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)
{: .lecture} Introduction to Accessibility Technology
{: .lecture} Introduction to Accessibility Technology
: **Learning Goals** Overview of accessibility and its relationship to computation; Introduction to Disability studies; History of disability rights
: **Learning Goals** Overview of accessibility and its relationship to computation; Introduction to Disability studies; History of disability rights
: **Slides** {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Inclusive Design" loc="wk01/inclusive-design.html" %}
: **Slides** {% include slide.html title="Introduction to Inclusive Design" loc="wk01/inclusive-design.html" %}
**Take-home Exercise**
**Take-home Exercise**
You will need to submit the [learning goals homework](assignments/hw0-learninggoals) homework by next class.
You will need to submit the [learning goals homework](assignments/hw0-learninggoals) homework by next class.
{: .lecture} Guest lecture
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: Lecture by Kurt Johnson, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine on Disability Policy and Law
Guest lecture by Kurt Johnson, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine on Disability Policy and Law
: **Reading**: Bobby Silverstein. Emerging Disability Policy Framework
: **Reading** possible Reading: Bobby Silverstein. Emerging Disability Policy Framework
**Prep for [Activity 1](assignments/act1-finding-accessibility.html)**
**Prep for [Activity 1](assignments/act1-finding-accessibility.html)**
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# Week 2 (4/5): Screen readers
# Week 2 (4/5): Screen readers
**Readings and other Preparation** The first week's reading will be lengthy. This is a first introduction to disability and an important starting place through providing a disability studies perspective up front in the class.
**Readings and other Preparation** The first week's reading will be lengthy. This is a first introduction to disability and an important starting place through providing a disability studies perspective up front in the class.
: **Reading**
: **Reading**
-[Disability Studies as a source of critical inquiry...](https://make4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/MankoffAssets2010.pdf)
-[Disability Studies as a source of critical inquiry...](https://make4all.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/MankoffAssets2010.pdf)
- Optional: [semantics to screen readers](https://alistapart.com/article/semantics-to-screen-readers/)
- Optional: [semantics to screen readers](https://alistapart.com/article/semantics-to-screen-readers/)
- Optional: [rethinking web accessibility on Windows](https://www.marcozehe.de/rethinking-web-accessibility-on-windows/)
- Optional: [rethinking web accessibility on Windows](https://www.marcozehe.de/rethinking-web-accessibility-on-windows/)
{: .lecture} Introduction to screen readers and begin forming teams for homework 1.
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Introduction to screen readers and begin forming teams for homework 1.
: **Learning Goals** Understand a disability-centered perspective and its impact on designing accessibility technologies, get introduced to screen readers.
: **Learning Goals** Understand a disability-centered perspective and its impact on designing accessibility technologies, get introduced to screen readers.
**Activity 1 presentations**
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Activity 1 presentations
# Week 3 (4/12): Screen Readers/Switch Access
**Readings and other Preparation**
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-[Access Lab - the Switch](https://axesslab.com/switches/)
# Week 3 (4/12): Screen Readers/Switch Access
-[SAK: Scanning ambiguous keyboard for efficient one-key text entry](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1806923.1806925)
**Readings and other Preparation**
- Optional viewing: [Switch Control overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQKEE9nI1lk)
-[Access Lab - the Switch](https://axesslab.com/switches/)
- Optional viewing: [One thumb to rule them all](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhHwk9qSvI)
-[SAK: Scanning ambiguous keyboard for efficient one-key text entry](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1806923.1806925)
- Optional viewing: [Switch Control overview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQKEE9nI1lk)
{: .lecture} Introduction to switch access.
- Optional viewing: [One thumb to rule them all](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BhHwk9qSvI)
: **Learning Goals** Introduction to switch controls and building interfaces for use by people with limited mobility
{: .lecture} Introduction to switch access.
**Slides TBD**
: **Learning Goals** Introduction to switch controls and building interfaces for use by people with limited mobility
**Activity2 and HW1 work time.**
**Slides TBD**
{: .lecture} Guest lecture
**Activity2 and HW1 work time.**
: Lecture by Brett Humphrey, Microsoft on screen readers
: **Learning Goals** Practical advice on screen readers
{: .lecture} Guest lecture by Brett Humphrey, Microsoft on screen readers
: **Learning Goals** Practical advice on screen readers
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# Week 4 (4/19): Accessible Media
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We will learn about best practices to make certain types of media accessible.
# Week 4 (4/19): Accessible Media
- Intro to alt-text and audio description.
We will learn about best practices to make certain types of media accessible.
