Module 1: Accessibility Basics
Week 1 (9/22 - 9/28): Introduction to Disability & Accessibility
Week 2 (9/29 - 10/5): Accessible Documents & Design A11yhood
Week 3 (10/6-10/12): Guidelines and Assessment
Week 4 (10/13-10/19): Building & Remediating Accessible Interfaces
Week 5 (10/20 - 10/26): Accessible In Industry
Module 2: Post GUI Accessibility
Week 6 (10/27 - 11/2): AI and Data Visualization
Week 7 (11/3 - 11/9): Fabrication and Accessibility
Week 8 (11/10-11/16): Accessibility Across Technology
Module 3: Everything Everywhere All at Once
Week 9 (11/17-11/23): Intersectionality and Sustainability
Week 10 (11/24–11/30):
Week 11 (12/1–12/7): Final Project Presentations (tentative)
Finals week (tentative)
- Monday 12/9: Final Project Handins Due by 11:30am

Module 1: Accessibility Basics

Week 1 (9/22 - 9/28): Introduction to Disability & Accessibility

Monday NO CLASS

Wednesday Introduction to Course

Accessible Markdown for Introduction to Course

AT Around Us Assigned

Thursday Section: Discussion and demos of accessibility technologies; Ice Breakers & Norms.

Friday Accessibility

Accessible Markdown for Accessibility

Preparation for next week:
- Read Disability Dongles
- Read Plain language writing.
- Optional: If you want to dig deeper, read Plain language or Disability Dongles by Liz Jackson

Week 2 (9/29 - 10/5): Accessible Documents & Design A11yhood

Monday Accessible Presentations and Presenting Accessibly

Accessible Markdown for Accessible Presentations and Presenting Accessibly

AT Around Us Due

Wednesday Design A11yhood

Accessible Markdown for Design A11yhood

A11yhood Analysis Homework Assigned

Thursday Section: AT Around Us Presentations (2 groups per section)

Friday Guest Lecturer: Kate Glazko – Introduction to Text Simplification

Accessible Markdown for Introduction to Text Simplification

Kate also presented this in-class exercise
Preparation for next week:
- Read The Importance of Manual Accessibility Testing
- Read Creating accessible images and diagrams
- Optional: If you want to dig deeper, read Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write ALT text or read about Making numbers accessible

Week 3 (10/6-10/12): Guidelines and Assessment

Monday Accessibility Testing

Accessible Markdown for Accessibility Testing

A11yhood Analysis Homework Due

Wednesday What is Accessible?

Accessible Markdown for What is Accessible?

Website Testing Homework Assigned

Thursday Section: Practice with Accessibility Assessment

Friday More Accessibility Standards

Accessible Markdown for More Accessibility Standards

Readings and Preparation:
- Read about how web semantics are represented by screen readers.
- Watch Anticipate and Adjust CHI 2022
- Also learn what doesn’t work: Lies, Damned Lies, Overlays, and Widgets
- Optional If you want to dig deeper you may find it interesting to watch the Google Video on Practical Web Accessibility and to read Anticipate and Adjust CHI 2022

Week 4 (10/13-10/19): Building & Remediating Accessible Interfaces

Monday How to build for accessibility

Accessible Markdown for How to build for accessibility

Website Testing Homework Due

Wednesday Guest Lecture: Avery Mack: Assessing Accessibility

Accessible Markdown for Guest Lecture: Avery Mack: Assessing Accessibility

Accessibility Implementation Assigned

Thursday Section: Help with Accessibility Implementation

Friday How to build for accessibility and Software Engineering

Accessible Markdown for How to build for accessibility and Software Engineering

Readings and Preparation:
- Readings about from “Teaching Accessible Computing”
  - Read about accessibility’s relevance to different areas of computer science: Software Engineering or Mobile Dev
  - Read about Robotics and Accessibility

Week 5 (10/20 - 10/26): Accessible In Industry

Monday: Robotics and Accessibility (Tentative)

Accessibility Implementation Due

Wednesday: Industry perspectives on accessible

Accessible Markdown for Industry perspectives on accessible

Discussion of accessibility testing and born accessible systems.

Website Report Assigned

Thursday Section: Group Work on Report

Friday: Presentations of Accessible Implementation Assignment

Readings and Preparation:
- Read Machine Learning and Accessibility from “Teaching Accessible Computing”
- Read the Chartability Workbook until the beginning of the heading “the tests”.
- Optional If you want to, dig deeper with ChatGPT is Biased Against Resumes Mentioning Disability, Fairness issues in AI Systems that augment sensory abilities and/or Increasing Data Equity in Accessibility and/or dataviza11y resources and/or Data Science + Accessibility from “Teaching Accessible Computing”

Module 2: Post GUI Accessibility

Week 6 (10/27 - 11/2): AI and Data Visualization

Monday 10/28: AI and Accessibility

Accessible Markdown for AI and Accessibility

Website Report Due

Wednesday 10/30: Course Feedback, Final Project & Best of Assets

Accessible Markdown for Course Feedback, Final Project & Best of Assets

Project Proposal Assigned

Thursday 10/31: Section - Group Formation & Practice making data accessible

Friday 11/1: Data Visualization

Accessible Markdown for Data Visualization

Preparation for next week:
- Read Laser cutting with Tinkercad
- Join our Tinkercard Classroom
- Complete the tutorial and our Laser Cut Accessibility Aid activity activity.
- Read Empowering individuals with do-it-yourself assistive technology
- Optional: Read Consumer-Grade Fabrication and Its Potential to Revolutionize Accessibility, CACM 2019.

