Course Agenda 2019
The general DHSI schedule is available at DHSI.org.
Monday: 10 June
Morning
- Course Overview and introductions
Afternoon
- Keyword Discussion: Accessibility, Accommodation, Disability
- Universal design
Readings
Essential
- Shakespeare, Tom. “The Social Model of Disability.” [PDF]
- WebAIM. “Considering the User Perspective: A Summary of Design Issues.”
- Williams, George H. “Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities.“
- Godden, Rick, and Jonathan Hsy. “Universal Design and Its Discontents.“
Recommended
- Adams, Rachel, Benjamin Reiss, and David Serlin. “Disability.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
- Ellis, Katie, and Mike Kent. “Universal Design in a Digital World.” [PDF]
- Williamson, Bess. “Access.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
Tuesday: 11 June
Morning
- Universal design revisited
- Cognitive disability, neurodiversity
Afternoon
- Cognitive disability, neurodiversity continued
- Disability and online environments
- Document design and structured data
- Designing for screenreader
Readings
Essential
- Hendren, Sara. “All Technology Is Assistive: Six Design Rules on ‘Disability.’“
- WebAIM. “Cognitive Disabilities, Part 1: We Still Know Too Little, and We Do Even Less.“
- WebAIM. “Cognitive Disabilities, Part 2: Conceptualizing Design Considerations.“
- WebAIM. “Constructing a POUR Website” (multi-part article)
Recommended
- Caeton, D. A. “Blindness.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
- Cachia, Amanda. “Talking Blind: Disability, Access, and the Discursive Turn.“
- Lazar, Jonathan, and Paul Jaeger. “Reducing Barriers to Online Access for People with Disabilities.” [PDF]
- Savarese, Ralph James. “Cognition.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
Wednesday: 12 June
Morning
- Evaluating digital accessibility
- Working with audio and video
- Fangs Screen Reader Emulator for Firefox
- Audio descriptions, captions, transcripts
Afternoon
- Plugins and server-based tools for enhancing accessibility
- Accessibility Audit, digital environment
- Digital Accessibility Audit assignment: http://bit.ly/DHSIaccess-audit1
- Easy Checks – A First Review of Web Accessibility (World Wide Web Consortium: Web Accessibility Initiative)
- HTML Validator provided by the World Wide Web Consortium
- CSS Validator provided by the World Wide Web Consortium
- HTML_Codesniffer bookmarklet (works with any browser)
- tota11y bookmarklet (works with any browser)
- Firefox web browser
- WAVE Firefox Extention
- Chrome web browser
- WAVE Chrome Extension
Readings
Essential
- Herrod, Lisa. “Deafness and the User Experience.“
- Zdenek, Sean. “Which Sounds Are Significant? Towards a Rhetoric of Closed Captioning.“
Recommended
- Cogdell, Christina. “Design.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
- Baynton, Douglas C. “Deafness.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
Thursday: 13 June
Morning
- Gaming and disability
- Accessibility audits (built environment)
Afternoon
- Cyborgs, Embodiment, Post-Humanism (and the built environment?
Readings
Essential
- Gibbons, Sarah. “Disability, Neurological Diversity, and Inclusive Play: An Examination of the Social and Political Aspects of the Relationship between Disability and Games.”
- Gibbons, Sarah. “Playing for Transcendence Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Disability”
- Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” [PDF]
- Hayles, N. Katherine. “Prologue,” “Chapter One: Toward Embodied Virtuality,” and “Chapter Eleven: Conclusion: What Does It Mean To Be Posthuman?” How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics. [PDF]
- Wilkerson, Abby. “Embodiment.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
Recommended
- Imbrue, Rob. “Space.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
- Monique, “Exclusive Interview: #DisabilityTooWhite Creator Vilissa Thompson.“
- Norman, Donald A. “The Psychopathology of Everyday Things.” [PDF]
- Ott, Katherine. “Prosthetics.” (Keywords for Disability Studies) [PDF]
- Saxena, Jaya. “#DisabilityTooWhite Calls Out Media For Not Depicting Disabled POC.”
- Siebers, Tobin. “Disability and the Theory of Complex Embodiment: For Identity Politics in a New Register.” [PDF]
Friday: 14 June
Morning
- Avoiding “the retrofit”
- Making accessibility a central part of project workflow
- Recruiting partners and collaborators
- Recognizing barriers to enacting accessibility / Brainstorming ways to get beyond those barriers
- HTML/CSS: Online resources for learning / learning more
- Accessibility: Online resources for learning / learning more
Lunch
Course exhibition
Readings
- Pryal, Katie Rose Guest. “Accessibility v. Accommodation.”
- Pryal. “This Is What Accessibility Looks Like.”
- Pryal. “Accessibility is for Everyone.”