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6 merge requests!12Accessibility website jen summer work,!9Q access 24 sp,!8Q access 24 sp,!5Latest update from Spring 2023,!4Latest update after pmp class,!3Updated content for week 3 and week 4 (week 4 still needs work)
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assigned: May 5, 2021
due:
- <strong>Discussion post on canvas with ideas</strong> May 10, 2021
- <strong>Discussion post on canvas with ideas</strong> before class on May 10, 2021
- <strong>Email staff about final teams</strong> May 12, 2021
- <strong>Submit one page abstract on canvas</strong> May 17, 2021
- <strong>Submit slides on canvas and present your idea and approach in class for critique</strong> May 24, 2021
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The goal of your final project is to explore an accessibility issue in more depth than you’ve been able to do in our projects so far. In choosing this project, you may want to draw from personal expertise, literature, or user data should you have access to it.
Your final project will have three phases:
Your final project will have four phases:
# Idea pitch and team formation
By May 10, 2021, you will make a discussion post with an idea of your choosing, or express interest on one of the ideas posted by the staff or by other students on [Canvas](https://canvas.uw.edu/courses/1465814/discussion_topics/6329593) before class. *Every student needs to make a discussion post*. We will form breakout groups in class on May 10 and help you form teams. You are encouraged to continue conversations on Canvas or in a platform of your choosing and form teams.
# Proposal
*Proposal*: Your proposal be a slide deck with 5 slides that describe your
## Finalizing team formation
By May 12 2021, please email the course staff following up on any conversation and with a *final list of team members*. Please also fill these details in this spreadsheet. *every team must email* the class staff. We do not anticipate any changes in teams at this point, but we can work with you on a case-by-case basis if there is a need to change teams. Please indicate this in your email to us.
# proposal
By May 17 2021, Please submit a one page abstract in an accessible document. Here is an outline of things we expect in the document:
1. Describe your project.
2. What is the accessibility problem you are trying to solve? Please also briefly state the importance of this problem to the disability community.
3. Report on the status of your team formation. Who are your team members? If you are working by yourself on the project, please indicate this in your proposal. You should have reached out to us and received approval to work solo by this point.
# Milestone one presentation
On May 23 2021, you will submit a slide deck with six slides that describe your progress with the project. You will present these slides in class. The slides should contain:
- What access gap are you trying to address?
- Promise: How the world will be better based on your project?
- Obstacle: Why we don’t have this already?
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- Related work: It should also include a related work section with at least 5 references showing some evidence for the importance of this problem. This evidence should be informed by perspectives or your end users, people with disabilities.
- Timeline: Finally, it should include a timeline showing that this is feasible.
*Development*: We will check in on projects in part of class and/or office hours on a weekly basis to help provide guidance about progress on the milestones laid out in your timeline
# Midterm Writeup
Midway through the project you will turn in a brief update to your project. This should included an up-to-date written version of your promise, obstacle and solution (1-3 paragraphs) and a related work section, also updated based on feedback (3-4 paragraphs). In total this should be less than a page long.
# Final Project Writeup
The final 2-page report should be in the 2-column [CHI template format](https://chi2020.acm.org/authors/chi-proceedings-format/)
*Development*: We will check in on projects in part of class and/or office hours on a weekly basis to help provide guidance about progress on the milestones laid out in your timeline. Please drop by office hours if you need guidance on any aspect of your project. The course staff can work with you on a case-by-case basis if you are unable to attend office hours and would like to meet at a different time.
Requirements for this are below. In addition you should follow the writing guidelines put out by [SIGACCESS for writing about disability](https://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/accessible-writing-guide/)
# Final Project deliverables
On june 9, 2021, you will turn-in the final set of deliverables. These are:
- a public-facing website containing a write-up of your project.
- a slide deck presenting your work.
- a presentation of this slide deck in the scheduled final exam time for your class (June 9 6:30-8:20PM).
In addition, you will participate in a poster session.
