CMU 05-499/899: Celebrating Accessibility

This Week

Lectures & Readings

Transportation + Housing + Museums + Libraries

calendar_month Tue Nov 19

link Human rights and the city: Including marginalized communities in urban development and smart cities
link "We should all feel welcome to the park": Intergenerational Public Space and Universal Design in Disinvested Communities
link New York City's Inaccessible Transit System

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Non-Work Activities (e.g. Cooking, exercise, dating, creative arts)

calendar_month Thu Nov 21

Office Hours

Qiaoqiao's office hours are held on the first floor of TCS.

Kristen's office hours are held in her office WEH 4416 inside the Engineering Library.

Patrick's office hours are held in his office 4SC 201. (407 S. Craig St.)

Andrew's office hours are held in his office TCS 441.

See class calendar below for exact times!

Projects

P5 - Project Milestone 2

calendar_month Released Thu Nov 14

calendar_month Due November 26, 2024

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HW4 - Celebrating Accessibility Essay

calendar_month Released Fri Nov 15

calendar_month Due November 26, 2024

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Class Calendar

Weekly Schedule

Date	Lecture	Readings	Project Deadline
Mon Aug 26			HW1 - Accessible Documents and Presentations / Team Formation Skills Survey September 5, 2024 descriptionHandout
Tue Aug 27	Course Introduction
Wed Aug 28
Thu Aug 29	Disabilities Part 1	What do we mean by "Accessibility" research? The Harm in Conflating Aging with Accessibility
Fri Aug 30
Mon Sep 02
Tue Sep 03	Disabilities Part 2 + Team Formation			HW2 - Disability Deep Dive September 11, 2024 descriptionHandout
Wed Sep 04
Thu Sep 05	History of Disability Policy Part 1	Mankoff et al. 2010 - Disability studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of assistive technology Heumann nature: The life and legacy of disability rights activist Judy Heumann
Fri Sep 06
Mon Sep 09
Tue Sep 10	History of Disability Policy Part 2	Cynthia L. Bennett, Erin Brady, and Stacy M. Branham. 2018. Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design Download Interdependence as a Frame for Assistive Technology Research and Design. In Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 161-173. Jampel, C. (2018). Intersections of disability justice, racial justice and environmental justice Download Intersections of disability justice, racial justice and environmental justice. Environmental Sociology, 4(1), 122-135. Excerpts from the movie "Crip Camp." Protest movement to start disability rights: 39:03 - 50:02 Judy Heumann schooling government officials: 1:29:50 - 1:36:07
Wed Sep 11
Thu Sep 12	Assistive Technologies Part 1	History of the white cane User Interface of a Homepage Reader
Fri Sep 13
Mon Sep 16
Tue Sep 17	Assistive Technologies Part 2	Alexander Fiannaca, Ann Paradiso, Mira Shah, and Meredith Ringel Morris. 2017. AACrobat: Using Mobile Devices to Lower Communication Barriers and Provide Autonomy with Gaze-Based AAC. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 683-695 Nina Tran, Richard E. Ladner, and Danielle Bragg. 2023. U.S. Deaf Community Perspectives on Automatic Sign Language Translation. In Proceedings of the 25th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 76, 1-7. Highlights of USA/NZ wheelchair rugby match Tokyo 2020 Paralympics	HW3 - Accessibility Evaluation September 24, 2024 descriptionHandout
Wed Sep 18
Thu Sep 19	AI-Based Assistive Technologies
Fri Sep 20
Mon Sep 23
Tue Sep 24	Software Accessibility Guidelines and Testing	A Primer to Web Accessibility for Designers | by Nicholas Kramer WCAG 2.2 Standard WAI-ARIA Standard Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 Standard
Wed Sep 25
Thu Sep 26	Design Methods	From GenderMag to InclusiveMag: An Inclusive Design Meta-Method Ability Based Design Communications Article	P1 - Project Pitches October 8, 2024 descriptionHandout
Fri Sep 27
Mon Sep 30
Tue Oct 01	IRB-Supported Research	The 1979 Belmont Report Institutional review board (IRB) and ethical issues in clinical research The Milgram Experiement: Obedience to Authority
