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layout: default
title: Schedule
description: Class schedule and links to lectures, readings and assignments
warning: draft
  • TOC {:toc}

{: .module} # Module 1: Accessibility Basics :

{: .week}

Week 1 (3/27 & 3/29): Introduction to Accessibility

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • 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
  • Plain Language {% enddetails %}

{% details Week Plan %}

{: .topic} Monday: Introduction to Accessibility & Disability : Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Accessibility" loc="accessibility.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? (share)

{: .topic} Overview of course : Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Course" loc="introduction.html" %} Introduction to course syllabus & assignments

{: .topic} Wednesday: Disability Justice : Slides {% include slide.html title="In Class Activities" loc="accessibility-activities.html" %}

{: .activity} Skill Goal: Analyze a piece of technology from a Disability Rights perspective : Small Group Discussion Analysis of the iPhone (share)

{: .activity} Skill Goal: Analyze a topic from a disability justice perspective : Small Group Discussion Analyze masking from a disability justice perspective (share)

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey :

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

{: .homework} Readings for next week :

{: .week}

Week 2 (4/3 & 4/5): 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

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • 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 {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic} Monday: 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. (google doc)

{: .topic} Monday: 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 (share

{: .topic} Wednesday: 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. (share)

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey :

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

{: .homework} Readings for next week :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 3 (4/10 & 4/12): Accessibility Assessment 2: Tradeoffs and Advanced Methods

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • 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.
  • How to present accessibly {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .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? share

{: .activity} In Class Work Time : Work on your website writeup.

{: .topic} Wednesday: Best Practices for Improving Accessibility : Slides {% include slide.html title="Best Practices: Improving Accessibility" loc="best-practices.html" %}

Discussion of Disability Dongle Paper

{: .topic} First Person Accounts & Finding Acessibility Assignment : Introduction to Finding Accessibility

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{: .homework} Finding Accessibility Assigned: Summarize a first person account of an access technology :

{: .homework} Plain Language Assigned: Write something up in plain language. :

{: .homework} Post-module Reflection: Accessibility Basics Reflection :

{: .homework} Readings for next week :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 4 (4/17 & 4/19): AT Around us Presentations + Fabrication Start

{% details Learning Goals %}

{% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan: %}

{: .topic } Monday: AT Around Us Presentations : Accessibility Assessment Assignment

{: .topic } Wednesday: Fabrication and Accessibility : Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to 3D Printing and Physical Computing" loc="3dprinting.html" %}

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey {: .homework} Create an SVG for an accessible laser cut object :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 5 (4/24 & 4/26): Fabrication & Physical Computing for Accessibility

{% details Learning Goals %}

Work with a microcontroller & sensors to actuate accessibility features

{% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan: %}

{: .topic } Monday: In Fab Lab; Manufacture & print laser cut designs; Work with Microcontroller : Slides TBD

{: .topic } Wednesday: Continued Work with Microcontroller; Hand in finished laser cut assignment : Slides TBD

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey {: .homework} Readings for next week :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 6 (5/1 & 5/3): Data Equity

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • Bias in Machine Learning
    • What is Machine Learning (ML)?
    • What are the components of ML?
    • How do we collect data? Who do we collect the data from?
    • Is the data "good"?
    • How do we minimize disability bias?
  • Accessible Data Visualizations
    • What are the commonly-used techniques to make data visualizations accessible?
    • What are the pros and cons of these techniques?
    • What are some of the nuances in making data visualizations accessible? {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic} Monday: Bias in Machine Learning : Slides {% include slide.html title="Bias in Machine Learning" loc="bias-in-machine-learning.html" %}

{: .topic} Wednesday: Accessible Data Visualizations : Slides {% include slide.html title="Accessible Data Visualizations" loc="accessible-data-viz.html" %}

{: .topic} Final Project Discussion : Final Project

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey : {: .homework} Final Project presentation preparation :

{: .homework} Readings for next week :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 7 (5/8 & 5/10): Accessible Needfinding and Evaluation

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • 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
    1. Data Equity and implicit bias
    2. Beyond automated assessment: Accessible Summative Studies
    3. 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 {% enddetails %}

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic} Monday: Introduction to Accessible Evaluation : Slides {% include slide.html title="Presenting Accessibly" loc="presenting-acessibly.html" %} Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility" loc="evaluation.html" %}

{: .topic} Monday: Practice Study Design : Amazon Alexa 1. Write down a list of accessibility assessment goals (metrics) 2. Write down a sampling goal (who is included) 3. Discuss

{: .topic} Monday: Qualitative Design : Slides {% include slide.html title="Designing for and with people with disabilities" loc="designing.html" %} Slides {% include slide.html title="Plain Language" loc="plain-language.html" %}

{: .topic} Wednesday: Final Project Presentations :

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 8 (5/15 & 5/17): Chronic Illness

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{: .topic } 6:30-7:30 : Accessibility in Chronic Illness: guest lecturers: Emma McDonnell and Kelly Mack

{: .topic } 7:30-8:30 : Group project check ins (you can leave if your group is meeting with Jen at a different time)

{% enddetails %}

{% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

{% enddetails %}

{: .module} # Module 3: Sustainability, Urban Access and Housing

{: .week}

Week 9 (5/22 & 5/24): Sustainability, Urban Access and Housing

{% details Class Plan %}

{: .topic } 5:30-6:30 Traumatic Brain Injury and Incarceration : guest lecturer: Mark Harniss

{: .break} 6:30-6:45 : Break / Food

{: .topic } 6:45- ~8:00 : Slides {% include slide.html title="Sustainability and Accessibility" loc="sustainability.html" %}

{: .topic } 7:30-8:30 : Group project check ins (you can leave if your group is meeting with Jen at a different time)

{% enddetails %} {% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey {: .homework} End of Module survey :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Week 10 (5/31): TBD

{% details Learning Goals: STILL TBD %} {% enddetails %}

MONDAY IS A HOLIDAY

{% details Class Plan: STILL TBD %} ...

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{% details Preparation for next week %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

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{: .week}

Finals week: Final presentations -- time TBD

{: .lecture} Final project presentations :

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