Announcements
- If I forget to start recording when a guest speaker begins, please remind me to press “RECORD!” Thanks in advance.
- Share D&T Phase 2 suggestions through this new form.
- Links for our guest speakers:
Agenda
- 2:00: Chancey Fleet, NYPL Braille and Talking Book Library:
- Chancey is Brooklyn-based accessibility advocate who coordinates technology education programs at the New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library. Chancey was recognized as a 2017 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. She proudly serves as the Vice President of the National Federation of the Blind of New York. Chancey’s links:
- SF Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired,
- Tactile Map Automated Production
- TactileSchematics.com (from NYU ITP student)
- Swell Form tactile printer and specialized paper, WebAim.org (Web Accessibility in Mind)
- Desmos accessible calculator
- JAWS and Magic (screen reader and magnifier) @ NYPL
- SAS Graphics Accelerator, Soundcanvas (Google Creatability Project)
- 3:00 Max Evans, Ocean Engineer:
- Max is a transgender boi (he/him pronouns), Vegas born and raised. MIT 2018 Alum in Mechanical Engineering. An engineer, a designer, a poet activist, and a pun enthusiast. You can find Max hacking around to learn new skills (currently: production managing), playing with my pet dragon Kobold, or writing poetry.
- Max’s presentation and the links Max mentioned:
- Youtube: Monetization & the LGBT community
- More on YouTube & LGBTQ+ issues
- Trans Inclusive Design
- Companies Sharing Data with ICE (audio episode)
- Instagram’s nipple ban (audio episode)
- Code Switch – Census. (audio episode) “This is about POC experience, not queer experience, but something I listened to lately that might be of interest to your class.”
- Talk transcript on Data Collection thothroughrugh forms and Non-Binary Gender
- Gender Verification Technology & Trans AI
- A Dermatologist Is Creating Unnecessary Panic Around Spironolactone (medication for trans women) and COVID-19
- Amid coronavirus outbreak some red states move to restrict abortion, spurring legal fight
- Democrats want to provide mail-in ballots amid COVID-19. Republicans don’t.
- Anti-gay Republican congressman voted against COVID-19 relief bill because it “redefined family”
Assignments
- REQUIRED Phase 2, Blog Post #6: Reflect on the experiences and insights shared by Chancey Fleet and Max Evans in their talks. Feel free to refer to the links they shared (posted above in the class agenda). What does Chancey mean by “dark patterns in accessibility?” What does Max mean by companies that “cede their authority to the algorithm?”
- Please also read the following articles before Tuesday’s class. Some of these articles were assigned before spring break:
- The Economic Case for LGBT+ Inclusion in Kenya. Play special attention to page 29, “How Inclusion Can Fuel Kenya’s Creative and Tech Startup Economies.”
- Channels of Influence: How companies can promote LGBT+ Inclusive Societies
- New Global Champions: Why Fast-Growing Companies from Emerging Markets are Embracing LGBT+ Inclusion
- Neurophysiological Experience of Cyclists in Kuala Lumpur and Nairobi
- Multimer: Validating Multimodal, Cognitive Data in the City
Extra Credit
Watch Chancey Fleet’s talk Dark Patterns in Accessibility Tech (11 minutes) and discuss on your blog. What is meant by “ghostwritten code?”