This is the Spring 2023 website.
- Week 1 (3/27 & 3/29): Introduction to Accessibility
- Week 2 (4/3 & 4/5): Accessibility Assessment 1: Guidelines and Assessment
- Week 3 (4/10 & 4/12): Accessibility Assessment 2: Tradeoffs and Advanced Methods
- Week 4 (4/17 & 4/19): AT Around us Presentations + Fabrication Start
- Week 5 (4/24 & 4/26): Fabrication & Physical Computing for Accessibility
- Week 6 (5/1 & 5/3): Data Equity
- Week 7 (5/8 & 5/10): Accessible Needfinding and Evaluation
- Week 8 (5/15 & 5/17): Intersectionality
- Week 9 (5/22 & 5/24): Sustainability, Urban Access and Housing
- Week 10 (5/31): TBD
- Finals week: Final presentations – time TBD
- # Module 1: Accessibility Basics
Week 1 (3/27 & 3/29): Introduction to Accessibility
Learning Goals
- What is Accessibility? Disability?
- What is the difference between Disability studies, Disability Justice; and various models of disability
- History of disability rights
- Understand models for disability-centered design
- Plain Language
Week Plan
- Monday: Introduction to Accessibility & Disability
- Slides Introduction to Accessibility
- Skill Goal: Learn how accommodations can make a meeting more inclusive
- In class Exercise Put your accommodation needs into PollEverywhere ; discuss what comes up and what else might be relevant
- Small Group Discussion How would you implement this in your workplace? (share)
- Overview of course
- Slides Introduction to Course
Introduction to course syllabus & assignments
- Wednesday: Disability Justice
- Slides In Class Activities
- Skill Goal: Analyze a piece of technology from a Disability Rights perspective
- Small Group Discussion Analysis of the iPhone (share)
- Skill Goal: Analyze a topic from a disability justice perspective
- Small Group Discussion Analyze masking from a disability justice perspective (share)
Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
- Disability Justice Homework Assigned: Pick an access topic and analyze it from a disability justice perspective.
- Readings for next week
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Required: Reading AND Preparation by start of class. Respond to the reading questions by start of class and Preparation requirements.
- Come to next class prepared to use either switch control, a screen reader, or magnification on your phone.
- Accessibility Testing: Read The importance of Manual Accessibility Testing and Respond
- Come to next class prepared with an image you found on the web that does not have ALT text
- ALT text: Read about image alt text and watch It’s complicated and Respond
- Audio Description: Read What is audio description? from The Audio Description Project and Respond
- Optional
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Required: Reading AND Preparation by start of class. Respond to the reading questions by start of class and Preparation requirements.
Week 2 (4/3 & 4/5): Accessibility Assessment 1: Guidelines and Assessment
- Come Prepared
- Come to class with an image, diagram, or other graphic you want to describe; Be prepared (install and try out) one of: switch control, a screen reader, or magnification on your phone
Learning Goals
- What are the current accessibility standards
- Get comfortable with basic image description (images, people)
- 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
Class Plan
- Monday: Introduction to Assessing Accessibility & Practice
- Slides Assessing Accessibility
- Skill Goal: Image Description
- In class Exercise Break into small groups and show each other the inaccessible images you found. Work on a short and long description appropriate to your image type. (google doc)
- Monday: Guidelines 1.1, 1.2, and Automated Assessment
- Slides Continue Assessing Accessibility Cont…
- Skill Goal: Automated Assessment
- In class Exercise Use WebAIM Wave to assess the Seattle Public Schools Website (share
- Wednesday: Guidelines 1.3, 1.4, and Manual Assessment
- Slides Continue Assessing Accessibility Cont…
- Skill Goal: Use Accessibility Technologies to assess the same website
- Slides Assessing Accessibility Cont…
In class Exercise Break into small groups. Each pick one of the following and try out the website
- Screen reader
- Switch input
- Magnification
Try to find something you didn’t find with an automated tool. (share)
Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
- Website/app accessibility Assigned: Assess and write a report
- Readings for next week
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Required Readings: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements.
- Read: About how web semantics are conveyed to screen readers and Respond
- Read: Is your web page accessible? A comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind and Respond
- Read Design, Disability and Knowing the ‘Other’ and Respond
- Read Disability Dongles by Liz Jackson and Respond and Respond
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If you want to dig deeper
- 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
- Watch: Rescribe: Authoring and Automatically Editing Audio Descriptions
Week 3 (4/10 & 4/12): Accessibility Assessment 2: Tradeoffs and Advanced Methods
Learning Goals
- What are the tradeoffs between different tools?
