Announcements

A feed containing all of the class announcements.

Announcements are also posted on Ed and/or found in slides for class

Week 05 Announcements

Friday Announcements

Feb 6 · 0 min read

Announcements for week 5

Final Project

  • Everything is up now
  • There are significant revisions, so please let us know if you run into any inconsistencies. Our goal is a supportive structure, not stress!
  • Taking a look together at it

Wednesday Announcements

Feb 4 · 3 min read

Updates after TA meeting

1. Regrades are submitted in their own assignment

This is just a logistical thing, but basically we’ll be setting up a new assignment for each competency on Gradescope, which will open once the competency has been evaluated twice.

This means even if you’re just submitting a revised version of something an earlier assignment, you’ll actually submit it to a new Gradescope assignment, which gives us one specific place to check for regrades (rather than it being spread out across multiple locations, which is more error-prone)

Currently Open Competency Re-evaluations (last updated on 2/2):

First-Person Accounts

2. Regrades won’t be graded until after Assignment 4 grades are submitted

This is because of the logistical constraints of a class with just two TAs and assessments needing detailed feedback– basically, we need to prioritize feedback & scores on competencies/assignments that have not already been evaluated for everyone, which will have us fully booked through the end of Assignment 4 (Implementation).

You’re totally free to submit your materials for re-evaluation before this point– just know that we won’t be able to get around to grading them for another couple weeks.

3. You can submit a reasonable number of regrade requests

We debated whether or not to put a hard cap on number of regrades permitted, and ultimately, we’d prefer not to limit the number of requests a student can make, as long as they are legitimate requests demonstrating a genuine attempt at improvement.

Basically, just don’t try to game the system. Don’t submit repeated requests on the same submission, having only made minor tweaks in the hopes that we’ll score it differently this time. We won’t, and actually we won’t even regrade a request that isn’t making an authentic effort.

We reserve the right to rate limit students who we feel are attempting to game the system this way! We do feel this is already a fairly generous system, so please use this system thoughtfully.

Implementation Assignment Deadline is now 2/13; + Change to 2/5 studio

We’ve decided to extend the Implementation assignment, in large part because we need time to grade & give feedback on your Assessment competencies from the Assignment 3 (Assessment) Report. We should have those grades to you by Monday (hopefully), giving you a full workweek until the assignment is due the following Friday.

With this change, we’ve also shifted around the content of our Thursday Sections. This week (i.e., tomorrow) we’ll primarily be using Section as guided work time to get started on Implementation, with a focus on finding meaningful accessibility issues in your selected materials.

Update to Engagement Points

We did the math and realized so far we’ve only presented 5 specific opportunities to earn Engagement Points, which isn’t well-paced with a setup where you need 13 points to get the full +0.25 to your grade. So, we’ve decided to change the total number of Points needed for full marks to 8.

We will continue to share relevant opportunities as they emerge, but we also want to remind folks that one of the best ways to earn these points is to share specific experiences you have or propose small projects/activities related to course content that you would like to complete to demonstrate your engagement and how you are bringing your learning into the “real world”.

Check the Engagement category on Ed to see all the currently listed opportunities.

Monday Announcements

Feb 2 · 1 min read

Announcements for week 5

Implementation Assignment

  • The assignment was updated with a reflection. Since you hadn’t started it I didn’t mark them, but the Last revised date is: 2/2/2026.
  • We’ll talk about details later today

Due Today

Grading Calculation Spreadsheet

  • You can calculate your own grade and send us a note in Ed if you have any questions.
  • We’ll provide an update on engagement points after the team meeting today

Writing credit

Reminder: Writing credit

  • this course optionally allows writing credit
  • you need to tell me you want it
  • you need to be willing to revise this report based on feedback before I send it to the sponsor to get it

Ideas for Engagement credit (more after today’s staff meeting)

Made a new “engagement” channel in Ed with posts you can respond to

Other Engagement things we track

  • Respond to reading questions
  • Respond to class participation threads
  • Participate in person in class
  • … more ideas to come

DEQUEUE courses of interest?

A reminder that if anyone is willing to email help@uw.edu about this with details and cc me that would be great!

Week 04 Announcements

Midterm feedback

Jan 30 · 2 min read

Midterm Feedback (thank you!!)

