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

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Module 1: Accessibility Basics

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Week 1 (9/27 - 9/29): Introduction to Disability & Accessibility

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • What is Disability?
  • What is Accessibility?
  • What are Accessibility Technologies? {% enddetails %}
{% details Wednesday: Overview of course & Introduction to Disability %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Course" loc="introduction.html" %}

{: .homework} Required Reading and Reflection

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} Discussion and demos of access technologies {% enddetails %}

{% details Friday: Accessibility Technology %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="Accessibility" loc="accessibility.html" %}

{: .homework} AT Around Us Assigned: Find Accessibility Technologies

{% enddetails %}

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Week 2 (10/2 - 10/6): Accessible Documents & Disability Justice

{% details Learning Goals %} We will start understanding how to make documents accessible

  • How to present accessibly
  • Get comfortable with basic image description (images, people)
  • Plain Language And study disability justice
  • Understand models for disability-centered design
  • What is Disability Justice {% enddetails %}

{% details Monday: Accessible Presentations and Plain Language%}

  • Slides {% include slide.html title="Accessible Presentations and Presenting Accessibly" loc="presenting-accessibly.html" %}
  • Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Disability Justice" loc="disability-justice.html" %}
{: .homework} Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

{% enddetails %}

{% details Wednesday: Plain Language and Disability Justice %}

  • Finish Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Disability Justice" loc="disability-justice.html#17" %}
  • Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Plain Language" loc="plain-language.html" %}
{: .homework} Disability Justice Homework Assigned: Pick an access topic and analyze it from a disability justice perspective.

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} Practice with Plain Language {% enddetails %}

{% details Friday: AT Around Us Presentations %}

  • Zoom only day (rather than having three different physical rooms)
  • We will break up into three groups, each with a different zoom link so that we can record your presentations
  • Look for an Ed announcement on this

{% enddetails %}

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Week 3 (10/9-10/13): Guidelines and Assessment

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • What are the current accessibility standards
  • 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
  • More advanced accessibility techniques
    • Differences between Image description, Diagram description and UI description
    • Video description & Captioning
    • Math, Tables & other elements (including custom interactors) {% enddetails %}

{% details Monday: Accessibility Testing %}

  • Slides {% include slide.html title="Accessibility Testing" loc="testing.html" %}
{: .homework} Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

{% enddetails %}

{% details Wednesday: Accessibility Standards %}

{: .prepare} Come Prepared
Come to class with an image, diagram, or other graphic you want to describe

Slides {% include slide.html title="Accessibility Standards & Media Accessibility" loc="assessment.html" %}

{: .homework} Website Testing Homework Assigned: Assess a website or app and generate UARS for it

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} Practice with Accessibility Assessment {% enddetails %}

{% details Friday: More Website Standards %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="More Accessibility Standards" loc="assessment2.html" %}

{% enddetails %}

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Week 4 (10/16-10/20): Building & Remediating Accessible Interfaces

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • How accessibility works under the hood
  • More on navigation and its impact
  • What are the trade offs between different tools? {% enddetails %}

{% details Monday: What's the best way to Assess a Website?%}

Slides {% include slide.html title="Comparing Automated Testing and Manual Testing" loc="comparing-approaches.html" %}

{: .homework} Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

{% enddetails %}

{% details Wednesday: How to Build Accessible Interfaces %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="How to build for accessibility" loc="best-practices.html" %}

{: .homework} Website Report Assigned: Write a group report about your assessment

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} Group work on Report {% enddetails %}

{% details Friday: More Website Standards %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="More Accessibility Standards" loc="assessment2.html" %}

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

{% enddetails %}

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Week 5 (10/23 - 10/27): Accessible Need-finding 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 Monday 10/23: Introduction to Assessing Accessibility %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="Guest Lecture: Avery Mack: Assessing Accessibility" loc="evaluation.html" %}

{: .homework} Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

{% details Jaipreet Virdi Bio and Talk Abstract%}

Jaipreet Virdi, Associate Professor, Department of History at the University of Delaware, is a scholar activist. Her first book, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Psyche, The Wellcome Collection, and the New Internationalist. She is on Twitter as @jaivirdi

How do disabled people use their technologies to draw attention to, rather than hide, their disability? The disabled gaze is an autonomous claiming of identity that rejects typical perceptions of disability as objectifying or exploitative. It offers a way to examines how disabled people, past and present, asserted themselves—through art, for instance—or challenged medical assumptions about their bodies.

What happens when we center the disabled gaze in our creations of the future? In this talk, Dr. Jaipreet Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled changes the ways people view the world and the things they create. Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled gaze, are centered first and foremost.

The lecture will be accompanied by an ASL interpreter and will include CART captioning. {% enddetails %}

{% enddetails %}

{% details Wednesday 10/25: Conversation with Jaipreet Virdi %}

  • Dr. Jaipreet Virdi will be lecturing on 10/24 at 6:30pm on "The Disabled Gaze: Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future". Please contact the instructors if you would like to attend -- we have 25 tickets to give out
  • In addition, she will join us in class for a conversation about disability and technology and the disabled gaze. This is a chance for you to bring questions about her and her work.
{: .homework} Homework
Technology Review Assigned: Write a group report about your assessment

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} TBD {% enddetails %}

{% details Friday 10/27: Introduction to Designing for Accessibility %}

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

{% enddetails %}

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Module 2: Post GUI Accessibility

Everything after here is draft...

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{% details Draft Part of Schedule %}

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Week 6 (10/30 - 11/3): Accessible Visualizations & AR/VR

{% 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?