Weekly Schedule

Sep 22 (Week 1): Introduction to Disability & Accessibility

Introduction to Disability & Accessibility

Sep 22
No Class
Sep 24
Introduction to Course
Slides
Learn how accommodations can make a meeting more inclusive
Skill Goal
Sep 29 (Week 2): Accessible Design; Presenting Accessibly

Accessible Design; Presenting Accessibly

Sep 29
Finish Introduction to Course; Document and Presentation Accessibility
Slides
Bring a hard to describe image to class (ideally one you have on a web page or in a paper and would update); Read the most relevant paper (Decorative and branding; Diagrams; Visualizations; Memes; GUIS; (AR/VR); Rich Interaction Components;CAPTCHAs
Prep Skill
Creating Accessible Figures and Tables (DIS) and BBC Guide
Read
Dungeons and Dragons taught me how to write ALT text; “It’s Complicated” (Bennett et al);
Optional
At Around US
HW 1 assigned
Oct 01
Accessible design models (RJ; GB)
Student Leads
Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Access, Research, and Design. (Hofmann, et al)
Optional
Oct 6 (Week 3): Plain Language & AT Around Us

Plain Language & AT Around Us

Oct 6
Practice with Plain Language
Slides
Plain language writing and Plain language
Read
At Around US
HW 1 due
Research Analysis
HW 2 assigned
Oct 08
80 minutes of AT Around Us presentations
AT Around Us Presentations
Oct 13 (Week 4): Building Accessible Interfaces and Intersectionality

Building Accessible Interfaces and Intersectionality

Oct 13
Building Accessible Interfaces
Slides
Accessibility Assessment
Skill Goal
An epidemiology-inspired, large-scale analysis of mobile app accessibility
Read
Research Analysis
HW 2 due
Improve accessibility of a thing
HW 3 assigned
Oct 15
Intersectionality (NP)
Student Leads
Harrington: Working at the Intersection of Race, Disability and Accessibility
Read
Listen to one of: Stop Doing That!; Chicas talk disability; From time 42:25 Podcast Website | YouTube at Timestamp | Transcription
Listen/watch
Oct 20 (Week 5): Fabrication

Fabrication

Oct 20
Fabrication & Accessibility
Slides
Consumer Grade Fabrication and Accessibility
Read
Lasercutting Design
Skill Goal
Oct 22
Guest lecture from Maya Cakmak on Human-Robot Interaction
Cakmak: Do People Really Want Humanoid Robots in Their Homes? Companies pour billions into a vision we should be skeptical of
Read
Oct 27 (Week 6): Sustainability

Sustainability

Oct 27
Sustainability (EA)
Student Leads
Kelley-Costello: A just transition for disabled people
Read
Hamidi and Karachiwalla: “I’m ok because I’m alive”: understanding socio-cultural accessibility barriers for refugees with disabilities in the US
Read
Anything from the 24w CREATE seminar
Optional
Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future
Optional
Improve accessibility of a thing
HW 3 due
Proposal
HW 4 assigned
Proposal
In Class discussion
Oct 29
(in CSE 2 G15) Working on Lasercutting Project with Paul Dietz
  • Fabrication lab: Making an accessible thing using a laser cutter
Proposal Group Formation Support
Organize individually please (ASSETS)
Nov 3 (Week 7): ASSETS & Proposals

ASSETS & Proposals

Nov 3
Project Proposal Discussion
Checkpoint
HW 5 assigned
Nov 05
AI and Accessibility (ML; KG)
Student Leads
EditScribe: Non-Visual Image Editing with Natural Language Verification Loops
Read
Understanding Blind and Low-Vision People’s Perception of Hallucination in Large Vision Language Models
Read
“I look at it as the king of knowledge”: How Blind People Use and Understand Generative AI Tools
Optional
ProgramAlly: Creating Custom Visual Access Programs via Multi-Modal End-User Programming
Further Context
GenAssist: Making Image Generation Accessible
Further Context
Probing the Gaps in ChatGPT Live Video Chat for Real-World Assistance for People who are Blind or Visually Impaired
Further Context
Nov 10 (Week 8): Inclusive Studies & Visualization

Inclusive Studies & Visualization

Nov 10
Inclusive Studies (YM)
Student Leads
Anticipate and Adjust; IDD & Trauma
Read
Nov 12
Robotics, health & accessibility presentation (Dr. Suzuki, 1:30-2:10)
Slides
Vizualization (JL, 2:10-2:50)
Student Leads
Beyond Vision Impairments: Redefining the Scope of Accessible Data Representations;
Read
Increasing Data Equity in Accessibility
Optional
VoxLens: Making Online Data Visualizations Accessible With an Interactive JavaScript Plug-In
Optional
Nov 17 (Week 9): Higher Education and Accessibility

Higher Education and Accessibility

Nov 17
Project Checkpoint Discussion
HW 5
Checkpoint 2
HW 6 assigned
Nov 19
Higher Ed (TR; JD)
Student Leads
Framing: how we navigate Maintaining the Accessibility Ecosystem: a Multi-Stakeholder Analysis of Accessibility in Higher Education
Read
Framing: what we teach Beyond HCI: The need for accessibility Across the CS curriculum
Read
Ungrading for access and equity
Optional
Accessibility Work in Academia: Balancing Needs, Bridging Gaps, and Breaking Down Barriers
Optional
Nov 24 (Week 10): Collaboration

Collaboration

Nov 24
Collaboration (TKB)
Student Leads
Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design
Read
Envisioning Collective Communication Access: A Theoretically-Grounded Review of Captioning Literature from 2013-2023
Optional
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3517428.3544812
Optional
Nov 26
Project Checkpoint Discussion
HW 6
Final Project
HW 7 assigned
Dec 1 (Week 11): Software Engineering & Accessibility

Software Engineering & Accessibility

Dec 1
Software Engineering (EL)
Student Leads
Accessibility people, you go work on that thing of yours over there”: Addressing Disability Inclusion in AI Product Organizations
Read
System-class Accessibility The architectural support for making a whole system usable by people with disabilities
Read
Accessibility in Software Practice: A Practitioner’s Perspective;
Optional
How are People with Disabilities Embraced in Software Development Teams? A Systematic Literature Review
Optional
Dec 03
Final Project Presentations
HW 8
Dec 8 (Week 12): Topics we won't get to

Topics we won't get to

Accessibility and Course Design

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