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{: .module} # Module 1: Accessibility Basics


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Week 1 (1/3): Introduction to Accessibility
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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
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{: .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

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{: .homework} 1/3 Class Participation survey

{: .homework} Homework: Disability Justice Homework Assigned: Pick an access topic and analyze it from a disability justice perspective.

Required: Reading AND Preparation by start of class. Respond to the reading questions by  start of class and Preparation requirements on Ed.


Come to next class prepared to use either switch control, a screen reader, or magnification on your phone.
Accessibility Testing: Read The importance of Manual Accessibility Testing and Respond on Ed


Come to next class prepared with an image you found on the web that does not have ALT text
ALT text: Read about image alt text and watch It's complicated and Respond on Ed

Audio Description: Read What is audio description? from The Audio Description Project and Respond on Ed


Optional

Switches

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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

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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
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{: .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)
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{: .homework} 1/10 Class Participation survey

{: .homework} Homework: Website/app accessibility Assigned: Assess and write a report

Required Readings: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements on Ed

Read: Comparison of different methods for accessibility testing Mateus etal, 2021  and Respond on Ed

Read: About how web semantics are conveyed to screen readers   and Respond on Ed


If you want to dig deeper

Watch: Google Video on Practical Web Accessibility — this video provides a great overview of the Web and how to make web content accessible. Highly recommended as a supplement to what we will cover in class.
Watch: Latte: Use-Case and Assistive-Service Driven Automated Accessibility Testing Framework for Android and read Lies, Damned Lies, Overlays, and Widgets

Read: Semantics for Eye tracking

Watch: Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions

Read: Is your web page accessible? A comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind


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

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{: .homework} Class Participation survey


Required Readings Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements on Ed

Read Anticipate and Adjust Respond on Ed

Read Blurring the Boundaries Between Assistive Tech and Companionship

Read Disability Dongles by Liz Jackson and Respond on Ed


If you want to dig deeper

How To Do Something Good In The Disability Community If You’re Not Disabled
COVID 19 websites violate disability laws
Alexa & Accessibility
Design, Disability and Knowing the 'Other'

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

Data Equity and implicit bias
Beyond automated assessment: Accessible Summative Studies
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
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{: .topic}  5:30-6:00 Introduction to Accessible Evaluation

Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility" loc="evaluation.html" %}
{: .topic}  6:00-6:20 Practice Study Design

Amazon Alexa

Write down a list of accessibility assessment goals (metrics)
Write down a sampling goal (who is included)
Discuss


{: .break}  6:20-6:40
Break / Food
{: .topic}  6:40-7:30 Slides & Discussion:

Slides {% include slide.html title="Designing for and with people with disabilities" loc="designing.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


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{: .homework} Class Participation survey

{: .homework} Finding Accessibility Assigned: Summarize a first person account of an access technology
{: .homework} Post-module Reflection:  Accessibility Basics Reflection


Required Readings Respond  to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements on Ed

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{: .module} # Module 2: Second Wave Accessibility

{: .alert} # DRAFT ALERT: Everything below here is not well defined yet


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Week 5 (1/31): Multi-Person Systems and Access
Learning Goals TBD
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{: .topic 7:50-8:20 Presentations
Presentations: Accessibility Assessment Assignment
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{: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Readings for next week


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Week 6 (2/7): Data Equity
Learning Goals TBD
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{: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Readings for next week


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Week 7 (2/14): Making Accessibility: Fabrication and Physical Computing
Learning Goals TBD
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{: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Post-module Reflection

{: .homework} Readings for next week

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


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Week 8 (2/21): Intersectionality with Race, Gender & Other Identities
Learning Goals TBD
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{: .homework} Readings for next week


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Week 9 (2/28): Sustainability, Urban Access and Housing
Learning Goals TBD
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{: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Readings for next week


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Week 10 (3/7):  Healthcare Technologies & Reproductive Justice
Learning Goals TBD
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{: .lecture} Final project check-in

Process Teams present project status for in-class discussion.

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{: .homework} Class Participation survey
{: .homework} Post-module Reflection

{: .homework} Readings for next week


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Finals week: Final presentations between 3/11 and 3/17 (still TBD)

{: .lecture} Final project presentations


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Optional

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
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