Competencies
As described in the syllabus, your grade in the class will be based on whether you achieve non competent, competent or excellent in each of these topics, based on multiple assessments.
Competency Descriptions
- Accessible Implementation
- Properly apply standards for accessible design (WCAG 2.1 AA) in your prototypes.
- Inclusive Person Centered Design
- You base design decisions on first person perspectives.
- Accessible Communication
- Ensure that documents, posters and presentations you create are accessible to everyone in your intended audience, including people with disabilities.
- Design/Disability Justice
- Argue for how a given technology, meets or fails to meet design/disability justice principles, including non-ableist language, emphasizing agency and control, and avoiding disability dongles
- Inclusive Experiments
- You appropriately consider accessibility, ethical/intersectional identity issues, and power dynamics in your experimental design. We're looking for reasoning that's specific to actual clients and context in this study