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January 13th:
Introduction, overview, and motivation (Jen and Jeff)
Perspectives on Disability (Jen)
Screen reader demonstration (Chieko Asakawa)
TODO
Complete the following four readings by Thursday:
Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness
Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language
Project 1: Accessibility of Web Design Tools assigned
January 15th:
Overview of Web Structures and Accessibility Tools [Slides]
January 20th:
Student presentations on Project 1: Accessibility of the Web Design Tools (5-10 minutes each)
More Web Technology
January 22nd:
HTML & CSS Accessibility in more depth [Slides]
Project 2: Make an accessible form assigned.
Readings:
W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
WebAim Introduction to Web Accessibility
January 27th:
HTML5 Accessibility
11:00am: Guest Speaker: Larry Goldberg (Yahoo!)
Readings (by start of class):
The Google Accessibility Tools Pages
January 29th:
Issues in evaluation [Slides]
Required Reading: Nielsen-Norman Report
Optional Reading:
Mankoff, J., Fait, H., & Tran, T. (2005). Is your web page accessible?: a comparative study of methods for assessing web page accessibility for the blind. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 41-50). ACM.
Project 3: HCII Website Accessibility Evaluation assigned
February 3rd
Accessible Online Content Creation by End Users [Slides]
Required Reading:
Kuksenok, K., Brooks, M. & Mankoff, J. (2013). Accessible online content creation by end users. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems (pp. 59-68). ACM.
February 5th
Project 3: HCII Website Accessibility Evaluation (due 2/5).
Presentations of Project 3.
February 10th
Last presentation of project 3 & individual meetings about final projects.
February 12th
Luz Rello on Dyslexia and the Web.
February 17th
Crowdsourcing and Accessibility
February 19th
Guest lecture by Ed Lopresti on Cognitive Accessiblity
Abstract: Some computer users have difficulties with cognitive tasks such as memory, problem-solving, attention, or processing of text or other types of information. These difficulties can result from developmental disabilities such as intellectual disability, autism, or learning disabilities; or acquired disabilities such as brain injury, stroke, or age-related memory difficulties. This presentation will address the needs of people with cognitive disabilities, and ways in which the visual design and content of websites can be constructed to meet those needs. The presentation will also consider application of these cognitive accessibility principles to software design in general.
Readings:
Cognitive Accessibility: http://webaim.org/articles/cognitive/
Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility: http://webaim.org/articles/evaluatingcognitive/
Lewis, C. “Cognitive Disabilities.” In Stephanidis, C. (Ed.). (2009). The universal access handbook. CRC
Press. Pages 7-101 to 7-112.
February 24th
Guest lecture and/or final project presentations
February 26th
Final project presentations