The general DHSI schedule is available at DHSI.org.

Course Notes on GoogleDocs

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
  • YouTube: Add Subtitles and Closed Captions
  • Amara subtitle editor
  • Using the Amara Subtitle Editor (Short video demonstrations.)

Afternoon

• Plugins and server-based tools for enhancing accessibility
  • WordPress Accessibility Plugin
  • Infusion Framework and Components
  • Accessible Bootstrap Frameworks, by Adrian Roselli
• 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)
  • Physical Accessibility Audit assignment

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.”