Next up is Regine Gilbert presenting on Accessible Data and Sound. Her presentation is much more in the style of an academic conference — which isn’t a bad thing! It’s nice to see the rigor in the process she’s describing! But it did make taking notes a little more challenging because she had lots of great information per slide.
Because this year I used Twitter’s threading / topics feature, it’s giving me 2 tweets in each embed I do here. I’m embedding every other tweet for readability. There’s a PDF at the bottom of the page in case this all collapses.
Asssumptions are things that we haven’t thought about critically.
Bias is disproportional weight in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another.
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
marginalization is the process where someone or something is pushed to the edge of a group and is treated as insignificant or peripheral #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
Transformative research is a research framework that centers the experiences of marginalized communities #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
Get familiar with these terms. lesley-Ann Noel, PhD has The Designers Critical Alphabet on Etsy. #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
Where are you right now? we’re all in the milky way galaxy, and we’re circling the sun.
The sun has 4 layers: the core, the corona, thee photosphere, and the chromosphere. #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
If you cannot see an eclipse, how can you experience it? When an eclipse occurs the sounds in nature tend to become quieter, and some nighttime animals start to make noises #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
The first sentence of the next tweet is “The next eclipse is going to be 5 minutes and 17 second long, and animals will think that it’s night.
Damn you, autocorrect.
In 2020 Regine was invited to go to a blind soldering event – teaching blind people how to solder computer boards. During that she got the opportunity to have her students work with NASA.
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
The project will advance national education goals, work with the blind and low vision community to learn, work with subject matter experts. Citizen science will happen for the 2023 eclipse and the 2024 total eclipses. #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
importantly, this is done with people with disabilities, not for them but without them.
Universal design for learning focuses on multiple means of engagement, representation, and action and expression.
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
Limited opportunities and poor users experience design with sound technologies make it not fun. People want to learn and research about the impact of the eclipse on soundscapes but they need accessible places to do that. So they need something accessible #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
They’re using content models to determine the audience, purposes, key words, browser title, friendly url, page content, images, downloads, and other things. #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
Wireframes developed by students are based on the content models. #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
AudioMoth is a low-cost full-spectrum acoustic logger based on the Gecko processor range from Silicon Labs that they’re sending to citizen scientists. They’ll record sounds during the eclipses. ARISA labs and consultants are putting together the kits. #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
data sonificatin is the presentation of data as sound using sonificatin. [I think @SciShow had a recent example in one of their videos.] #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
The interface for the sound system looks complex, but they’ve made it accessible – go over a particular area of the sound with your mouse (keyboard is coming). #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
All the icons need typography to be understood by screen readers. “Although most screen reader users use a keyboard and not a mouse, they are not restricted to a limited set of keyboard commands as other keyboard users” Leonie Watson #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
What hasn’t worked:
Surveys!What has worked:
– Interviews
– Content modeling
– participatory design of audio moth
– working with the national association of accessible media— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
We all have the opportunity to work with our communities. #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
Get involved! They need citizen scientists! https://t.co/yYKPrtDmo4 #aeaot
— Anne Gibson (@perpendicularme) October 12, 2021
Here’s a PDF of this post (which might not be accessible because I’m using print-to-PDF to generate it, my apologies) in case Twitter kicks it and all the tweets disappear. An Event Apart OT 2021 Accessible Data and Sound by Regine Gilbert – Perpendicular Angel Design