(Week: Final) Presentation and Handins

Last revised date: 2/6/2025

Overview

In this phase of the final project, you will present a complete final write up and presentation of your project.

Required Competencies

When you turn in this homework, also turn in these competencies

• Plain Language
• Accessible Documents

Optional Competencies

Optionally, you may want to turn in these competences as well:

• Accessible Documents
• Disability Model Analysis
• Finding First Person Accounts

Assignment Details

• 1. Create a poster (Group)
• 2. Be prepared to talk about your poster at a poster session (Required Attendance)
• 2. Finalize your web page
• Handin

1. Create a poster (Group)

1. Create a Poster This is required to be turned in a few days before our presentation, so we can print it before the poster session. Here is a UW page with poster templates. Please follow DO-IT’s guide to creating an accessible poster when you do this.

You should start with these templates and add the following things:

• A CREATE logo
• a QR code that links to your website
• pictures of your final system, and possibly your storyboard
• The following headers:
  • What did you do
  • Why is it needed (including first person evidence & disability justice analysis)
  • Technical details of what you did including how you achieved goal and what software / platforms you used
  • How you validated the idea
  • What you learned & suggested questions (“Ask me about…”)

2. Be prepared to talk about your poster at a poster session (Required Attendance)

You should bring a demo with you to the poster session and be prepared to show what you did in addition to talking about your poster.

Presenting a poster accessibly is similar to giving an accessible talk – you need to describe images visuals you are talking about on the poster.

• In addition, keep in mind the following points (quoted from Rua Williams’ Guide to Making Accessible Research Posters
  • “conversation during poster presentation times can be difficult for people who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing, have auditory processing issues, affected speech or expressive language, or use AAC to communicate.”
  • “As a presenter, keeping a notepad on hand to pass notes back and forth with interested attendees can help.”
  • “Also, remain patient and allow people with communication disabilities equal access to your time.”
  • Finally, “don’t assume someone is uninterested in talking to you based solely on their equipment or behavior. Any person who seems to linger around your poster deserves to be asked directly if they have questions or would like you explain the poster for them.”

Rua also recommends:

While your poster should be informational enough to be of interest even when you aren’t present, don’t expect people to read the poster while you are standing there. Present it! When you are not there, consider leaving a way for people to ask questions, such as post-it notes, a Sli.do event, or even a twitter tag.

2. Finalize your web page

You will need to add a section just below the abstract for your web page that has a “Plain Language Overview”. At this stage you should also add a description of your final project, including images, with ALT text. You can also make any other final updates to your website.

Your page should contain the following:

• At least two images of your project
• Images of your storyboard
• Text describing:
  • Abstract
  • First Person Information: What data drove your selection of this problem? Who cares that you do this and why?
  • A plain language introduction to the project (abstract and related work) ~3-4 paragraphs
  • Results– ~6 paragraphs: What tasks did you support? How did you validate? This should include at least one picture of your project, with alt text.
  • Disability Model Analysis ~3-5 paragraphs: Address the questions in this competency
  • Learnings and future work ~1-2 paragraphs (about 400 words): Describe what you learned and how this can be extended/ built on in the future.

Handin

Your final set of deliverables:

• Your poster presenting your work
• Your public-facing web page markdown and any associated images (upload the page and images as zip files)
• Your final reflection on group work

Note that for each competency, you will need to meet the requirements of the rubric for that competency

Optional competencies are simply an opportunity to update your group handin if you want.

Plain Language (rubric)

• Original text (unsimplified), minimum of 200 words
• Simplified text
• A list of the guidelines you wish to be assessed on, and an example of something you changed to meet each of them. You need at least five to be assessed as "excellent"

Accessible Documents (rubric)

• Your writeup (Microsoft word) or PowerPoint, or markdown (when required by the assignment). Note: do not submit a PDF. We expect your submission to be a Word or Google Doc.
• A list of images and the ALT text you wrote for each of them
• Which best practices are demonstrated in this document
• A screen shot showing the accessibility checker results for your document

Optional Information to hand in

In addition, you may choose to hand in the following optional information. Please ask the instructors if you're unsure what additional work or materials might be needed to complete these.

Accessible Documents (rubric)

• Your writeup (Microsoft word) or PowerPoint, or markdown (when required by the assignment). Note: do not submit a PDF. We expect your submission to be a Word or Google Doc.
• A list of images and the ALT text you wrote for each of them
• Which best practices are demonstrated in this document
• A screen shot showing the accessibility checker results for your document

Disability Model Analysis (rubric)

• Define and explain two disability justice principles. For each, explain how the subject fails or succeeds to meet that?
• Address the three additional points
• Is it ableist?
• Is it informed by disabled perspectives?
• Does it oversimplify disability/identity?

Finding First Person Accounts (rubric)

• A link to the first person account
• A reflection answering the following questions
• What first person account did you find and does it meet the requirements for a first person account described above
• What are the barriers and opportunities the person described?
• What technology did they describe using?
• How might what you learned extend beyond this specific person, disability and/or technology?
• A list of additional resources you used to answer these questions (first person accounts, research papers, etc). If you use Generative AI, you still need to check and cite relevant references.