Accessible Future Workshop 2

DAY 1

8:30 – 9:00 am

  • Registration and Coffee

9:00 – 9:15 am

  • Welcome

Session 1: Led by Dr. Tina Herzberg

9:15 – 9:45 am

9:45 – 10:15 am

  • Group Activity: Defining Accessibility for oneself. What is your personal definition?

10:15 – 10:30 am

  • Discussion

10:30 – 10:45 am

  • Break

10:45 – 11:30 am

  • Kessler Foundation and National Organization on Disability, “The ADA 20 Years Later: An Executive Summary,” July 2010. Available here
  • Demonstrating how blind and deaf users use digital resources.
  • Demonstration of accessibility tools.

Session 2a: Led by Dr. George Williams

11:30 – 12:30ish pm

  • George H. Williams, “Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities,” Debates in Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press. Available here

12:30 – 1:30 pm

  • Lunch

Session 3: Led by Dr. George Williams

2:00 – 3:00 pm

  • “How People with Disabilities Use the Web,” _Web Accessibility Initiative. _Available here
  • “Considering the User Perspective: A Summary of Design Issues,” Web Accessibility InitiativeWebAIM
  • Discussion of readings.

Session 4: Led by Dr. George Williams

3:00 – 4:00 pm Either use the WAVE web page interface, or download and install the WAVE Toolbar for Firefox.

  • The WAVE Firefox toolbar provides a mechanism for running WAVE accessibility reports directly within Firefox.

(See also “Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools: Overview.”) Evaluation and discussion of a number of online resources, including the following:

4:00 – 4:15 pm

  • Break

Session 6: Led by Dr. George Williams

4:15 – 5:00 pm

  • Information density and non-visual issues in accessibility