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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 %}

{% 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 :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% 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} Class Participation survey :

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

{% enddetails %}

Everything after here is draft...

{: .draft}

{% details Draft Part of Schedule %}

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Module 2: Post GUI Accessibility

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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) :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{% details Wednesday 10/25: Introduction to Designing for Accessibility %} : Slides {% include slide.html title="Designing for and with people with disabilities" loc="designing.html" %}

{: .homework} Technology Review Assigned: Write a group report about your assessment :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

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

{% details Friday 10/27: TBD %}

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

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?

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?

Learn about how to make AR/VR interfaces and games accessible {% enddetails %}

{% details Monday 10/30: Data Equity %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="Data Equity" loc="bias-in-machine-learning.html" %}

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

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{% details Wednesday 11/1: AR/VR Accessibility %}

Slides {% include slide.html title="AR/VR Accessibility" loc="arvr.html" %}

{: .homework} Technology Review Assigned: Make something (post-gui) more accessible :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} Practice with making data accessible

{% enddetails %}

{% details Friday 11/3: Technology-Implementation Meetings %}

Check in to make sure you have a plan and it is do-able

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{: .week}

Module 3: Everything Everywhere All at Once

{: .week}

Week 7 (11/6 - 11/10): Fabrication

{% details Learning Goals %}

  • Work with laser cutting to make accessible technology
  • Learn about fabrication tools and techniques {% enddetails %}

{% details Monday 11/6: What's the best way to Assess a Website?%}

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

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

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{% details Wednesday 11/8: Making a Laser Cut Book Opener %} Work in class on this

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

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} Finish making laser cuttable designs and print

{% enddetails %}

Friday 11/10: HOLIDAY

{: .holiday}

{: .week}

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

{% 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 11/13: Group Formation %}

In class exercise to form final project groups

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

{: .homework} Class Participation survey : {% enddetails %}

{% details Wednesday 11/15: Chronic Illness and Accessibility %}

Slides TBD

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

{: .homework} Final Project Handin :

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

{% details Thursday: Section %} Work in groups on final projects

{% enddetails %}

{% details Friday 11/17: Sustainability %}

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

{: .homework} Class Participation survey :

{% enddetails %}

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

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}

{: .week}

Week 10 (12/4--12/8): 1:1 Project Meetings / TBD

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

{% details Monday: Richard Ladner guest lecture %} {% enddetails %}

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

{: .lecture} Final project presentations :

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 %}

{% details topics not covered %}

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

{% enddetails %}