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Module 1: Accessibility Basics
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Week 1 (9/27 - 9/29): Introduction to Disability & Accessibility
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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
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Required
- Read about Disability Dongles and Respond
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If you want to dig deeper
- Defining Article Disability Dongles by Liz Jackson
- {: .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)
- Required
- If you want to dig deeper
- {: .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
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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)
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Required
- Accessibility Testing: Read The Importance of Manual Accessibility Testing and Respond
- Read about creating accessible images and diagrams and Respond
- Find a non-text content on the web that does not have ALT text (something other than a photograph)
- Post a description of the leftmost GUI
- Audio Description: Read What is audio description? (from The Audio Description Project) and Respond
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If you want to dig deeper
- Read about Switches
- Try out the Image ALT Text Tutorial
- Watch: Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions
- Read about Making numbers accessiblen
- {: .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)
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Required
- Read: About how web semantics are conveyed to screen readers and Respond
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If you want to dig deeper
- Read: Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective
- Read: Is your web page accessible? A comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind and Respond
- Read: Comparison of different methods for accessibility testing Mateus etal, 2021
- 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
- {: .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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