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You can track your assignments through our Canvas portal. Please check submission formats for each assignment. Please contact the course staff when in doubt.

Reminder, our class discussion happens using the class discussion board should you have any questions or run into issue, please contact the course staff.

Major Assignments

Link to Assignment Turn in Link Due Date
HW1: Disability Justice EdStem discussion post 1/9
HW2: Web/App Access Assessment Canvas Link 1/23
HW3: Finding AT around us Canvas Link 1/31
HW4: 2nd Wave Accessibility Writeup Canvas Link 2/7
HW5: Final Project TBD Multiple

Competencies

Assignment greading will be broken into two parts, as described in the syllabus. The first part will be completeness, which is 10% of your grade. The second part will be borken into competencies. Some of these are assessed only once, some multiple times. Your We have broken these into categories as described below.

Your grade in the class will be based on whether you achieve competency in each of these topics, meaning that by the last time you are assessed, you are above the cutoff for competency. In addition, you must complete at least 2/3 of the competencies in a category to pass the class.

Disability Awareness and Justice

Competency Asesssed in Which Assignment?
Disability Justice HW1, Final Project
Familiarity with a Range of Accessibility Technologies HW2, HW3
Finding First Person Accounts of Disability Technology HW2, Final Project

Accessibility Compliance

(incomplete list)

Competency Asesssed in Which Assignment?
Accessibility Problem Fixes HW3, Final Project
Accessibility Technology Based Accessibility Checking HW3, Final Project
Automated Accessibility Checking HW3, Final Project
Comfortable Applying Web/App Accessibility Rules HW3, Final Project

Accessible Media

(incomplete list)

Competency Asesssed in Which Assignment?
Accessible Document Creation HW1, HW3, HW4, Final Project
Acessible Presentation Creation HW2, Final Project
Image Description HW2, HW3, Hw4, Final Project
Plain Language Writing HW1, HW4
Presenting Accessibly HW2, Final Project

TBD

Other things will be assessed as assignments are finalized.