Accessible Future Workshop 3

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 Initiative _WebAIM
• 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

Day 2

Registration and Coffee 8:30 – 9:00 am

Session 5: Jeremy Boggs (HTML/CSS)

9:00 – 11:30 am

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

Break 11:30 – 11:45 am

Session 6: Dr. George Williams (WordPress)

11:45 am – 12:45 pm

• WordPress Codex Accessibility
• WordPress Accessibility Plugin

Lunch 12:45 – 2:00 pm

Session 7: Cory Bohon (Omeka)

2:00 – 2:45 pm

• W3C Accessibility Standards
• Omeka Theme Writing Best Practices

Break 2:45 – 3:15 pm

Session 8: Dr. Jennifer Guiliano

3:15 – 4:30 pm Wrap Up 4:30 – 5:00 pm