Community Workshop and Design Crit Topics from 2018
Topic | Format | Facilitator | Date | Links / Notes |
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ELIA Font | Community Workshop | Byron Johnson, Andrew Chepaitis | December 12, 2018 |
Description: ELIA Life Technology (ELT) is a public benefit corporation that develops assistive technology for people who have a visual impairment. The company’s flagship product is the ELIA Frames™ font: an intuitive tactile font for people who are previously sighted. Designed with independence in mind, the ELIA Frames™ font has been developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health.
ELIA Frames™ was formally introduced to the world with a successful Kickstarter Campaign and debuted at the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum. The company is a member of the NEW INC. cultural incubator, affiliated with the New Museum.
Andrew Chepaitis is the president and CEO. Byron Johnson is the Research and Operations Manager. ELT is based in Brooklyn, NY. |
Co-design with SEWA in Ahmedabad, India | Design Crit | Dana and Michelle | December 11, 2018 | Dana and Michelle will give a recap of their trip to India and the co-design they did there. |
Addressing Institutional Barriers to Access in Financial Systems | Community Workshop | Kris Coward | November 28, 2018 | An estimated 1.7 billion people lack access to financial services through traditional banking systems, often due to systemic barriers such as having to meet identification requirements (while living in a jurisdiction without an adequately functioning civil society to issue the necessary identification). Cryptocurrencies have been touted as possible solution, but introduce their own barriers to access, as well as suffering from barriers between crypto-finance and traditional finance. These barriers will be examined, as well as technical and policy measures that can help remove them. |
WCAG 2.1 changes | Community Workshop | Lisa | November 21, 2018 | We will be discussing updates to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in version 2.1. |
Prefs Framework | Community Workshop | Justin | November 14, 2018 | We’ll be talking about the Preferences Framework, the framework behind UI Options and other preferences editors. We’ll be discussing the integrator experience and, if time, the user experience and future plans for the preferences framework. |
IDRC Website Design | Design Crit | Jon, Michelle | November 13, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday November 13th, Michelle and I will be revisiting the IDRC website designs created 2 years ago, and discuss some possible changes and updates. |
"Seeing with Other Eyes" | Community Workshop | Lisa | November 7, 2018 | Lisa will be recapping, "Seeing with Other Eyes”, a photography exhibit by and for the visually impaired at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. |
SJRK and Platform Co-op websites | Design Crit |
| November 6, 2018 | We will be covering the SJRK website mockups, and if time permitting, discuss platform co-op site design as well. |
Design History and Speculative Future of UIO | Community Workshop | Alan | October 31, 2018 | Description:
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Template for doing co-design for the Inclusive Cities Toolkit | Design Crit |
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Feedback for Social Justice Repair Kit website design | Design Crit |
| October 30, 2018 |
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Project Show and Tell | Design Crit |
| October 24, 2018 | We’ll be making the time available for doing a “show and tell” for some of our projects. If you have something that you’d like to quickly show and talk about, please let me know. |
GSoC Mentors Summit Debrief | Community Workshop | Gregor | October 17, 2018 | Gregor will be providing a debrief from this years GSoC (Google Summer of Code) mentor’s summit. |
DEEP 2018 debrief | Design Crit |
| October 16, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday October 16th, we will be doing a debrief and retrospective on this year's DEEP conference. |
On Continuing Creativity and What Lies in the Path of the Revolution: Thinking through the hard problems of designing, using, and changing software in practice. | Community Workshop | Colin Clark, Antranig Basman, Philip Tchernavskij | October 3, 2018 | Colin, Antranig, and Philip will be talking about On Continuing Creativity and What Lies in the Path of the Revolution: Thinking through the hard problems of designing, using, and changing software in practice. |
Documenting Accessibility in Wireframes | Community Workshop | Rob Carr | September 26, 2018 | Description:
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DEEP 2018 presentations part 2 | Design Crit | Jon Hung | September 25, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday September 25th, we will be continuing our planning of the DEEP conference. I will be facilitating the discussion about the 5 minute Open House stories, and how we might impart inclusive flavours to the narratives we share. |
Connecting Offline Learners to the World's Knowledge | Community Workshop | Nicole Comforto | September 19, 2018 | Description:
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DEEP conference preparations | Design Crit |
| September 18, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday Sep 18, we will be talking about the DEEP upcoming conference on October 12 - 13. We'll be talking about presentations, demos, and IDRC roles during the 2 day conference / party. |
The Republic of Childhood: Learning from the Future | Community Workshop | Neil Wilson | September 12, 2018 | Description:
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UIO word spacing icon | Design Crit |
| September 11, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday September 11th, we will be talking about the word spacing icon for UI Options. We will be looking for ideas for how word spacing can be represented as a graphic that scales well on a variety of devices and contexts. |
