Final Writeup

Last revised date: 9/17/2026

Overview

Document your complete project including client input, design decisions, and accessibility audit

Required Competencies

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

• Accessible Communication
• Inclusive Person Centered Design
• Design/Disability Justice
• Accessible Implementation

Assignment Details

• Learning Goals
• Submission Instructions
• Final Accessibility Audit
• Writeup

Prepare a final project report that engages the reader in your project and helps them to understand what you did and why.

Learning Goals

• Participation, Effort and Teamwork
• Accessible Communication
• Inclusive Person Centered Design
• Design/Disability Justice
• Accessible Implementation

Submission Instructions

Please use the README.md file in your github repository for this assignment. You can edit it using the Gitlab rich content editor or directly edit the file. You should also commit your code to your gitlab repository if you have not yet done so. You will submit this as a link on Canvas. Please include an additional INSTALL.md file with your code explaining how to run it, and comment your code.

Final Accessibility Audit

This will be assessed on Accessible Implementation

Your group should complete a final audit of your app. It is ok to have accessibility problems. We are just asking you to document them.

Your audit should be included at the end of your writeup, along with a VPAT table

Criteria	Conformance Level	Brief Explanation
1.4.4 (Resize Text)
1.4.10 (Reflow)
2.4.3 (Focus Order)
4.1.2 (name, role, value)
… (based on WCAG beginner’s guide reading)

Writeup

Your final writeup should be the main README.md for your gitlab repository. It must be accessible. This can be accomplished simply through proper use of headers, and the addition of ALT text in markdown to all images. Your writeup should detail the following:

• Header: Project title, group members, and mentor and class name
• Introduction: ~2 paragraphs:
  1. First Paragraph: What is the problem you are solving and why is it important to solve it?
  2. Second Paragraph: What does your application do and how does this help with the problem
• Client Input (will be assessed on Inclusive Person Centered Design)
  1. Who were your clients
  2. What did you learn from them about their access needs
  3. Include at least one quote
  4. What did you learn from them about your lofi prototype? (Include pictures of your lo fi prototype)
• Final Concept (Will be assessed on Design/Disability Justice). Please include high quality screenshots of your prototype. The screenshots should communicate well what the prototype is about for people who have not seen it in action.
  1. Present a description of your final concept, both from a design and a technical perspective (should include photos and diagram to support the text).
  2. Describe how it addresses intersectional needs of your client population and emphasizes justice centered approaches
  3. Discuss potential risks and harms and what you did to minimize them
  4. Effectively advertise your innovation to your audience. What can be done with your finished artifact that wasn’t possible before?
• VPAT (accessibility audit) Describe what is accessible and what is not accessible about your application (assessed on Accessible Implementation).
  1. Provide a VPAT table
  2. Provide the results of your accessibility audit

Accessible Communication (rubric)

• Your document as required by the assignment. Note: do not submit a PDF. We expect your submission to be a Word or Google Doc in most cases.
• 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

Inclusive Person Centered Design (rubric)

• A link to the first person account(s)
• A reflection answering the following questions
• What first person account(s) did you find and does it meet the requirements for a first person account described above
• How do their intersecting identities (e.g., race, gender, socioeconomic status) shape their experiences of disability? Are there any groups or identities missing from the accounts you found, and what impact might that have on your understanding of the problem?
• How can your project goals address barriers that arise from multiple intersecting systems of oppression (e.g., racism, ableism, sexism)?
• What insights or lessons did you learn from them, and how would you define your project goals based on them?
• How would you define success for this project, and how will you determine if it has positively impacted your target users? What measures will you take to avoid reinforcing existing biases or excluding certain identities?

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

Accessible Implementation (rubric)

• VPAT table documenting WCAG conformance levels
• Accessibility audit results identifying what is and is not accessible