Accessible Future Workshop 5

Both days of this workshop will take place in the same location: Rolfe Hall, Center for Digital Humanities Learning Lab, Room 2118. The closest parking structure to this location is Parking Structure 5, 302 Charles E. Young Drive, North 90095. This is a pay by space garage.

DAY 1

8:30 – 9:00 am

• Registration and Coffee/Continental Breakfast

9:00 – 9:15 am

• Welcome

Session 1: Led by Dr. Tina Herzberg

9:15 – 9:45 am: Lecture

• Philip M. Ferguson, Emily Nusbaum, “Disability Studies: What Is It?”, Research & Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (2012) Vol. 37, No. 2, 70-80.
• Jonathan Lazar, Paul Jaeger, “Reducing Barriers to Online Access for People with Disabilities,,” Issues in Science and Technology(Winter 2011), 69-82.

9:45 – 10:15 am

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

Session 2: Demonstrations of Accessibility Hardware for Disabled Users led by Clay Jeffcoat

10:15 – 11 am: Demonstration: Accessible Hardware for Disabled Users

• Kessler Foundation and National Organization on Disability, “The ADA 20 Years Later: An Executive Summary,” July 2010.

Session 3: Led by Dr. George Williams

11- noon: Lecture and Discussion

• George H. Williams, “Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities,” Debates in Digital Humanities. University of Minnesota Press.
• Sara Hendren, “All Technology is Assistive.”

Noon- 12:45 pm: Lunch

Session 4

12:45 – 1:30 pm: Cognitive Disabilities and the Web

• Suggested reading: “Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility,” Web Accessibility InitativeWebAIM http://webaim.org/articles/cognitive/cognitive_too_little/
• The presentation slide deck on cognitive disabilities and the web is available in PDF form.Cognitive Lecture Accessible Future

1:30-1:45 pm Break 1:45-2:30 pm: Deafness, deafness, and accessibility

• “Deafness and the User Experience,” by Lisa Herrodhttp://alistapart.com/article/deafnessandtheuserexperience
• The presentation slide deck on Deafness, deafness, and accessibility is available in PDF form.Deafness and Accessibility

Session 5: Led by Dr. George Williams and Jeremy Boggs

2:30 – 4:00 pm Evaluating Web Accessibility

• “How People with Disabilities Use the Web,” Web Accessibility Initiative.
• “Considering the User Perspective: A Summary of Design Issues,” Web Accessibility InitiativeWebAIM
• http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200709/10_colour_contrast_checking_tools_to_improve_the_accessibility_of_your_design/
• Browser add ons to simulate color blindness types, e.g. https://addons.mozilla.org/eN-US/firefox/addon/colorblind-design/
• Google Chrome Accessibility Tools:https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/accessibility-developer-t/fpkknkljclfencbdbgkenhalefipecmb?hl=en

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.”) Please also explore Pa11y, the automated accessibility testing system (http://pa11y.org/) and HTML_Codesniffer: http://squizlabs.github.io/HTML_CodeSniffer/ Small Group activity: Evaluation and discussion of a number of online resources, including the following:

• The Shakespeare Quartos Archive
• The William Blake Archive
• The Bracero History Archive
• Cornell University Library: Making of America
• Visualizing Emancipation
• Deaf Studies Digital Journal
• Nineteenth-Century Disability: A Digital Reader
• BrailleSC.org

Session 6: Led by Jeremy Boggs

4-4:30 pm: Integrating accessibility testing into the workflow of projects and workplaces View the session information: http://clioweb.github.io/accessiblefuture/

Day 2

Workshop Location: Rolfe Hall, Center for Digital Humanities Learning Lab, Room 2118. 9:15-9:30 am Coffee

Session 7: Led by Jeremy Boggs

9:30-10:30 am: HTML and CSS Concepts

• Peterson, “Accessibility in HTML5”
• HTML5 Accessibility
• Webplatform.org

View the session information: http://clioweb.github.io/accessiblefuture/

Session 8: Led by Jeremy Boggs and James Smith

10:30-Noon am: Hands On with HTML and CSS to Address Accessibility Issues and Responsive Design Noon- 12:45 pm: Lunch

Session 9: Led by James Smith

12:45-1:30 pm: WordPress

• WordPress Codex Accessibility
• WordPress Accessibility Plugin
• W3C Accessibility Standards

1:30-1:45 pm: Break

Session 10: Led by Jeremy Boggs

1:45-2:45 pm: Working with Omeka

• W3C Accessibility Standards
• Omeka Themes Documentation

Session 10: Led by George Williams and Tina Herzberg

2:45-3:30 pm: Encouraging/soliciting feedback from users with accessibility concerns

Session 11

3:30- 4 pm: Advocating for Accessibility on your campus by creating an Accessibility Statement