In the schedule below, the exam dates are definite; the readings are approximate. Any changes will be announced in class and on the class homepage. It is your responsibility to be aware of any changes made to this schedule.
NOTE: the way this schedule works is that you are expected to have read the stuff listed for each day before you show up in class on that day.
| Date | Topic and Reading |
|
|---|---|---|
| January | 16 |
Discussion of course goals and procedures.
|
| 18 |
Look over sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of
“A Basic UNIX Tutorial”;
Homework 0 due
|
|
| 20 |
Look over section 10 of
“A Basic UNIX Tutorial”;
Michalko: The Two-in-One, chapter 1
|
|
| 23 |
Michalko: The Two-in-One, chapter 2;
mini-homework from Lab 1
|
|
| 25 |
Constructing a website on a LINUX/Apache system (Lab 2)
|
|
| 27 |
Homework 1 due;
review UNIX reading as appropriate
|
|
| 30 |
Duckett: chapter 3 (skim chapters 1 and 2)
|
|
| February | 1 |
Jakob Nielsen:
Usability 101: Introduction to Usability;
Michalko: The Two-in-One, chapter 2;
Homework 2 due
|
| 3 |
Jakob Nielsen:
Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design;
Michalko: The Two-in-One, chapter 3;
Homework 3 due
|
|
| 6 |
Do the reading/homework in this order:
|
|
| 8 |
Duckett: chapter 9, pages 265-283;
Arditi:
Making Text Legible:
Designing for People with Partial Sight
|
|
| 10 |
Duckett: chapter 9, pages 283-320
|
|
| 13 |
Michalko: The Two-in-One, chapter 4
(update your Michalko document on warp);
Danny Sullivan: How To Use HTML Meta Tags;
Homework 5 due
|
|
| 15 |
Duckett: chapter 5;
Homework 6 due
| |
| 17 |
Roger Hudson: Accessible Data Tables;
Homework 7 due
|
|
| 20 |
Lie and Bos: Cascading Style Sheets, designing for the Web,
chapter 2;
Lie and Bos: chapter 15 (handout);
Homework 8 due
|
|
| 22 |
Michalko: The Two-in-One, chapter 5
(update your Michalko document on warp)
|
|
| 24 |
Homework 9 due
|
|
| 27 | Duckett, chapter 10
|
|
| March | 1 | Duckett, chapter 11
|
| 3 | Duckett, chapter 12
|
|
| 6 |
Michalko: The Two-in-One, chapter 6
(update your Michalko document on warp);
Homework 10 due
|
|
| 8 |
Duckett: chapter 6 (up to but not including "Select Boxes")
|
|
| 10 |
Duckett: chapter 6 (pp. 177-202)
|
|
| 11-26 | Spring Break
|
|
| 27 |
Michalko: The Two-in-One, chapter 7
(update your Michalko document on warp)
|
|
| 29 |
Homework 11 due
|
|
| 31 |
Homework 12 due
|
|
| April | 3 |
Read the W3C
Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines 1.0
|
| 5 |
Read the W3C
Techniques for Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines 1.0
|
|
| 7 |
Look over the W3C
Core Techniques for Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines 1.0, the
HTML Techniques for Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines 1.0, and the
CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibilty Guidelines 1.0
|
|
| 10 |
Review W3C accessibility documents
|
|
| 12 |
Michalko: The Two-in-One, Epilogue
(update your Michalko document on warp)
|
|
| 14 |
No reading—work on your accessibility audit
|
|
| 17 |
No reading—prepare for today's audit meeting
|
|
| 19 |
Read "Spitzer Agreement to Make Web Sites Accessible to the Blind and Visually Impaired"
and the Ramada Franchise Systems Assurance of Discontinuance.
|
|
| 21 |
Read New York State's Statewide Technology Policy P04-002:
Accessibility of State Agency Web-based Intranet and Internet Information and Applications
|
|
| 24 |
Read New York State's
NYS Mandatory Technology Standard S04-001
|
|
| 26 |
Jakob Nielsen:
F-Shaped Pattern For Reading Web Content and
Hyped Web Stories Are Irrelevant
|
|
| 28 |
Read the 1998 Amendment to Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act
|
|
| May | 1 |
Read the Preamble
and the Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards
published by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
(the ‘Access Board’)
|
| 3 |
Look through “Questions Answered by the Experts”
published by the Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center
at Georgia Tech.
|
|
| 5 |
Class and Charter Day—no class
|
|
| 12 |
Final Project due
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