(Week: 3) AEIOU Analysis

Last revised date: 9/17/2026

Overview

Analyze how your design proposal addresses AEIOU framework considerations

Required Competencies

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

• Design/Disability Justice

Assignment Details

• AEIOU Analysis
• Handin
  • Team Contribution & AI use Statement
  • Competencies

AEIOU Analysis

Review the first person accounts you found and fill out an AEIOU Analysis based on them. Meet with your project mentor and talk through the AEIOU with them.

• Activities
  • What activities did you learn about?
  • How, if at all, are clients’ racial or other identities harmed, or supported, during these activities?
• Environments
  • Where do the activities take place?
  • What structural forces, or assumptions, are at play regarding client race, gender and/or disability status?
• Interactions
  • Who or what does the client interact with when accomplishing the activities?
  • What biases or assumptions might impact the client during these interactions?
• Objects
  • What objects do they use and how?
  • Are any of them accessibility tools?
  • How are cultural identity, gender identity, and disability identity represented in these objects, if at all?
• Users
  • Who are the stakeholders that clients interact with when accomplishing the activity?
  • What sort of power differentials exist in these interactions?

Handin

Team Contribution & AI use Statement

Submit a contribution statement and AI use along with each group submission (for all graded team assignments!). Include this contribution statement as an additional part of your submission, along with the names of your group members. Please note that we will not grade submissions where this statement is missing.

Competencies

You will also turn in the individual requirements for this competency

Design/Disability Justice (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
• Analysis of potential harms and mitigation strategies
• [TODO: make more concrete or delete] Evidence of engagement with clients' whole selves intersectionally