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
- 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? 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:
- 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 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