Week 7 (11/3 - 11/9): Fabrication and Accessibility

Monday 11/4: Introduction to Laser Cutting

Accessible Markdown for Introduction to Laser Cutting

Project Proposal Due

Wednesday 11/6:

In class work on accessible objects
Testing with paper, scissors, and printers
Some overnight printing if ready
Project checkpoint Assigned

Thursday 11/7: Section: in CSE 022

Finish making laser cuttable designs and print

Friday 11/8: Fabrication and Physical Computing

Accessible Markdown for Fabrication and Physical Computing

Visit from Daniel Campos-Zamora
Final project groups must be finalized
Readings and Preparation:
- Read How Android Accessibility Services Can Be Used to Hack Your Phone; Lewis et al.
- Read Security and Privacy from “Teaching Accessible Computing”
- Read the WCAG XR Access guidelines through Section 3.9

Week 8 (11/10-11/16): Accessibility Across Technology

Monday 11/11: Veterans day (holiday)

Wednesday 11/13: Security and Privacy (Guests: Aaleyah Lewis & Tina Yeung)

Project Checkpoint 1 Slides Due

Thursday 11/14: Section - Project Group Checkins (Full group attendance Required, details TBD)

You’ll present your Checkpoint 1 slides to course staff with your whole group

Friday 11/15: AR/VR Accessibility (Guest: Xia Su)

Readings and Preparation:
- Watch Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability and Technology
- Listen to or watch one of the following first person accounts:
  - Stop Doing That! With Nyle DiMarco
  - Chicas talk disability;
  - AAC User Perspectives on Racism and Disability (From time 42:25 Podcast Website or YouTube at Timestamp with Transcription)
- Read A just transition for disabled people
- Read Deafness and Hearing Loss
- Optional: Read The principal of collective access or Climate Crisis makes us recognize our limits: Disability culture can show us how; Watch The Right to be Rescued.

Module 3: Everything Everywhere All at Once

Week 9 (11/17-11/23): Intersectionality and Sustainability

Monday 11/18: Intersectionality Roundtable (Guests: Rahaf Alharbi; Aashaka Desai and Stacy Hsueh)

Wednesday 11/20: Deaf Technology (Guest: Richard Ladner)

Thursday 11/21: Group Project Work Time

Friday 11/22: Sustainability

Accessible Markdown for Sustainability

Week 10 (11/24–11/30):

Sunday 11/24

Project Checkpoint 2 Slides Due

Monday 11/25 and Wednesday 11/27: Group Checkpoints

Sign up for a meeting slot to present your Checkpoint 2 slides with your whole group (slots will overlap class but also extend beyond class hours)

Thursday 11/28 and Friday 11/29: Thanksgiving break (HOLIDAY)

Week 11 (12/1–12/7): Final Project Presentations (tentative)

Monday 12/2: AMA and Final Project Update

Accessible Markdown for Final Project Update

Wednesday 12/4: Final Project Presentations

Thursday 12/5: Group Work opportunity

Friday 12/6: Final Project Presentations

Finals week (tentative)

Monday 12/9: Final Project Handins Due by 11:30am

Unused Reading and Ideas

How to do something good in the disability community if you’re not disabled
VR ALT Text
Crippin’ Jim Crow
Traumatic Brain Injury: A Guide for Criminal Justice Professionals
Disabling Incarceration: Connecting Disability to Divergent Confinements in the USA
A systematic literature review of handheld augmented reality solutions for people with disabilities
7 benefits of AR and VR for People with Disabilities (a bit ableist)
Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Research, Access and Design
Disability Studies as a source of critical inquiry…
Vital coronavirus is failing the blind and visually impaired
Blurring the Boundaries Between Assistive Tech and Companionship (a little too salesy)
The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytic, Policy, and Tools
My Disability Is Dynamic
Considerations for HCI accessibility practices with chronically ill people
Areas of Strategic Visibility: Disability Bias in Biometrics
Explaining Explanations: An Approach to Evaluating Interpretability of Machine Learning
A systematic literature review of handheld augmented reality solutions for people with disabilities
The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytic, Policy, and Tools
Andrew, S., Watson, S., Oh, T., & Tigwell, G. W. (2020). A Review of Literature on Accessibility and Authentication Techniques. The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3373625.3418005
Vivian Motti (2023). Accessible Security and Privacy. Open Access. (In preparation).
What is audio description? (from The Audio Description Project)
Switches;