Grading: Engagement

Some of you have questions about class attendance. This is STRONGLY encouraged, as a form of engagement, but engagement is also up to you. From the syllabus, here are some other ways to receive engagement credits:

  • Share an example of using something in this class somewhere else in your life
  • Provide evidence that you practice or complete an optional in-class assignment at home (such as laser cutting, accessible presenting, etc)
  • Turned in answers to most reading questions
  • Do extra work on an assignment
  • Consistently engage in class, in person

Grading: Effort

Missing work on projects and exercises can reduce your grade. What could affect this?

  • Consistent low performance in group work
  • Turning homework in very late (beyond our flex window)
  • Not turning in work (missing entire pieces of assignments or whole assignments)

Assignment Specifications

Folks mentioned some inconsistencies. Thank you for the feedback, in the survey and before. We are working on this, and will

  • get things out earlier
  • mark updated information clearly on the spec
  • clear list of requiremnts

Arc of the course (great question!)

We added something to the syllabus!

gantt title Course Timeline and Competency Development dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD axisFormat %b %d section Leraning Arc Disability Perspectives: w1, 2026-01-06, 14d Access. Technology: w2, 2026-01-13, 14d Assessment: w34, 2026-01-20, 14d Repair: w5, 2026-02-03, 7d Innovation For and With Disabled People: w610, 2026-02-10, 35d section Competencies First Person (G, I): active, comp4, 2026-01-06, 17d Access. Doc. (G): done, comp2, 2026-01-06, 10d Access. Doc. (I): crit, comp2, 2026-01-20, 17d Dis. Model (G): done, comp3, 2026-01-06, 10d Dis. Model (I): crit, comp3b, 2026-02-03, 10d AT Famil. (G, I): active, comp1, 2026-01-13, 25d Plain Lang. (G): done, comp5, 2026-01-13, 10d Plain Lang. (I): crit, comp5b, 2026-02-15, 20d Access. Assess. (G, I): active, comp6, 2026-01-20, 25d section Assignments AT Around Us: assign1, 2026-01-06, 10d AT Trial: assign2, 2026-01-13, 10d Assessment - UARs: assign3, 2026-01-20, 17d Implementation: assign4, 2026-02-03, 10d Final Project: assign5, 2026-02-10, 35d

Other Requests

  • Final Project: Will be posting updates in the next week, but the general arc is in Final Projects
  • How you’re doing: Will be addressing this in class today :)

Next year improvements

  • Thanks for the suggestion to set time aside after group homeworks come out. We will make this a standard part of lab next year.
  • We’ll need to revisit dequeue next year – the missing emails are concerning.

Assessment Clarifications

Jan 28 · 2 min read

Answered Questions

When is the first portion of the assignment (UARs) due?

Given scheduling weirdness, we have decided to push the UAR deadline to Friday, 1/30. More info to come soon about whether this is a group or individual submission!

Is the first submission for this assignment (UARs) a group or individual submission?

The first submission (due Friday 1/30) is an individual submission, but we’ve made a few changes:

  • Each individual student is responsible for submitting 4 UARs: two found using a Screen Reader, two using your group’s other selected AT.
  • Your automated testing (ie, with WAVE or a similar tool) is to be done with your group, and submitted at the second deadline

We won’t be assessing you on the quality of your UARs here: this submission will be used only for individual assessment of the AT Familiarity and Accessible Document Creation competencies.

(Assessment competency will be evaluated as a group when you submit your combined report the following week)

Rationale

since we need to be able to assess both the Accessible Documents competency AND the AT Familiarity competency individually in this assignment, we needed to ensure each student individually submits 1) a document, that 2) allows them to demonstrate their use of two ATs. So, the actual quality of the UARs you submit / access issues you identify is NOT the focus of this submission; it’s actually just about you making an accessible document and demonstrating your ability to use two ATs.

How we’re accounting for the initial ambiguity in the spec and our communication:

  • We’ve reduced the expected number of UARs from 6 per person to just 4
  • We’ve removed the requirement to do automated testing and include that in your individual submission
  • We’ve ensured the initial work done as groups in section (i.e., identifying tasks and starting automated testing) is still useful for the overall assignment
  • We’ve pushed the deadline back +4 days
  • You have the right assignment spec if it says it was updated today, 1/23/26.

