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title: Syllabus --Week 1--
description: Introductory slides about class structure
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# Future of Access Technologies: Syllabus

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# Course learning goals:

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## Access Basics
How do we build accessible systems and interfaces?
- Week 1: Ways of thinking about and designing for accessibility
- Week 2: How we assess whether technology is accessible
- Week 3: Accessible needfinding and evaluation
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# Course learning goals:

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## Access Basics]
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## Second Wave Accessibility
How do we account for access in all of today's technologies?
- Multi person systems
- Mobile systems
- Data Equity: Visualization and Machine Learning
- Making Accessibility: Fabrication and IOT 
- AR/VR 
- ...
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# Course learning goals:

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## Access Basics
## Second Wave Access
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## Third Wave Accessibility
How does technology impact access in all the spaces where disabled people are present?

- Intersectionality with Race, Gender & other identities
- Sustainability
- Housing, Unhoused, and Incarcerated 
- Healthcare technology & reproductive justice
- Higher Education
- ...

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# Where to find what

The class is on the [web]({{site.baseurl}}/index),
  but we have used iframes to connect this to
  [Canvas]({{site.canvas}}). We try to interlink
  everything as much as possible.

- Class discussions and all contact with instructors should happen
either in office hours or through a [class discussion board]({{site.discussion}}) or [staff mailing list]({{site.staff_email}})
- You can also request appointments for further help

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#  Syllabus: Summary of expectations and values (1/2)

- **Sharing**: Yes, but don't copy
- **Accessibility**: This course is designed to be accessible
- **Inclusivity**: An important value in this class, and in HCI!
- **Language**: I am Jen, or Dr. Mankoff
- **Respect**: This class is a compact between us based on respect

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#  Syllabus: Summary of expectations and values (2/2)

- **Healthy Environment**: Your health/mental health are important and we have tried to
structure the class to support you (e.g. up to 5  late days without questions asked).
If you need larger accommodations for any reason, consider working with
[DRS](https://depts.washington.edu/uwdrs/) as well as us. 

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- **Academic Integrity**: A course value and requirement See our [Academic Conduct]({{site.baseurl}}/academic-conduct) page for more details

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# More on Academic Integrity

Don't plagiarize. If you use someone else's text, quote them and reference them. 

In addition to being expected based on UW policy, this is a form of [*Citational Justice*](nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00793-1)
 and thus an important xepression of disability justice values in our class. Therefore
- If you plagiarize you will receive a 0 on participation for that assignment
- If you plagiarize on any assignment, you will receive a non-competent on your disability justice competency 

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# Is this class hybrid?

**No**, it is intended to be attended, in person, by everyone in the class

**Yes**, because:
- It is possible to be full remote *with permission of the instructor*
- It is expected you will be remote in any particular week for the following reasons:
   - If you have cold or flu symptoms or suspect you have COVID
   - If you have caregiving obligations 
   - If you have mental health concerns or any accessibility needs that are best met by being remote
   
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# How do I participate remotely?

1. You watch the whole video for the class you are remote for. This does *not* have to be done live
2. You contribute an Ed post to every small group discussion linked to in the [class schedule]({{site.baseurl}}/schedule)
3. You fill out the remote participation survey portion of the [class participation survey](https://forms.gle/qcjc5fSNSAVeE5pK9)

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# Competency Based Grading

We have a set of core learning goals in this class. If you learn them all, you get an A. Competencies make up 80% of your grade.

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Assignment completion is also required. This is 10% of your grade. You have up to four late days for assignment completion, and this only looks at whether you did everything, not how well you did it.

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Finally, Effort is 10% of your grade. This includes 
- Participation in discussion and exercises (self reported)
- Participation in discussion outside of class (based on submissions to Ed)

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# More detail on competencies

This approach was selected because it prioritizes *accessibility* and *justice* and *flexibility* for students.

You can find all of the competencies under "[Outcomes](https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1619674/outcomes)" on canvas

They fall into three categories
- Accessibility Compliance (e.g. accessibility checking)
- Accessible Media and Documents (e.g. writing alt text, presenting accessibly)
- Disability Awareness and Justice (How you pick problems and do disability centered design)

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This is the first time I'm grading this way, so we may make adjustments based on how it goes. Feedback welcome.
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# How Competencies Translate to Grades
On any competency, you may be rated as below competent, competent or excellent

In each category (accessibility compliance; accessible media and documents; and disability awareness and justice) your grade is calculated based on how many "excellent" and "competent" scores you have
 - all execellents in all categories is a 4.0; 
 - 1 excellent in all categories is a 3.2. 
 - 1  not competent in any competency in a category is 3.2
 - More not competents drops your grade further
 
After each category is graded, these grades are averaged.

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#  Programming Expectations

- Programming is  only required the final project, which you define
- As such, there are no specific language or platform requirements
- Small programming exercises may also happen in class  using languages such as JavaScript and python. Contact the instructors if you have any concerns about this.

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# Field Trip

## [Assignments]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments)