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{: .module} # Module 1: Accessibility Basics

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Week 1 (3/27 & 3/29): Introduction to Accessibility

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• What is Accessibility? Disability?
• What is the difference between Disability studies, Disability Justice; and various models of disability
• History of disability rights
• Understand models for disability-centered design
• Plain Language {% enddetails %}

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{: .topic} Monday: Introduction to Accessibility & Disability

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

{: .activity} Skill Goal: Learn how accommodations can make a meeting more inclusive

In class Exercise Put your accommodation needs into PollEverywhere ; discuss what comes up and what else might be relevant

Small Group Discussion How would you implement this in your workplace? (share)

{: .topic} Overview of course

Slides {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Course" loc="syllabus.html" %} Introduction to course syllabus & assignments

{: .topic} Wednesday: Disability Justice

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

{: .activity} Skill Goal: Analyze a piece of technology from a Disability Rights perspective

Small Group Discussion Analysis of the iPhone (share)

{: .activity} Skill Goal: Analyze a topic from a disability justice perspective

Small Group Discussion Analyze masking from a disability justice perspective (share)

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{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey

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

{: .homework} Readings for next week

• Required: Reading AND Preparation by start of class. Respond to the reading questions by start of class and Preparation requirements.
  • Come to next class prepared to use either switch control, a screen reader, or magnification on your phone.
  • Accessibility Testing: Read The importance of Manual Accessibility Testing and Respond
  • Come to next class prepared with an image you found on the web that does not have ALT text
  • ALT text: Read about image alt text and watch It's complicated and Respond
  • Audio Description: Read What is audio description? from The Audio Description Project and Respond
• Optional
  • Switches

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Week 2 (4/3 & 4/5): Accessibility Assessment 1: Guidelines and Assessment

{: .prepare} Come Prepared

Come to class with an image, diagram, or other graphic you want to describe; Be prepared (install and try out) one of: switch control, a screen reader, or magnification on your phone

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• What are the current accessibility standards
• Get comfortable with basic image description (images, people)
• 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 {% enddetails %}

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{: .topic} Monday: Introduction to Assessing Accessibility & Practice

Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility" loc="assessment.html" %}

{: .activity} Skill Goal: Image Description

In class Exercise Break into small groups and show each other the inaccessible images you found. Work on a short and long description appropriate to your image type. (google doc)

{: .topic} Monday: Guidelines 1.1, 1.2, and Automated Assessment

Slides Continue {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility Cont..." loc="assessment.html#45" %}

{: .activity} Skill Goal: Automated Assessment

In class Exercise Use WebAIM Wave to assess the Seattle Public Schools Website (share

{: .topic} Wednesday: Guidelines 1.3, 1.4, and Manual Assessment

Slides Continue {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility Cont..." loc="assessment.html#52" %}

{: .activity} Skill Goal: Use Accessibility Technologies to assess the same website

Slides {% include slide.html title="Assessing Accessibility Cont..." loc="assessment.html#65" %}

In class Exercise Break into small groups. Each pick one of the following and try out the website

• Screen reader
• Switch input
• Magnification

Try to find something you didn't find with an automated tool. (share)

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{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey

{: .homework} Website/app accessibility Assigned: Assess and write a report

{: .homework} Readings for next week

• Required Readings: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements.
  • Read: About how web semantics are conveyed to screen readers and Respond
  • Read: Is your web page accessible? A comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind and Respond
  • Read Design, Disability and Knowing the 'Other' and Respond
  • Read Disability Dongles by Liz Jackson and Respond and Respond
• If you want to dig deeper
  • 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
  • Watch: Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions

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Week 3 (4/10 & 4/12): Accessibility Assessment 2: Tradeoffs and Advanced Methods

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• What are the tradeoffs between different tools?
• Beginning to look at study design by example
• More advanced accessibility techniques
  • Differences between Image description, Diagram description and UI description
  • Video description & Captioning
  • Math, Tables & other elements (including custom interactors)
  • Navigation and its impact on Accessibility; how to set up proper header structures.
• How to present accessibly {% enddetails %}

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{: .activity} Discussion: Value of Cumulative Assessment

In class Exercise Find the students who assessed the same website as you. Talk about the UARs you generated. Did you find different problems from other students? Why do you think you did, or did not, find different problems? share

{: .activity} In Class Work Time

Work on your website writeup.

{: .topic} Wednesday: Best Practices for Improving Accessibility

Slides {% include slide.html title="Best Practices: Improving Accessibility" loc="best-practices.html" %}

Discussion of Disability Dongle Paper

{: .topic} First Person Accounts & Finding Acessibility Assignment

Introduction to Finding Accessibility

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{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey

{: .homework} Finding Accessibility Assigned: Summarize a first person account of an access technology

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

{: .homework} Readings for next week

• Required: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements.
  • Consumer-Grade Fabrication and Its Potential to Revolutionize Accessibility, CACM 2019 and Respond

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Week 4 (4/17 & 4/19): AT Around us Presentations + Fabrication Start

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{: .topic } Monday: AT Around Us Presentations

Accessibility Assessment Assignment

{: .topic } Wednesday: Fabrication and Accessibility

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

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{% details Preparation for next week %} {: .homework} Class Participation survey {: .homework} Create an SVG for an accessible laser cut object

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Week 5 (4/24 & 4/26): Fabrication & Physical Computing for Accessibility