We feel this should keep things fair and manageable, but if folks have any other concerns about how we’ve adjusted the assignment or would like additional changes to be made, please let us know!

Assignment released

Jan 26 · 1 min read

Announcements for week 4

Assignment

  • The assignment has a few modifications, either crossed out or in [new] italics].
  • The Last revised date is: 1/23/2026
  • Let us know if you have any questions.

Handin

The assignment handin for the current assignment was released over the weekend and finalized today. There are four pieces

  • the three competencies
  • the report (which must be complete, and the group should decide how anonymous)

Writing credit

Reminder: Writing credit

  • this course optionally allows writing credit
  • you need to tell me you want it
  • you need to be willing to revise this report based on feedback before I send it to the sponsor to get it

Week 03 Announcements

Adjusting for Jen's Absence

Jan 22 · 1 min read

Due to my illness and family emergency, we’re making a few changes to the course schedule.

  • We are canceling tomorrow’s lecture. I am still not able to be upright for long enough to teach
  • To make up for the time, we’re
    • moving the guest lecture from next wednesday to later in the quarter
    • covering key material next monday and wednesday for the current assignment
    • moving the UAR due date to Friday
  • A question we would like your input on is whether we should also move the final due date for the written report. We’ll do an anonymous class feedback survey over the weekend or early next week and that will be one thing we’d like input on

Submissions for assignments will be up, and opened, much earlier. For the upcoming assignment, which is now extended, I’m hoping this will happen this Friday, but it may be over the weekend.

For AT trial – due to my absence, and missing details on the assignment page, you did work that was not part of the submission process. This was actually work that was important for effort & participation, and that I’d love to read. There is now an assignment in gradescope to upload these supplemental materials. Given how things went, this is optional, not required, at this point.

UAR templates – uploaded now to https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse443/26wi/csenetid/

Weekly Update

Jan 21 · 1 min read

What’s Happening This Week

  • Jen is likely out/remote this whole week, so their Office Hours are cancelled.
  • Please remember that if you have content/questions you want to discuss with the course staff, you can post about it on Ed, send us a Chat message on Ed, come to TA Office Hours (Jesse: Fri 2:30; Yumeng: Mon 2:30), or post on Ed to find a separate time to meet if those options do not work for you.

Course Content:

  • Today’s Lecture: Intro to Assessment & UARs
  • Section Tomorrow: Getting started with Assessment assignment
  • Friday’s Lecture: More Assessment

Due Today (1/21): AT Trial

  • Be sure to submit no later than EOD on Friday

  • As a reminder, First Person Accounts is an individual competency for this assignment– you can work with your groupmates to find an account, but you must each independently write your responses to the reflection questions.

Released Today (1/21): Assessment

  • This is a two-week assignment!
  • Groups & website assignments will be posted on Ed by the end of the day
  • Due next week (1/28): completed UARs
  • Due in two weeks (2/4): completed report

Section Tomorrow: Getting started with Assessment

  • Section will be back in person tomorrow! As a reminder, Section B is in a NEW ROOM (ECE 042); Section A is in the same location as before.
  • You will be working with your groups on the Assessment assignment, which includes using a screen reader. You may want to review the screen reader basics/resources shared last week.

Week 02 Announcements

Weekly Update

Jan 14 · 1 min read

Released Today: AT Trial

  • Project groups have been posted on Ed

  • Due on Monday 1/19

  • Coming up: Screen Reader Tutorial/Crash Course in class on Friday

Reminder: Section Tomorrow + AT Around Us Presentations

  • Section is virtual tomorrow– Zoom link is posted on Ed
  • Please be punctual, ready to present, etc.
  • Remember that this is not a graded presentation– it’s mostly just a share-out for folks to gain awareness of more AT
  • However, you CAN choose to request Extra Participation Points by ensuring you give an accessible presentation (per the guidelines discussed in class)

Weekly Update

Jan 12 · 3 min read

First a little update on Jen

  • My father-in-law came home Thursday
  • We’ve already lost two caregivers and have to change agencies
  • My husband and I are covering the gaps

What this means for you? Remember to send messages in Ed.

  • Ed has a chat that you can use to message the entire course staff
  • private messages are also seen by all of us.

Both of these strategies allow all of us to work together to make sure you get a timely response.

