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schedule.md 20.46 KiB 
layout: default
title: Schedule
description: Class schedule and links to lectures, readings and assignments
  • TOC {:toc}

{: .module}

Module 1: Accessibility Basics

{: .week}

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 :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} TBD (possibly trying out accessibility technologies) {% enddetails %}

{% details Friday: Accessibility Technology %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="In Class Activities" loc="accessibility.html" %}

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

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

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" %}
  • (if time) start on - Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Plain Language" loc="disability-justice.html" %}

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

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

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

  • Finish Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Plain Language" loc="disability-justice.html" %}
  • 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. :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

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

{% details Friday: AT Around Us Presentations %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

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) :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% 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 and generate UARS for it :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% 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" %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

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) :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}