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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 and Class Plan %}

Learning Goals

  • What is Disability?
  • What is Accessibility?
  • What are Accessibility Technologies?

Lecture Plan

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

Thursday Section Discussion and demos of access technologies

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

Homework

{: .homework} Required Reading and Reflection :

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

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

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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

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides {% include slide.html title="Accessible Presentations and Presenting Accessibly" loc="presenting-accessibly.html" %}

Monday/Wednesday Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Disability Justice" loc="disability-justice.html" %}

Wednesday Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Plain Language" loc="plain-language.html" %}

Thursday: Section: Practice with Plain Language

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

Homework

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

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

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

{% details Learning Goals and Class Plan%}

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)

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides {% include slide.html title="Accessibility Testing" loc="testing.html" %}

Wednesday

  • {: .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" %}

Thursday Section: Practice with Accessibility Assessment

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

Homework

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

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

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

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Learning Goals

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

Lecture Plan

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

Wednesday Slides {% include slide.html title="Implementing Accessibility" loc="access-trees.html" %} Maybe a hands on exercise. Also discuss Aria

Thursday Section Group work on Report

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

Homework

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

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

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Week 5 (10/23 - 10/27): Accessible Need-Finding and Evaluation

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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

Lecture Plan

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

Wednesday 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.

Friday Slides {% include slide.html title="Best of ASSETS" loc="best-of-assets2023.html" %}

Homework

{: .homework} Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday) : - Attend Jaipreet Virdi's talk at 6:30pm on Tuesday if you're able (ask us for tickets) or read Q&A with Jaipret Virdi by Alice Wong on the Disability Project website.

{% 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 %}

{: .homework} Continued Website Report : {% enddetails %}

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Module 2: Post GUI Accessibility

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Week 6 (10/30 - 11/3): Fabrication

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Learning Goals

  • Work with laser cutting to make accessible technology
  • Learn about fabrication tools and techniques

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to 3D Printing and Physical Computing" loc="3dprinting.html" %}

Wednesday: {% include slide.html title="Brief Introduction to Laser Cutting" loc="laser-cutting.html" %}

Thursday Section IN CSE 022: Finish making laser cuttable designs and print

Friday Discussion with Marco Salsiccia, Senior Native Mobile Accessibility Coach at Deque Systems (formerly a Senior Animator at First Person; and Dr. Michele Williams of M.A.W. Consulting. We will talk about about an industry perspective on accessibility testing and born accessible systems.

Homework

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

{: .homework} Assigned: Accessibility Implementation : {% enddetails %}

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Week 7 (11/6 - 11/10): Accessible AI

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Learning Goals

  • Sources of Bias in AI based systems
  • Applications of AI for Accessibility
  • 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

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides {% include slide.html title="AI and Accessibility" loc="bias-in-machine-learning.html" %}

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

  • Required: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements.

    • Please read Risks and Opportunities in AI-based applications for people with disabilities. Please also use ChatGPT or github copilot to generate

    • A web element such as a link, button, or a small toy webpage. Try to assess the accessibility of this button either using an accessibility technology or an automatic checker. Respond to this post answering the following questions.

      1. Can you think of one algorithmic decision making system that you came across in your day-to-day experiences? How could this system possibly cause harm to people with disabilities?

      2. Describe your experience of generating the HTML code snippet. What did you try to generate? How accessible was it? Is generativeAI ready to help us write code that generates accessible outputs?

  • If you want to go deeper

Wednesday Slides {% include slide.html title="Designing for and with people with disabilities" loc="designing.html" %}; also Discussion of Final Project

{: .homework} Final Project Proposal Assigned: Prepare your final project proposal (individual) :

Thursday: Section: Practice with making data accessible

Friday 11/10: HOLIDAY

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Module 3: Everything Everywhere All at Once

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Week 8 (11/13-11/17): Sustainability & Games

{% details Learning Goals & Plan %}

Learning Goals

  • 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
  • Accessibility and Sustainaibility
    • Disaster response and Access
    • Governmentalitiy and Access
    • Information Economy and Access
  • Accessibility in Games: Why inclusion in eSports matters and how to get there

Lecture Plan

Monday: Group Formation & Feedback Opportunities

In class exercise to form final project groups

Wednesday {% include slide.html title="Sustainability" loc="sustainability.html" %}

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

{: .homework} Group Project Checkpoint Assigned: Group Project Checkpoint :

Thursday: Section Work in groups on final projects

Friday: Esports and Games

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Week 9 (11/20-11/24): Group Checkpoints (Full Group Required)

{% details Group Checkin Plan %} Sign up for a meeting slot with your whole group (details to be announced; slots will overlap class but also extend beyond class hours)

Thursday 11/23 and Friday 11/24: HOLIDAY

{: .holiday} {% enddetails %}

Week 10 (12/4--12/8): Accessible Visualization ++

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Learning Goals

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? Input from you on what to cover!

Monday possible guest lecture from Richard Ladner

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

Wednesday Accessible Data Visualizations

Friday AMA/TBD

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Finals week: Final presentations -- 12/12, late afternoon (around 2:30-4ish)

{: .lecture} Final project presentations :

{: .week} {% details Unused Reading and Ideas %} {% details some additional readings and slides to possibly use %}

{% details slides not in use %} Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility" loc="physical-computing.html" %} {% enddetails %} Slides {% include slide.html title="AR/VR Accessibility" loc="arvr.html" %}

{% details topics not covered %}

  • AR/VR
  • Video conferencing
  • Large gatherings (virtual or hybrid)
  • Online text based support groups
  • Social networks such as twitter or facebook
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Chronic Illness {% enddetails %}

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