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Module 1: Accessibility Basics

Week 1 (9/27 - 9/29): Introduction to Disability & Accessibility

Learning Goals and Class Plan

Learning Goals

Lecture Plan

Wednesday Slides Introduction to Course

Thursday Section Discussion and demos of access technologies

Friday Slides Accessibility

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection
AT Around Us Assigned: Find Accessibility Technologies

Week 2 (10/2 - 10/6): Accessible Documents & Disability Justice

Learning Goals and Class Plan

Learning Goals

We will start understanding how to make documents accessible

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides Accessible Presentations and Presenting Accessibly

Monday/Wednesday Slides Introduction to Disability Justice

Wednesday Slides Introduction to Plain Language

Thursday: Section: Practice with Plain Language

Friday: AT Around Us Presentations

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)
Disability Justice Homework Assigned: Pick an access topic and analyze it from a disability justice perspective.

Week 3 (10/9-10/13): Guidelines and Assessment

Learning Goals and Class Plan

Learning Goals

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides Accessibility Testing

Wednesday

Thursday Section: Practice with Accessibility Assessment

Friday Slides More Accessibility Standards

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)
Website Testing Homework Assigned: Assess a website or app and generate UARS for it

Week 4 (10/16-10/20): Building & Remediating Accessible Interfaces

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides How to build for accessibility

Wednesday Slides Implementing Accessibility

Maybe a hands on exercise. Also discuss Aria

Thursday Section Group work on Report

Friday Slides Comparing Automated Testing and Manual Testing

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)
Website Report Assigned: Write a group report about your assessment

Week 5 (10/23 - 10/27): Accessible Need-Finding and Evaluation

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides Guest Lecture: Avery Mack: Assessing Accessibility

Wednesday Conversation with Jaipreet Virdi

Friday Slides Best of ASSETS

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)
Jaipreet Virdi Bio and Talk Abstract

Jaipreet Virdi, Associate Professor, Department of History at the University of Delaware, is a scholar activist. Her first book, Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History raises pivotal questions about deafness in American society and the endless quest for a cure. Her writing has appeared in Slate, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Psyche, The Wellcome Collection, and the New Internationalist. She is on Twitter as @jaivirdi

How do disabled people use their technologies to draw attention to, rather than hide, their disability? The disabled gaze is an autonomous claiming of identity that rejects typical perceptions of disability as objectifying or exploitative. It offers a way to examines how disabled people, past and present, asserted themselves—through art, for instance—or challenged medical assumptions about their bodies.

What happens when we center the disabled gaze in our creations of the future? In this talk, Dr. Jaipreet Virdi asks us to consider how being disabled changes the ways people view the world and the things they create. Through these perspectives, she invites alternative approaches for remaking crip worlds, one in which disabled people, and the disabled gaze, are centered first and foremost.

The lecture will be accompanied by an ASL interpreter and will include CART captioning.

Continued Website Report

Module 2: Post GUI Accessibility

Week 6 (10/30 - 11/3): Fabrication

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides Introduction to 3D Printing and Physical Computing

Wednesday: Brief Introduction to Laser Cutting

Thursday Section IN CSE 022: Finish making laser cuttable designs and print

Friday Discussion with Marco Salsiccia, Senior Native Mobile Accessibility Coach at Deque Systems (formerly a Senior Animator at First Person; and Dr. Michele Williams of M.A.W. Consulting. We will talk about about an industry perspective on accessibility testing and born accessible systems.

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)
Assigned: Accessibility Implementation

Week 7 (11/6 - 11/10): Accessible AI

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides AI and Accessibility

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)
  • Required: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements.
    • Please read Risks and Opportunities in AI-based applications for people with disabilities. Please also use ChatGPT or github copilot to generate

Wednesday Slides Designing for and with people with disabilities

; also Discussion of Final Project

Final Project Proposal Assigned: Prepare your final project proposal (individual)

Thursday: Section: Practice with making data accessible

Friday 11/10: HOLIDAY

Module 3: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Week 8 (11/13-11/17): Sustainability & Games

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Lecture Plan

Monday: Group Formation & Feedback Opportunities

In class exercise to form final project groups

Wednesday Sustainability

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)
Required: Please post your response in this Ed thread
  • Watch Difficulty Vs Accessibility and respond to the following prompt: Think of a part of a game you’ve played that is both a source of Difficulty AND an accessibility barrier— how might you redesign it to be accessible while still keeping the satisfying game difficulty?
  • Watch Detecting and Defending Against Seizure-Inducing GIFs in Social Media and respond to the following prompt: Can you think of a potentially problematic effect in a game that you played? Why is it problematic? Is there an option to disable it?

If you want to dig deeper

Group Project Checkpoint Assigned: Group Project Checkpoint

Thursday: Section Work in groups on final projects

Friday: Games

Week 9 (11/20-11/24): Group Checkpoints (Full Group Required)

Group Checkin Plan

Attend a meeting slot with your whole group (slots will overlap class but also extend beyond class hours)

Thursday 11/23 and Friday 11/24: HOLIDAY

Week 10 (11/27–12/1): Intersectionality & XR/AR

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Schedule

Monday Guest lecture by Kirk Crawford: Complex Dynamics: What LGBTQIA+ Community Centers Reveal About Disability and Assistive Tech

Wednesday AR/VR & Accessibility

Thursday (lab) && Friday Project Group Checkins (Full group attendance Required, details TBD)

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

Watch the following ASSETS 2023 videos and answer questions on Ed.

Optional (we watched this during the ASSETS watch party)

VR ALT Text

Week 11 (12/4–12/8): Innovation & Visualization

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Schedule

Posters are due before you go to sleep Thursday.
No readings

Monday possible guest lecture from Richard Ladner

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

Wednesday Accessible Visualization

Thursday Finalize your posters.

Friday AMA/TBD

Finals week: Final presentations – 12/12, late afternoon (around 2:30-4ish)

Final project presentations
Unused Reading and Ideas
some additional readings and slides to possibly use
slides not in use

Slides Physical Computing

topics not covered
  • AR/VR
  • Video conferencing
  • Large gatherings (virtual or hybrid)
  • Online text based support groups
  • Social networks such as twitter or facebook
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Chronic Illness