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Human-Centered Accessible Design

Competency Contract​

  • Primary competency: HCI-ACCESSIBLE-001
  • Mastery: explain, apply, develop, and evaluate as required by the semester assessment
  • Status: required evidence strand; its 30–44 focused-hour allocation is included in Module 5 within the semester workload, with no additional semester

Required Work​

Discover a real task, observe usability, revise from evidence, and verify the resulting workflow against applicable WCAG 2.2 criteria.

Evidence Contract​

  • discovery brief
  • usability protocol and retest
  • WCAG 2.2 audit
  • rejected alternative.

Assessment Integration​

  • Project: produce the evidence in the semester repository rather than as detached prose.
  • Checkpoint: show the evidence exists and identify its highest-risk gap.
  • Cumulative review: connect the work to current, previous, and two-semesters-back knowledge.
  • Exam: evaluate a new case and reject an attractive but unsafe or unsupported alternative.
  • Rubric: every required evidence category must pass; strengths cannot average away a missing category.
  • Answer key: calibrate the shape of evidence without prescribing one implementation.

Oral Defense​

Defend how user or accessibility evidence changed the component and why scanner-only evidence is insufficient.

AI-Use Declaration​

Record tools and models used, material output accepted, rejected suggestions, and independent verification. Undeclared generated evidence fails the integrity gate.

Reading Route​

Start with the linked semester concepts and labs. Use local books selectively for conceptual depth and current official standards for normative requirements. Stop reading when you can produce and defend the required evidence.