Before class:
Required
- Read Mara Mills’s (2015) essay “Listening to Images: Audio Description, the Translation Overlay, and Image Retrieval.”
- Explore Shannon Finnegan and Bojana Coklyat’s Alt Text as Poetry project and (2020) workbook. Consider how your personal digital experiences might shift if the principles outlined by Finnegan and Coklyat were to be widely embraced by content creators.
Recommended
- See “Making Accessible Media: Accessible Design in Digital Media,” offered by Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
- Writing alternative text can be difficult. See notes on ‘Alternative Text for Images’ at the Accessible Syllabus for practical assistance.
During class:
Activities
- Complicating pictures (~35 minutes)
- Class discussion: alt-text and universal design (~45 minutes)
After class:
- Continue your Attentive Repetition practice and Log entries.
Madeline Donald 