Creating a Meaningful Involvement Prototype for WCAG Silver | Community Workshop | Cybele Sack | September 5, 2018t | Description:
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New Inclusive Housing Model - Feedback Session | Community Workshop | Chris Zhang / Mohsen Mahjoobnia | August 29, 2018 | Description:
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UI Options Plus text-to-speech | Design Crit | Justin | August 28, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday August 28th, Justin will be asking for some quick feedback on the on-demand selected text-to-speech feature of UI Options Plus. There will be some extra time to cover other topics, so other discussions are welcome. |
Smart Cities | Community Workshop | Gillian / Syeda | August 22, 2018 | Gillian and Syeda will be presenting a report on smart cities from around the world. They will discuss the definition of “smart cities” and different understandings associated with the term, do a brief overview of a few smart cities that are successful and others that have a strong strategic plan to becoming “smart”, and present criticisms/feedback they have received from experts. |
Meaningful Involvement Prototype for Silver (WCAG) | Design Crit | Cybele | August 21, 2018 | This design crit is an opportunity to share ideas to increase meaningful involvement of people with disabilities in accessibility of digital content and tools. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are going through a generational transformation in the form of the Silver Task Force (AG). I'd like to get feedback on a process, prototype, user testing, and conformance model for this initiative. |
Presentation on GSoC 2018 Projects | Community Workshop | GSoC Students | August 15, 2018 | Description:
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Designing a way-finding tool for people with cognitive difficulties | Community Workshop | Neeta Khanuja | August 7, 2018 | Description:
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Inclusive Activities Brainstorming | Community Workshop | Jon Hung | August 1, 2018 | |
Exoskeleton Devices | Community Workshop | John Byrne | July 25, 2018 | |
Co-design activities for inclusive cities | Design Crit |
| July 24, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday July 24th, we will be talking about co-design activities related to designing for inclusive cities. We would like to talk about, and get feedback for, new activities that we want to do in different communities. |
MyData - A human-centered approach to personal data management | Community Workshop | Teemu Ropponen | July 18, 2018 | Description:
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Youth activism resources | Design Crit |
| July 17, 2018 | For the design crit July 17th, we will be reviewing the Social Justice Repair Kit resourcesand assist with generating a list of resources that are of interest to youth activist groups. |
Adding more contrast choices to UI Options | Design Crit |
| July 10, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday July 10th, we will be chatting about adding additional contrast themes to the contrast adjuster in UI Options, and how the adjuster can be changed to accommodate more settings. |
BIG IDeA and Our Doors Are Open | Community Workshop | David Pereyra | July 4, 2018 | |
Accessible Media Production program at Mohawk College | Community Workshop | Jennifer Jahnke | June 27, 2018 | https://www.mohawkcollege.ca/programs/graduate-studies/accessible-media-production-390 |
Storytelling tool technical audit | Design Crit | Alan, Gregor | June 26, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday June 26th, Alan and Gregor will lead an examination of the software design and architecture of the Storytelling Tool. |
Inclusive Design and Frugal Design | Community Workshop | Daniel Ura | June 20, 2018 | |
Storytelling tool Colombia trip debrief (Part 2) | Design Crit | Michelle, Dana | June 19, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday June 19, Michelle and Dana will continue sharing their experiences from Colombia where they visited two rural schools and attended a workshop in the city of Medellín, organised by Karisma. They will show some photos and talk about what they did with the students and at the workshop, and some of the issues that came up with the storytelling tool. Hopefully also discuss collectively next steps. |
Storytelling tool Colombia trip debrief | Design Crit | Michelle, Dana | June 12, 2018 | For the design crit Tuesday June 12, Michelle and Dana will be sharing about their experiences in Colombia where they visited two rural schools and attended a workshop in the city of Medellín, organised by Karisma. They will show some photos and talk about what they did with the students and at the workshop, and some of the issues that came up with the storytelling tool. Hopefully also discuss collectively next steps. |
co-op student presentation | Community Workshop | co-op students | June 6, 2018 | |
Fable | Community Workshop | Abid Virani | May 30, 2018 | "Fable Tech Labs is trying to make it easier to engage people who live with a disability in the QA process. Our prototype allows companies to submit tickets to our community, test a user story, and receive a report on their experience. We are currently working towards a beta product, which will allow a ticket to reach up to ten users and allow clients to see data populate live. Our goal is to be the next step after using automated tools, with emphasis on creating great customer experiences." You can learn more about them at http://www.makeitfable.com |
Inclusive Cities website and IDRC 25th Anniversary Logo | Design Crit |
| May 29, 2018 |
http://cities.inclusivedesign.ca
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Laboratory Assistive Devices - Collaboration & Distribution | Community Workshop | Ronald Soong | May 23, 2018 | |
Firefox accessibility Inspector, AOM, and etc. | Community Workshop | Yura Zenevich | May 16, 2018 | |
Faraday's Law PhET simulation | Design Crit | Jon Hung | May 15, 2018 |