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- Week 1: Introduction to Disability & Accessibility & Accessible Documents
- Week 2: AT Around Us Presentations & Plain Language
- Week 3: Disability Design (cont) & Building Accessible Interfaces
- Week 4: Building & Remediating Accessible Interfaces
- Week 5: Fabrication
- Week 6: Formative work and AI x Accessibility
- Week 7: Project Milestone Presentations
- Week 8: Data Visualization & XR
- Week 9: Intersectionality & Sustainability
- Week 10: Project Milestone 2
- Week 11:
- Finals week: Final presentations
Week 1: Introduction to Disability & Accessibility & Accessible Documents
Wednesday Introduction to Course
- Learning Goals
- What is Accessibility? Disability?
- Some Disability History
- What is competency based grading and how does it work?
- Skill Goal: Learn how accommodations can make a meeting more inclusive (see slides for In class Exercise and post on our Discussion Board)
- At Around US
Friday: Presenting Accessibly
- Learning Goals:
- How to create accessible documents
- How to present accessibly
- Skill Goal: Describe a person (see slides for in class exercise)
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Preparation & Reading
- Bring a visual representation of yourself to class
- Read about Creating Accessible Figures and Tables (DIS) and try out the Image ALT Text Tutorial
- Read “It’s Complicated” (Bennett et al)
- Optional: “Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design.” (Hofmann, et al)
Week 2: AT Around Us Presentations & Plain Language
Wednesday AT Around Us and Plain Language
- 60 minutes of AT Around Us presentations
- Learning Goals:
- Introduction to how to use plain language
- Discussion of best practices in returning research to the disability community, such as member checking, workshops, and creation of prestige opportunities for community members
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Readings and Prep:
- Plain language writing
- Plain language
- Disability Dongles by Liz Jackson, Alex Haagaard, Rua Williams
- Post your response to reading questions for these readings on Ed
- Optional: Design, Disability and Knowing the ‘Other’
Friday Disability Design Models
- Learning Goals
- Understand models for disability-centered design
- Pitfalls and Tropes in Disability Work
- Introduction of Disability Justice and Disability Dongles
- 10 minutes: Discussion of
- Research Paper Analysis and
- Plain Language & sign ups
Week 3: Disability Design (cont) & Building Accessible Interfaces
Wednesday Reading Discussion
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Readings and Prep
- Read this Twitter Thread by Frank Elavsky and the authors’ response.
- Read the original Finger Over paper
- Post your response to reading questions for these readings on Ed
Friday How to build for accessibility
- Read: An epidemiology-inspired, large-scale analysis of mobile app accessibility
- Homework: Improve accessibility of a thing
Week 4: Building & Remediating Accessible Interfaces
Wednesday More discussion of accessible design and standards How to build for accessibility 2
- Readings and Preparation Read any of the following papers about how to describe non photographs (pick one that is of interest to you) and find an example of the thing that paper mentions (e.g. an example GUI, meme, diagram, etc)
- Post your response to reading questions for these readings on Ed
Friday Discussion of barriers to accessible design
- Readings and Preparation
Week 5: Fabrication
Wednesday (in CSE 2 G15) Fabrication and Accessibility
- Introduction to laser cutting, 3d printing & machine knitting
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Preparation (Everyone)
- Lasercutting with Tinkercad and join our Tinkercard Classroom and complete the tutorial in our Laser Cut Accessibility Aid activity.
- Reading Assignment:
- Optional: Consumer-Grade Fabrication and Its Potential to Revolutionize Accessibility, CACM 2019.
Friday (in CSE 2 G15) Working on Lasercutting Project
- Fabrication lab: Making an accessible thing using a laser cutter
Week 6: Formative work and AI x Accessibility
Wednesday Formative Accessibility Work
- Learning Goals
- Formative studies methods for inclusive design
- Accessible studies for disabled participants and researchers
- Read Anticipate and Adjust CHI 2022
- Post your response to reading questions for these readings on Ed
Friday AIxAccessibility
- Learning Goals
- What are some of the risks and opportunities in using AI for accessibility
- Skill Goal: Develop Benchmark Tasks, with a focus on ableism in generative AI (in class exercise)
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AI Readings and Preparation
- Read Risks and Opportunities in AI-based Applications for People with Disabilities (On Canvas; CACM, To Appear)
- Read GenAssist: Making Image Generation Accessible UIST 2023
- Optional: Data Representation in Accessibility Data Sets: A Meta-analysis
Week 7: Project Milestone Presentations
Project milestone presentations (written & presented)
Week 8: Data Visualization & XR
Wednesday Accessible Data Visualizations
- Learning Goals
- 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?
- In-class work on an accessible visualization
- Readings and Preparation
- Optional: VoxLens: Making Online Data Visualizations Accessible With an Interactive JavaScript Plug-In
Friday XR/AR/VR
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Readings and Preparation (Sustainability)
- A systematic literature review of handheld augmented reality solutions for people with disabilities;
- AR4VI: AR as an accessibility tool for people with visual impairments;
- Available now: OverTHERE; Honor Everywhere; Accessibility, Disabilities, and Virtual Reality Solutions
- Optional: SeeingVR: A set of tools to make virtual reality more accessible to people with low vision.
Week 9: Intersectionality & Sustainability
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Readings and Preparation (Intersectionality)
- Harrington: Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability and Accessibility
- Listen/watch to one of the following first person accounts
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Stop Doing That! With Nyle DiMarco January 30, 2019 Act 3 Full Frontal on TBS, Samanth Bee and Nyle DiMarco explain what harms often occur when police encounter Deaf people - Chicas talk disability Police Interactions with People With Disabilities
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AAC User Perspectives on Racism and Disability. From time 42:25 Podcast Website YouTube at Timestamp Transcription
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- Optional: Anything from the 20au CREATE seminar
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Readings and Preparation (Sustainability)
- Kelley-Costello: A just transition for disabled people
- Hamidi and Karachiwalla: “I’m ok because I’m alive”: understanding socio-cultural accessibility barriers for refugees with disabilities in the US
- Optional: Anything from the 24w CREATE seminar; Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future
Week 10: Project Milestone 2
Project milestone presentations (written & presented)
Week 11:
Finals week: Final presentations
June 6, 2024, 230-420 pm, LOW 101