- Describe a video.
- Intro to alt-text and audio description.
- Intro to captions.
- Describe a video.
- Intro to captions.
**Readings**
-[What is audio description?](https://www.acb.org/adp/ad.html)
**Readings and other Preparation**
-[Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions](https://amypavel.com/papers/rescribe.pdf)([talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmyPmT5T0PY))
- Readings TBD.
{: .lecture} TBD lecture on intro to audio descriptions, captions and alt-text.
{: .lecture} TBD lecture on intro to audio descriptions, captions and alt-text.
: **Slides**
: **Slides**
TBD
TBD
{: .lecture} Homework 1 final presentations.
{: .lecture} homework 1 final presentations.
: **Slides** to be uploaded by students on canvas
: **Slides** to be uploaded by students on canvas
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# Week 5 (4/26): More alt text, captions and sound recognition
# Week 5 (4/26): More alt text, captions or sound recognition
**Readings**
**Readings and other Preparation**
-[Its complicated: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender and Disability](https://guoanhong.com/papers/CHI21-ImageDescriptions.pdf)
-[Its complicated: Negotiating Accessibility and (Mis)Representation in Image Descriptions of Race, Gender and Disability](https://guoanhong.com/papers/CHI21-ImageDescriptions.pdf)
-[SoundWatch: Exploring Smartwatch-based Deep Learning Approaches to Support Sound Awareness for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Users](https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~djain/img/portfolio/Jain_SoundWatch_ASSETS2020.pdf)
-[vital corona virus is failing the blind and visually impaired](https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ag9wb/vital-coronavirus-information-is-failing-the-blind-and-visually-impaired)
{: .lecture} Work time and intro to homework 2 (TBD).
: **Slides** TBD
{: .lecture} Tutorial on machine learning, intro to homework 2, and work time.
: **Slides** TBD
{: .lecture} Guest Lecture
: Lecture by [Cynthia Bennett](https://www.bennettc.com/)
{: .lecture} Guest Lecture
: Lecture by [Cynthia Bennett](https://www.bennettc.com/)
**Slides** TBD
**Slides** TBD
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# Week 6 (5/3): Activism, advocacy and power
# Week 6 (5/3): Activism, advocacy and power
**Readings**
**Readings**:
-[How To Do Something Good In The Disability Community If You’re Not Disabled](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewpulrang/2020/12/16/how-to-do-something-good-in-the-disability-community-if-youre-not-disabled/?sh=4befcb377d7f)
-[How To Do Something Good In The Disability Community If You’re Not Disabled](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewpulrang/2020/12/16/how-to-do-something-good-in-the-disability-community-if-youre-not-disabled/?sh=4befcb377d7f)
- more readings coming soon!
- more readings coming soon!
{: .lecture} Homework 2 check-in
**Lecture content coming soon!**
: lecture **We will have office hours with each team with a progress update on their HW2**.
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{: .lecture} Accessibility work, activism and advocacy
# Week 7 (5/10): Content coming soon!
: **Lecture content coming soon!**
{: .lecture} Project Proposals
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: **Process** Refer to the proposal portion of the [project spec]({{site.baseurl}}/assignments/project).
# Week 7 (5/10): Corporate accessibility
{: .lecture} lecture content coming soon.
{: .lecture} Final presentations for homework 2.
: **Slides** TBD
: **Process** Refer to the presentation component of homework 2 spec, coming soon..
{: .lecture} Guest lecture
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: Guest lecture by Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer at Microsoft.
: process **Please be prepared to present your project idea for five minutes**. The class will discuss and provide feedback on this.
{: .lecture} Lecture content coming soon!
{: .lecture} Accessibility's overlooked spaces
: **Readings (tentative)**
: slides **coming soon**
-[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.
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# Week 9 (5/24): Accessibility checking!
# Week 10 (5/31): Content coming soon!
{: .lecture} Final project check-in
Mid-project Reports (Wednesday)
: Process **teams present project status for in-class discussion**.
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{: .lecture} Accessibility testing
# Finals week: Final presentations.
: Slides **coming soon**
: **Readings (tentative)**
Logistics to be decided soon, but sessions will happen during class time.
-[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.
-[People with Disabilities say this AI is making the web worse for them](https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7az74/people-with-disabilities-say-this-ai-tool-is-making-the-web-worse-for-them)
-[Screen Recognition: Creating Accessibility Metadata for Mobile Applications from Pixels](https://docs-assets.developer.apple.com/ml-research/papers/screen-recognition-chi-2021.pdf)