- Beginning to look at study design by example
- More advanced accessibility techniques
- Differences between Image description, Diagram description and UI description
- Video description & Captioning
- Math, Tables & other elements (including custom interactors)
- Navigation and its impact on Accessibility; how to set up proper header structures.
- How to present accessibly
Class Plan
- Discussion: Value of Cumulative Assessment
- In class Exercise Find the students who assessed the same website as you. Talk about the UARs you generated. Did you find different problems from other students? Why do you think you did, or did not, find different problems? share
- In Class Work Time
- Work on your website writeup.
- Wednesday: Best Practices for Improving Accessibility
- Slides Best Practices: Improving Accessibility
Discussion of Disability Dongle Paper
- First Person Accounts & Finding Acessibility Assignment
- Introduction to Finding Accessibility
Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
- Finding Accessibility Assigned: Summarize a first person account of an access technology
- Post-module Reflection: Accessibility Basics Reflection
- Readings for next week
- Required: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements.
Week 4 (4/17 & 4/19): AT Around us Presentations + Fabrication Start
Learning Goals
Class Plan:
- Monday: AT Around Us Presentations
- Accessibility Assessment Assignment
- Wednesday: Fabrication and Accessibility
- Slides Introduction to 3D Printing and Physical Computing
Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
- Create an SVG for an accessible laser cut object
Week 5 (4/24 & 4/26): Fabrication & Physical Computing for Accessibility
Learning Goals
Work with a microcontroller & sensors to actuate accessibility features
Class Plan:
- Monday: In Fab Lab; Manufacture & print laser cut designs; Work with Microcontroller
- Slides TBD
- Wednesday: Continued Work with Microcontroller; Hand in finished laser cut assignment
- Slides TBD
Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
- Readings for next week
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- Required: Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements.
- Increasing Data Equity in Accessibility No ed post for this one :)
- Understanding Screen-Reader Users’ Experiences with Online Data Visualizations Respond
- Data Representation in Accessibility Data Sets: A Meta-analysis Respond
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Areas of Strategic Visibility: Disability Bias in Biometrics and Respond
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Optional
- The Future of Urban Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Data Collection, Analytic, Policy, and Tools
- Explaining Explanations: An Approach to Evaluating Interpretability of Machine Learning
- Rich Screen Reader Experiences for Accessible Data Visualization
- VoxLens: Making Online Data Visualizations Accessible With an Interactive JavaScript Plug-In
Week 6 (5/1 & 5/3): Data Equity
Learning Goals
- Bias in Machine Learning
- What is Machine Learning (ML)?
- What are the components of ML?
- How do we collect data? Who do we collect the data from?
- Is the data “good”?
- How do we minimize disability bias?
- 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?
Class Plan
- Monday: Bias in Machine Learning
- Slides Bias in Machine Learning
- Wednesday: Accessible Data Visualizations
- Slides Accessible Data Visualizations
- Final Project Discussion
- Final Project
Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
- {: .homework} Final Project presentation preparation
- Readings for next week
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Required Readings Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements
- Read Anticipate and Adjust Respond
- Read Alexa & Accessibility and Respond on
- If you want to dig deeper
Week 7 (5/8 & 5/10): Accessible Needfinding and Evaluation
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
- Data Equity and implicit bias
- Beyond automated assessment: Accessible Summative Studies
- 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
Class Plan
- Monday: Introduction to Accessible Evaluation
- Slides Assessing Accessibility
- Monday: Practice Study Design
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Amazon Alexa
- Write down a list of accessibility assessment goals (metrics)
- Write down a sampling goal (who is included)
- Discuss
- Monday: Qualitative Design
- Slides Designing for and with people with disabilities
- Wednesday: Final Project Presentations
Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
Week 8 (5/15 & 5/17): Intersectionality
Class Plan: STILL TBD
In-class exercise:
Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
Week 9 (5/22 & 5/24): Sustainability, Urban Access and Housing
Class Plan: STILL TBD
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Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
Week 10 (5/31): TBD
MONDAY IS A HOLIDAY
Class Plan: STILL TBD
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Preparation for next week
- Class Participation survey
Finals week: Final presentations – time TBD
- Final project presentations
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Optional
- Living Disability Theory: Reflections on Research, Access and Design
- Disability Studies as a source of critical inquiry…
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Vital coronavirus is failing the blind and visually impaired
- Required Readings Respond to the Reading Questions and Preparation Requirements
- AR/VR
- Slides AR/VR
: try out Jon’s tool hopefully