Wed Oct 02
Thu Oct 03	Disability Advocacy	Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World (DONT READ THE WHOLE BOOK) Chapter 3 from the book Disability Pride Chapter 5 from the book Disability Pride Intersection Advocacy from the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
Fri Oct 04
Mon Oct 07
Tue Oct 08	Project Pitches		P2 - Team Contracts October 11, 2024 descriptionHandout
Wed Oct 09
Thu Oct 10	Team Norming			P3 - Project Specification + Mini-IRB October 29, 2024 descriptionHandout
Fri Oct 11
Mon Oct 14
Tue Oct 15	NO CLASS - Fall Break
Wed Oct 16
Thu Oct 17	NO CLASS - Fall Break
Fri Oct 18
Mon Oct 21
Tue Oct 22	Games and Sports	Computing technologies to increase access to physical activity for people with visual impairments | XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students Beyond Adaptive Sports ASSETS 2021
Wed Oct 23
Thu Oct 24	Virtual Reality VR/AR/XR/MR	Mott, M., Tang, J., Kane, S., Cutrell, E., & Ringel Morris, M. (2020, October). "I just went into it assuming that I wouldn't be able to have the full experience," Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility SeeingVR: A Set of Tools to Make Virtual Reality More Accessible to People with Low Vision	P4 - Project Milestone 1 November 14, 2024 descriptionHandout
Fri Oct 25
Mon Oct 28
Tue Oct 29	Guest Speaker: Prof. Varsha Koushik, Colorado College	Towards augmented reality coaching for daily routines: Participatory design with individuals with cognitive disabilities and their caregivers Keke Wu, Michelle Ho Tran, Emma Petersen, Varsha Koushik, and Danielle Albers Szafir. 2023. Data, Data, Everywhere: Uncovering Everyday Data Experiences for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 804, 1-17.
Wed Oct 30
Thu Oct 31	Responsible AI	Counterventions: a reparative reflection on interventionist HCI A Mulching Proposal
Fri Nov 01
Mon Nov 04
Tue Nov 05	NO CLASS - Democracy Day
Wed Nov 06
Thu Nov 07	Accessible Software Development	Blocks4All Programming Environment Interviews and Observation of Blind Software Developers at Work to Understand Code Navigation Challenges Vocal Programming for People with Upper-Body Motor Impairments Spoken Programs
Fri Nov 08
Mon Nov 11
Tue Nov 12	Inclusive Education	Universal Design for Learning Guidelines Differentiating for Diversity: Using Universal Design for Learning in Elementary Computer Science Education Neurodiversity and the Accessible University: Exploring Organizational Barriers, Access Labor and Opportunities for Change Deaf Kids Code Accessible Computing Education in Colleges and Universities Improving Equity and Access for Graduate Students with Disabilities
Wed Nov 13
Thu Nov 14	Disability Employment	Education for Employment Pathways The Dandelion Principle: Redesigning Work for the Innovation Economy	P5 - Project Milestone 2 November 26, 2024 descriptionHandout
Fri Nov 15				HW4 - Celebrating Accessibility Essay November 26, 2024 descriptionHandout
Mon Nov 18
Tue Nov 19	Transportation + Housing + Museums + Libraries	Human rights and the city: Including marginalized communities in urban development and smart cities "We should all feel welcome to the park": Intergenerational Public Space and Universal Design in Disinvested Communities New York City's Inaccessible Transit System
Wed Nov 20
Thu Nov 21	Non-Work Activities (e.g. Cooking, exercise, dating, creative arts)	A Contextual Inquiry of People with Vision Impairments in Cooking Understanding Visual Arts Experiences of Blind People
Fri Nov 22
Mon Nov 25
Tue Nov 26	Fabrication and DIY for Accessibility		P6 - Project Presentations + Report December 13, 2024
Wed Nov 27
Thu Nov 28	NO CLASS - Thanksgiving
Fri Nov 29
Mon Dec 02
Tue Dec 03	Final Project Presentations
Wed Dec 04
Thu Dec 05	Semester Review
Fri Dec 06
Mon Dec 09
Tue Dec 10
Wed Dec 11
Thu Dec 12
Fri Dec 13	Final Project Report Due!

Staff

Instructors

Andrew Begel

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Patrick Carrington

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Teaching Assistants

Qiaoqiao Ma

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Kristen Scotti

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