Next, upcoming this week

  • AT Around Us writeups are due. Submit them on gradescope
  • At Trial goes out Wednesday
  • AT Around Us us presentations will be in section Thursday. This is a required section, and will be held remotely. More details to follow.
  • Friday: TBD – depending on state of things, may be a review/deeper look, a guest lecture from Jesse, or cancelled.

Turning in AT Around Us

  • After some technical difficulties, we finally have the AT Around Us assignments posted on Gradescope. Sorry for the delay!
  • For each assignment, you will be submitting different portions of your materials to a distinct Gradescope “assignment” corresponding to each competency being evaluated.
  • For AT Around Us, this means you have a submission for Finding First Person Accounts, Disability Model Analysis, and Accessible Documents.
  • Specifics of what goes in each submission are detailed in the Assessment & Handin Process portion of the assignment page.

AT Around Us Presentations & Section Logistics

  • For this week, we’ll be virtual for Section: this is actually better for presentations because it lets us record, resolves the challenge with changing between laptops, etc.
  • Zoom link will be pinned in Ed
  • If you want to use our Section classrooms as a space to present (on Zoom) from, go for it!
  • Going forward, Section B will held in ECE 042, rather than that random astro room
    • This should also be listed on MyUW now

AT Around Us Presentation Specifics

  • We have 8 groups & 50 minutes in each Section, so that’s roughly 5-6mins per group (aim for 5)
    • With 4 slides/group, keep in mind that that’s only 1-1.5 mins per slide!
  • We strongly recommend assigning 1 person per slide, rather than jointly presenting all slides
  • We’re counting on folks to help out with quick transitions between groups: have your slides open, be ready to share in Zoom, etc.

Limited Remote Synchronous Attendance Option

  • Folks have made a strong case for offering synchronous attendance, so we’ve decided to start offering this to a limited degree
  • The expected default is still in-person attendance; however, if you make private post on Ed informing us ahead of class, we will share the Zoom info and you can join remotely.
  • This option should be used only when necessary– this class works significantly better when everyone is in-person. We also still offer remote async!

Week 01 Announcements

Friday Class Announcements

Jan 9 · 1 min read

AT Around Us Groups

Assignment Groups for AT Around Us have been posted on Ed

If you were unable to connect with your groupmate(s) in Section this week, please find them in class today or reach out via email (also posted on Ed)

On grade weighting (Jesse was wrong!)

In Section, Jesse said Competencies = 3.1/4.0 of the final grade. That’s not correct! Competencies constitute 3.75/4.0

‘Competent’ (3/4) on each competency results in 3.1 out of a possible 3.75. ‘Excellent’ on each competency results in the full 3.75.

(Don’t worry, Jesse made this slide, he’s not getting called out!)

Where does the other .25 come from?

  • Extra credit points. You report them to us. Examples:
    • Share an example of using something in this class somewhere else in your life
    • Provide evidence that you practice or complete an optional in-class assignment at home (such as laser cutting, accessible presenting, etc)
    • Turned in answers to most reading questions
    • Do extra work on an assignment

What else can impact my grade

  • regrades – once you do a competency individually once you can request regrades
  • not doing things – if you don’t turn in a bunch of homeworks, we will reduce your grade
  • final project problems – if your final project has badly done competencies in it, this will impact your individual grade

Reminder: Reading Responses

As a reminder, there are weekly readings in this class!

Be sure to check the course schedule for the content, and Ed for the thread of this week’s reading questions.

Please aim to reply there by Monday (if possible)!

Wednesday Class Announcements

Jan 7 · 1 min read

Slide printing

  • Should be working now
  • [Print] button at bottom right of slides generates HTML you can print

Attendance Confirmation

We want to make sure everyone understands the attendance expectations

  • Please check your schedules now to ensure that you will be available for the final exam
  • Now is a good time to ask any questions you have about attendance requirements
  • Fill out the attendance policy confirmation form by EOD Thursday to confirm you’ve done so

Group Assignments

Groups for assignment one will be finalized tomorrow. If you have a concern about assigned groupmates, please fill the partner exclusion form out by EOD Wednesday (today)

You can reach out to us on Ed if you miss this deadline or something comes up later in the quarter.

Welcome

Jan 5 · 0 min read

Welcome to CSE 443! Please read the syllabus

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