lecture : Lecture by Brett Humphrey, Microsoft on screen readers : Learning Goals Practical stories on screen reader implementation and use

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Week 4 (4/19): Accessible Media

We will learn about best practices to make certain types of media accessible.

  • Intro to alt-text and audio description.
  • Describe a video (in class) and an image (in class)

Readings

{: .lecture} Discussion & in-class activity. : Learning Goals

  • Understanding how to write good alt text
  • Differences between image description and UI description
  • Understanding video description
  • Awareness of where and why alt text is missing on the web

{: .lecture} Homework 1 final presentations. : Slides to be uploaded by students on canvas

{: .holiday} Everything after this is draft : Status below TBD

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Week 5 (4/26): More alt text, captions and sound recognition

Readings

{: .lecture} Tutorial on machine learning, intro to homework 2, and work time. : Slides TBD

{: .lecture} Guest Lecture : Lecture by Cynthia Bennett

Slides TBD

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Week 6 (5/3): Activism, advocacy and power

Readings

{: .lecture} Homework 2 check-in : lecture We will have office hours with each team with a progress update on their HW2.

{: .lecture} Accessibility work, activism and advocacy : Lecture content coming soon!

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Week 7 (5/10): Corporate accessibility

{: .lecture} Final presentations for homework 2. : Process Refer to the presentation component of homework 2 spec, coming soon..

{: .lecture} Guest lecture : Guest lecture by Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft. : Slides coming soon

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Week 8 (5/17): Accessibility's overlooked spaces

{: .lecture} Final project check-in : process Please be prepared to present your project idea for five minutes. The class will discuss and provide feedback on this.

{: .lecture} Accessibility's overlooked spaces : slides coming soon

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Week 9 (5/24): Accessibility checking!

{: .lecture} Final project check-in : Process teams present project status for in-class discussion.

{: .lecture} Accessibility testing : Slides coming soon : Readings (tentative)

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Week 10 (5/31): Web accessibility

{: .holiday} No Class -- Memorial Day : Project Email checkin

{: .lecture} Web accessibility : slides TBD

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Finals week: Final presentations.

Logistics to be decided soon.