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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-[algorithmic healthcare](https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/21/17144260/healthcare-medicaid-algorithm-arkansas-cerebral-palsy) "Dobbs’ situation hadn’t improved, but an invisible change had occurred. When the assessor entered Dobbs’ information into the computer, it ran through an algorithm that the state had recently approved, determining how many hours of help she would receive.... The change left Dobbs in a situation she never thought she would be in, as the program she’d relied on for years fell out from below her."
-[access versus cures](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LHNwzLa-88) "is medicine about quality of life or is it about social control?"
-[intimacy](https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/forced-intimacy-an-ableist-norm/) "Forced Intimacy” is a term I have been using for years to refer to the common, daily experience of disabled people being expected to share personal parts of ourselves to survive in an ableist world. This often takes the form of being expected to share (very) personal information with able bodied people to get basic access, but it also includes forced physical intimacy, especially for those of us who need physical help that often requires touching of our bodies."
-[accessibe](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7az74/people-with-disabilities-say-this-ai-tool-is-making-the-web-worse-for-them) "They’re actively marketing ‘Hey, don’t worry about it, don’t worry about learning about accessibility—use our automated tool. And not only does the automated tool not fix things, but it gives companies a reason not to educate their coders,” Chancey Fleet, president of the National Federation of the Blind’s assistive technology trainers division, told Motherboard.
-[accessibe](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7az74/people-with-disabilities-say-this-ai-tool-is-making-the-web-worse-for-them) "They’re actively marketing ‘Hey, don’t worry about it, don’t worry about learning about accessibility—use our automated tool. And not only does the automated tool not fix things, but it gives companies a reason not to educate their coders,” Chancey Fleet, president of the National Federation of the Blind’s assistive technology trainers division, told Motherboard. (Optional [related article](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lies-damned-overlays-widgets-timothy-springer/))
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Assignment greading will be broken into two parts, as described in the [syllabus]({{site.baseurl}}/index.html). The first part will be completeness, which is 10% of your grade. The second part will be borken into competencies. Some of these are assessed only once, some multiple times. Your We have broken these into categories as described below.
Your grade in the class will be based on whether you achieve competency in each of these topics, meaning that by the last time you are assessed, you are above the cutoff for competency.
Your grade in the class will be based on whether you achieve competency in each of these topics, meaning that by the last time you are assessed, you are above the cutoff for competency. In addition, you must complete at least
2/3 of the competencies in a category to pass the class.
-**come to next class prepared** with an image you want to describe
-**come to next class prepared** to use either switch control, a screen reader, or magnification on your phone.
{% details Readings for next week %}
**Necessary**
- Accessibility Testing: Read [The importance of Manual Accessibility Testing](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/09/importance-manual-accessibility-testing/)
- ALT text: Read about [image alt text](https://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/) and watch [It's complicated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By6nzFefcxs)
- Audio Description: Read [What is audio description?](https://adp.acb.org/articles/adprocess.html) from [The Audio Description Project](https://www.acb.org/adp/ad.html)
**Optional**
-[Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions](https://amypavel.com/papers/rescribe.pdf)([talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmyPmT5T0PY))
-[Google Video on Practical Web Accessibility](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x18vEEfpK3g) — 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.
-[Semantics to screen readers](https://alistapart.com/article/semantics-to-screen-readers/)
-[Rethinking web accessibility on Windows](https://www.marcozehe.de/rethinking-web-accessibility-on-windows/)
-[Access Lab - the Switch](https://axesslab.com/switches/)
-[Improving User Experience of Eye Tracking-Based Interfaces](https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3338844)
- Switch Control overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQKEE9nI1lk)
-[One thumb to rule them all](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhHwk9qSvI)
- Switch control intro: [Switch Control overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQKEE9nI1lk); [One thumb to rule them all](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhHwk9qSvI)
**Learning Goals** Assessing the accessibility of documents, websites and apps; Understand how people with disabilities currently use accessibility technologies to access digital content; Learn how to make media accessible (images; GUIs; videos)
**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
{% details Class Plan %}
{% details 5:30-6:00 Introduction to Assessing Accessibility %}
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- Navigation and its impact on Accessibility; how to set up proper header structures.
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{% details 7:30-7:40 Image and Video Description %}
{% details 7:30-7:40 Image Description %}
One aspect of web accessibility is image description. We will practice that in class today.
- Break into small groups
- Work on a description of your image
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{% details 7:50-8:20 %}
{% details 7:50-8:20 Video Description %}
Another aspect of accessibility is video description. We will practice that in class today as well.
- Break into small groups
- Pick a video from [youdescribe.org](https://youdescribe.org/) and work on a description as a group
