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hw5: Final Project

Last revised: February 11, 2023
Assigned:
  • TBD
Due:
  • Post and comment on ideas TBD
  • Submit slides on Canvas and present your project in class TBD
  • Checkpoint Meetings with Course Staff TBD
  • Final presentations and deliverables due TBD

The goal of your final project is to build an accessibility technology or make an existing technology more accessible. Some examples of what people have done in the past include:

In choosing this project, you may want to draw from personal expertise, literature, or user data should you have access to it.

Given the number of weeks available, be careful not to overcommit. You must figure out how to fit this all in a brief timeline. In particular, your final project will have four phases, and should be a group project (at least 2 people).

Idea pitch and team formation

By TBD, you will make a discussion post with an idea of your choosing, and comment on at least one of the ideas posted by other students on discussion before class. Every student needs to make a discussion post.

Please prepare a post that addresses the following:

  1. Describe your project.
    • What first person data informed it
    • What will you do? How does it address disability justice?
    • How will you do it? Why is this feasible (timeline, etc)
    • Who is in your group, if you’re working in a team.

Proposal Presentation

On TBD, your group will present a slide deck with up to six slides that describe your proposed project. The slides should contain:

CheckPoints

Development: 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. We will also hold a day of individual meetings with groups in the final week of the quarter.

There will also be a midpoint checkin individually with the class staff; Details TBD.

Final project deliverables

Your final set of deliverables will be:

Slides

You will submit, and present slides in-class. You will follow a similar format as your proposal 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.

Webpage

You will make a (minimum W3C Level A) accessible, public-facing webpage. There are several simple options for you to host a public-facing page, we’ll post more details about that.

You should also follow the writing guidelines put out by SIGACCESS for writing about disability

Your page should contain the following:

Competencies

Your final project will contribute to your competency grade on: