Weekly Schedule
Week 1: Introduction to Disability & Accessibility
Jan 5 2026 (Week 1): Introduction to Disability & Accessibility
Introduction to Disability & Accessibility
- Monday
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- Learn how accommodations can make a meeting more inclusive
- Skill Goal
- Wednesday
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- At Around US
- HW 1
- Thursday
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- Icebreakers and norms
- Section
- Friday
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- Friday Studio: Slide Accessibility and Presentation Accessibility
- Studio
- For Monday
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- Plain language
- Optional
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- One Button to Rule Them All
- Optional
Week 2: Accessible Design and Documents
Jan 12 2026 (Week 2): Accessible Design and Documents
Accessible Design and Documents
- Monday
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- Plain Language
- Slides
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- At Around US
- HW 1 due
- Wednesday
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- Designing for User Agents (part 1)
- Slides
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- AT Trial
- HW 2 assigned
- Thursday
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- AT around us presentations
- Section (GRADED)
- Friday
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- Friday Studio: Introduction to AAC with Tobias Weinberg
- Studio
- For Monday
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- If you have a windows machine, install NVDA and watch Testing with NVDA. If you have a mac, read Testing with Voiceover.
- Read/Watch
Week 3: Formalizing Assessment--UARS and Testing
Jan 19 2026 (Week 3): Formalizing Assessment--UARS and Testing
Formalizing Assessment--UARS and Testing
Monday: Holiday
- Wednesday
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- Assessment Start
- Slides
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- AT Trial
- HW 2 due
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- Website/App Assessment
- HW 3 assigned
- Thursday
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- If you have a windows machine, watch Testing with NVDA. If you have a mac, read Testing with Voiceover.
- Read/Watch
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- Practice using Screen Readers: Setup & Accessibility Testing
- Section
- Friday
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- Friday Studio: Assessment
- Studio
- For Monday
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- [TODO] Dequeue course on ARIA
- Watch
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- Lies, Damn Lies, and Overlays
- Optional
Week 4: Accessible Forms & Aria
Jan 26 2026 (Week 4): Accessible Forms & Aria
Accessible Forms & Aria
- Monday
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- Slides TBD
- Slides
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- Website/App Assessment
- HW 3 UARS due
- Wednesday
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- Fireside Chat (with Atieh Tehari)
- Spotlight
- Thursday
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- Help with Accessibility Implementation & setup for Friday. Setup IDE for flutter & copilot (stretch: & to check accessibility)
- Section
- Friday
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- Install VSCode and CoPilot (free through Github) or vibe coding interface of your choice.
- Prep
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- Friday Studio: AI production of an accessible webpage (relevant videos: Optimizing Co-Pilot for Accessibility; User story using CoPilot to build apps); Building an app from scratch using copilot)
- Studio
- For Monday
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- Chartability Workbook until the beginning of the heading “the tests”.
