Zoom only day (rather than having three different physical rooms)
We will break up into three groups, each with a different zoom link so that we can record your presentations
Look for an Ed announcement on this

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

Required
- The 10 principles of disability justice and Respond
- Plain language writing and Respond
If you want to dig deeper
- Design, Disability and Knowing the ‘Other’
- Plain language

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

What are the current accessibility standards
How do we use automated tools to assess accessibility
How can we use accessibility technology to assess accessibility
Get comfortable using existing freely available accessibility technology to support assessment
More advanced accessibility techniques
- Differences between Image description, Diagram description and UI description
- Video description & Captioning
- Math, Tables & other elements (including custom interactors)

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides Accessibility Testing

Accessible Markdown for Accessibility Testing

Wednesday

Come Prepared

Come to class with an image, diagram, or other graphic you want to describe
Slides Accessibility Standards & Media Accessibility

Accessible Markdown for Accessibility Standards & Media Accessibility

Thursday Section: Practice with Accessibility Assessment

Friday Slides More Accessibility Standards

Accessible Markdown for More Accessibility Standards

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

Required
- Accessibility Testing: Read The Importance of Manual Accessibility Testing and Respond
- Read about creating accessible images and diagrams and Respond
  - Find a non-text content on the web that does not have ALT text (something other than a photograph)
  - Post a description of the leftmost GUI
- Audio Description: Read What is audio description? (from The Audio Description Project) and Respond
If you want to dig deeper
- Read about Switches
- Try out the Image ALT Text Tutorial
- Watch: Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions
- Read about Making numbers accessiblen

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

How accessibility works under the hood
More on navigation and its impact
What are the trade offs between different tools?

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides How to build for accessibility

Accessible Markdown for How to build for accessibility

Wednesday Slides Implementing Accessibility

Accessible Markdown for Implementing Accessibility

Maybe a hands on exercise. Also discuss Aria

Thursday Section Group work on Report

Friday Slides Comparing Automated Testing and Manual Testing

Accessible Markdown for Comparing Automated Testing and Manual Testing

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

Required
- Read: About how web semantics are conveyed to screen readers and Respond
If you want to dig deeper
- Read: Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective
- Read: Is your web page accessible? A comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind and Respond
- Read: Comparison of different methods for accessibility testing Mateus etal, 2021
- Watch: Google Video on Practical Web Accessibility — this video provides a great overview of the Web and how to make web content accessible. Highly recommended as a supplement to what we will cover in class.
- Watch: Latte: Use-Case and Assistive-Service Driven Automated Accessibility Testing Framework for Android and read Lies, Damned Lies, Overlays, and Widgets
- Read: Semantics for Eye tracking

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

How to assess whether a technology is accessible; and whether an accessibility technology is useful and usable, in an inclusive fashion.
How do you make sure your product is accessible to people with disabilities
1. Data Equity and implicit bias
2. Beyond automated assessment: Accessible Summative Studies
3. Importance of Intersectionality
How do you make sure your accessibility technology is valued by people with disabilities
- What are potential data sources for assessing value
- Collaboration Versus Paternalism
- Overly narrow views of disability: Multiple disabled people & multiply disabled people

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides Guest Lecture: Avery Mack: Assessing Accessibility

Accessible Markdown for Guest Lecture: Avery Mack: Assessing Accessibility

Wednesday Conversation with Jaipreet Virdi

Dr. Jaipreet Virdi will be lecturing on 10/24 at 6:30pm on “The Disabled Gaze: Rethinking the Past, Remaking the Future”. Please contact the instructors if you would like to attend – we have 25 tickets to give out
In addition, she will join us in class for a conversation about disability and technology and the disabled gaze. This is a chance for you to bring questions about her and her work.

Friday Slides Best of ASSETS

Accessible Markdown for Best of ASSETS

Homework

Required Reading and Reflection (for Wednesday)

Attend Jaipreet Virdi’s talk at 6:30pm on Tuesday if you’re able (ask us for tickets) or read Q&A with Jaipret Virdi by Alice Wong on the Disability Project website.

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.

Read Blurring the Boundaries Between Assistive Tech and Companionship and Respond
If you want to dig deeper

Continued Website Report

Module 2: Post GUI Accessibility

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

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Work with laser cutting to make accessible technology
Learn about fabrication tools and techniques

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides Introduction to 3D Printing and Physical Computing

Accessible Markdown for Introduction to 3D Printing and Physical Computing

Wednesday: Brief Introduction to Laser Cutting

Accessible Markdown for 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)

Required: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements.
- Read Lasercutting with Tinkercad and join our (Tinkercard Classroom)[https://www.tinkercad.com/joinclass/IEPJ5JFZ3] and complete the tutorial in our Laser Cut Accessibility Aid activity.
- Read Empowering individuals with do-it-yourself assistive technology and respond to the reading question on Respond
If you want to go deeper
- Consumer-Grade Fabrication and Its Potential to Revolutionize Accessibility, CACM 2019

Assigned: Accessibility Implementation

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

Learning Goals & Plan

Learning Goals

Sources of Bias in AI based systems
Applications of AI for Accessibility
How do you make sure your accessibility technology is valued by people with disabilities
- What are potential data sources for assessing value
- Collaboration Versus Paternalism
- Overly narrow views of disability: Multiple disabled people & multiply disabled people

Lecture Plan

Monday Slides AI and Accessibility

Accessible Markdown for 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

A web element such as a link, button, or a small toy webpage. Try to assess the accessibility of this button either using an accessibility technology or an automatic checker. Respond to this post answering the following questions.
1. Can you think of one algorithmic decision making system that you came across in your day-to-day experiences? How could this system possibly cause harm to people with disabilities?
2. Describe your experience of generating the HTML code snippet. What did you try to generate? How accessible was it? Is generativeAI ready to help us write code that generates accessible outputs?
If you want to go deeper
- Difficulty Vs Accessibility
- Fairness issues in AI Systems that augment sensory abilities

Wednesday Slides Designing for and with people with disabilities

Accessible Markdown for 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

How do you make sure your accessibility technology is valued by people with disabilities
- What are potential data sources for assessing value
- Collaboration Versus Paternalism
- Overly narrow views of disability: Multiple disabled people & multiply disabled people
Accessibility and Sustainaibility
- Disaster response and Access
- Governmentalitiy and Access
- Information Economy and Access
Accessibility in Games: Why inclusion in eSports matters and how to get there

Lecture Plan

Monday: Group Formation & Feedback Opportunities

In class exercise to form final project groups

Wednesday Sustainability

Accessible Markdown for 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

Intersectionality
- Exposure to research
- Example of what intersectional work might look like
- Discussion of intersections of LGBTQIA+ and disability
Accessible Data Visualizations
- What are the commonly-used techniques to make data visualizations accessible?
- What are the pros and cons of these techniques?
- What are some of the nuances in making data visualizations accessible?