## website
You will make an accessible, public-facing webpage. [Here is an example tool from Microsoft](https://accessibilityinsights.io/docs/en/web/overview/) that will help you check for accessibility of your page. [Here is an article](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/08/accessibility-chrome-devtools/) talking about ways to do this using Chrome's DevTools. We recognise that it may not be possible to produce a website with zero accessibility bugs if you are using built-in frameworks; while that should be your goals when designing websites, we expect you to make your best effort and minimize accessibility bugs on your page for this submission. Your webpage should contain the following:
- A brief, three-five minute captioned video motivating your project and describing your solution.
- text content with relevant links. This should contain:
- Introduction– 1-3 paragraphs: Present the promise/ obstacle/ solution for your project— What is the problem you are solving and why is it important to solve it?
- Related Work– 3-4 paragraphs: Talk about relevant work that closely connects with your project.
- Methodology– about 4 paragraphs: What did you do in your project– if you worked with participants: How many people? What did they do? If you implemented a system, or designed something, what did you design?
- Disability Studies Perspective– 1 paragraph: How did a disability studies perspective inform your project?
- learnings and future work -- 1-2 paragraphs: Describe what you learnt and how this can be extended/ built on in the future.
## Poster
Your poster should cover the same basic items as your report, but in much less depth. It should have a section highlighting the key goals of the project, images of what you did and/or pictures that convey study results if you did one, and some explanation of how you accomplished things, as well as mentioning how a disability studies perspective informed your project.
You should follow the writing guidelines put out by [SIGACCESS for writing about disability](https://www.sigaccess.org/welcome-to-sigaccess/resources/accessible-writing-guide/)
It does not need a related work section, and you will want to put your names on it and a big title.
There are several simple options for you to host a public-facing website. You can use github pages to host a one-page website (here is a [link to documentation](https://guides.github.com/features/pages/)). UW CSE also has resources to host websites; here is a [related FAQ](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/FAQ.html).
## Written Document
The report should cover these main sections:
- Introduction — 1-3 paragraphs: Present the promise/ obstacle/ solution for your project — what is the problem you are solving and why is it important to solve it? This can re-use text from your midterm report.
- Related Work — 3-4 paragraphs: Talk about relevant work that closely connects with your project. This can re-use text from your midterm report.
- Methodology — about 1 page: What did you do in your project – If you worked with participants: how many people, what did they do. If you implemented a system, or designed something, what did you design?
- Disability Studies Perspective – 1 Paragraph: How did a disability studies perspective inform your project
- Conclusions — 1-2 paragraphs: describe what you learnt and how can this be extended/built on in the future
- Personal reflection — 1-2 paragraphs, individual and handed in separately: describe what you personally learned from this project, and what your individual contributions were to the team.
## Slides and presentation
You will submit, and present slides in-class. You will follow a similar format as your milestone 1 presentations, but will focus more on your solutions. Presentation time will be decided based on group formation and number of projects. Please ensure that your submitted slides are accessible and that you are making best-effort to present accessibly while staying on-time.
## Important notes and considerations
Language: You will be expected to use best practices in language and presentation. Here is the SIGACCESS guide on this.
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The things we have emphasized in this class, namely a disability studies perspective should be featured in your project as much as possible.
- With respect to disability studies, you should think critically about whether and how your project empowers and gives agency to people with disabilities, as well as the extent to which it expects/engages the larger structural issues around the problem you’re trying to solve
If you don’t have personal experience justifying the choice of problem, it is important to find studies that involved people with disabilities that help justify the sense of your proposed work. It is not feasible to do a full iterative design cycle in this project (and not necessarily an ethical use of the time of people with disabilities), but equally important not to come in with a ‘hero complex’ and simply believe you know what people need.
Your project can include designing and piloting a study, but only if you have significant experience already in this domain since we haven’t really taught that aspect of accessibility in this class. Better to spend time on skills you learned here! In addition, given the number of weeks available, be careful not to overcommit (e.g. creating a significant novel device and a lengthy study!)
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