- Read
Week 5: Visualizations
Feb 2 2026 (Week 5): Visualizations
Visualizations
- Monday
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- Accessible Visualization
- Slides
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- Web/App Assessment final due date
- HW 3 (Writeup) due
- Wednesday
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- Fireside Chat with Frank Elavsky
- Spotlight
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- Improve accessibility of a thing
- HW 4 assigned
- Thursday
- Project Group Formation
- Friday
- Friday Studio: Visualizing Data Accessibly in HighCharts (relevant pages: HighCharts in Flutter)
- For Monday
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- On Being an Outlier
- Read
Week 6: AI and Accessibility
Feb 9 2026 (Week 6): AI and Accessibility
AI and Accessibility
- Monday
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- AI and Accessibility
- Slides
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- Improve accessibility of a thing
- HW 4 due
- Wednesday
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- Fireside Chat (Rua Williams)
- Spotlight
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- Design Docs
- HW 5 assigned
- Thursday & Friday
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- Project Group Proposal Presentations
- GRADED
- For Monday
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- Pick one of: Stop Doing That! (Samantha Bee & Nyle DiMarco); Chicas talk disability; From time 42:25 Podcast Website | YouTube at Timestamp | Transcription
- Listen/watch
Week 7: Intersectionality
Feb 16 2026 (Week 7): Intersectionality
Intersectionality
Monday: Holiday
- Wednesday
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- Intersectionality (Guest Speaker Aashaka Desai)
- Spotlight
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- Design Docs
- HW 5 due
- Thursday & Friday
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- Final Project Status Checks
- GRADED
- For Monday
Week 8: Fabrication (part 1)
Feb 23 2026 (Week 8): Fabrication (part 1)
Fabrication (part 1)
- Monday
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- Fabrication & Accessibility
- Slides
- Wednesday
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- Studio (early): Lasercutting Design
- Skill Goal
- Thursday & Friday
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- Final Project Status Checks
- GRADED
Week 9: Project Checkins
Mar 2 2026 (Week 9): Project Checkins
Project Checkins
- Monday
- TBD
- Wednesday & Friday:
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- Final Project Status Checks
- GRADED
- Thursday
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- Finish making laser cuttable designs and print
- Section
Week 10: Project Checkins
Mar 9 2026 (Week 10): Project Checkins
Project Checkins
- Topics Covered
- Course Feedback
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- Final Project Status Checks
- GRADED
- Assignment:
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- Final Code and Writeup
- HW 6 assigned
Week 11: Finals Week
Mar 16 2026 (Week 11): Finals Week
Finals Week
- Monday
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- Final Project Presentatinos
- HW 7
Topics we won’t get to and/or readings we didn’t use.
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AAC Technology (Guest Speaker xx) Spotlight
- Creating an accessible course
- Accessibility Curriculum: Teach Access on Fundamentals
- RIT research project on teaching accessibility
- Teaching Accessible Computing Book
- BBC Guide
- Complex image description (Decorative and branding; Diagrams; Visualizations; Memes; GUIS; (AR/VR); Rich Interaction Components;CAPTCHAs
- The Importance of Manual Accessibility Testing
- Creating accessible images and diagrams
- Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write ALT text or read about Making numbers accessible
- Robotics, health & accessibility presentation (Dr. Suzuki, 1:30-2:10)
- Anticipate and Adjust
- Beyond Vision Impairments: Redefining the Scope of Accessible Data Representations;
- Kelley-Costello: A just transition for disabled people
- Hamidi and Karachiwalla: “I’m ok because I’m alive”: understanding socio-cultural accessibility barriers for refugees with disabilities in the US
- Anything from the 24w CREATE seminar
- Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future
- Understanding Blind and Low-Vision People’s Perception of Hallucination in Large Vision Language Models
- “I look at it as the king of knowledge”: How Blind People Use and Understand Generative AI Tools
- GenAssist: Making Image Generation Accessible
- Probing the Gaps in ChatGPT Live Video Chat for Real-World Assistance for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired
- EditScribe: Non-Visual Image Editing with Natural Language Verification Loops
- ProgramAlly: Creating Custom Visual Access Programs via Multi-Modal End-User Programming
- How we navigate Maintaining the Accessibility Ecosystem: a Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Accessibility in Higher Education
- What we teach Beyond HCI: The need for accessibility Across the CS curriculum
- Ungrading for access and equity
- Accessibility Work in Academia: Balancing Needs, Bridging Gaps, and Breaking Down Barriers
- Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design
- Envisioning Collective Communication Access: A Theoretically-Grounded Review of Captioning Literature from 2013-2023
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517428.3544812
- Accessibility people, you go work on that thing of yours over there”: Addressing Disability Inclusion in AI Product Organizations
- System-class Accessibility The architectural support for making a whole system usable by people with disabilities
- Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective;
- How are People with Disabilities Embraced in Software Development Teams? A Systematic Literature Review
- System-class accessibility
- Security and Accessibility
- “Designing from Lived Experience”