Improving Accessibility in Computing Courses: Open office hours
Drop-in (online via Zoom) office hours for computing instructors to talk through, co-design, or evaluate efforts to make computing course resources more accessible. Potential topics include broad overviews on digital accessibility, discuss auditing and remediation strategies for specific types of content (e.g. PDFs, websites, videos, math, diagrams), or co-develop a plan for implementing accessibility (for example, making a checklist, planning TA or staff trainings, or evaluating automated tools and their shortcomings).
Join the Zoom session during these times:
Thu, Sept 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Oct 6 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Oct 16 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Nov 3 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Nov 20 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Mon, Dec 1 at 9 - 11 a.m.
Thu, Dec 18 at 10 a.m. - Noon
Consultants: Kevin Lin and Matt Wang, Kevin Lin and Matt Wang are both teaching professors at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. They have prior experience in and are happy to consult about web…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/98992837185. Accessibility Contact: doit@uw.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Information Sessions. Special Events. Academics. Target Audience: Computing instructors.
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Unchartered Deception Realms for Blind and Low Vision Users in Modern Cyberspace
UW CSE PRISM Seminar Series invites CREATE and DUB members to the next talk in their virtual seminar series:
The central theme of this talk is the tacit shift from conventional, interactive deceptiveness to increasingly generative/immersive deceptiveness that particularly targets blind and low vision users dependent on assistive technology. A couple of cases in point will be presented to illustrate the need for rapid reinterpretation of defenses, in both practical and ontological terms, against adversarial capabilities that include covert observation and AI-enabled fabrications.
Zoom Registration required
The first case is the use of smart glasses such as the Meta RayBan or Oakley to covertly observe — or shoulder surf — blind and low vision people in various public settings, a population that traditionally relied on accessibility-as-a-defense (e.g. screen curtains) against a bystander threat. The second case builds on the capabilities used in the first one as it demonstrates how an adversary could use…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: Prism-seminar-series@cs.washington.edu. Event Types: Diversity Equity Inclusion. Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, December 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
UW Web Accessibility and Usability Meetup
These monthly meetups, formerly known as “Explore with Hadi” provide an opportunity for UW web developers and designers to discuss accessibility and usability issues in a relaxed, casual setting, and provide friendly feedback on each others’ web projects. We encourage you to bring your accessibility questions or just join us to see what others are working on. Meetings are hosted by Hadi Rangin, a web accessibility specialist with UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. Hadi has a Master’s degree in computer science and is a screen reader user himself, so these meetings are great opportunities to experience how your website might be experienced by someone using assistive technology.
Meetups are typically held on the 4th Tuesday of each month, 11:00am – Noon.
Zoom meeting information:
https://washington.zoom.us/my/hadirangin
Meeting ID: 206 221 1532.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/my/hadirangin. Accessibility Contact: Hadi Rangin. Event Types: Meetings.
Tuesday, December 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM.
Zoom.
Course Accessibility Lunch & Learn: Ask Us! Accessibility Resources at the UW Libraries
Looking for accessible resources wondering how to make more accessible scans of printer materials or hoping to explore alternatives to traditional textbooks? The library is the best place to start! Members of the UW Libraries Accessibility Working Group will join this month’s Lunch & Learn to share various ways the Libraries can support faculty on their accessibility journey.
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email Mary-Colleen Jenkins (mcj6@uw.edu) for any accessibility-related requests.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Tuesday, January 6, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom, registration required.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 1: Structured Headings
Today we're focusing on an important Accessibility Skill: Built-in Headings. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, January 7, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Distinguished Lecture Series: David Baker - Forthcoming
Abstract is forthcoming.
Bio
David Baker is a Nobel laureate, professor of biochemistry, HHMI investigator, and director of the Institute for Protein Design at the University of Washington. His lab develops software for protein design and uses it to create molecules that address challenges in medicine, technology, and sustainability. Recent work includes the development of machine learning methods for generating functional proteins.
David is also an adjunct professor of genome sciences, bioengineering, chemical engineering, computer science, and physics at the University of Washington. He has published more than 650 scientific papers, been awarded over 100 patents, and co-founded 21 biotechnology companies. More than 100 of his trainees have gone on to independent faculty positions.
He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for computational protein design." He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and was included on TIME's list of…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Collaborative Accessibility Problem-Solving (CAPS) Meetup
Join colleagues for this informal networking series with other faculty support partners across the UW system for collaborative problem-solving. We’ll talk about challenges we face and how we can support faculty in accessibility efforts in the coming academic year.
Audience: Faculty support staff across the UW community, instructional designers, communications staff, learning technology staff, administrative staff, librarians
Schedule: 4th Tuesday of each month, 3:00 – 4:00pm.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/94285858851. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Not Specified.
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
Digital Accessibility Liaisons' Meeting
Join us as we welcome new and existing Digital Accessibility Liaisons members to our first Community of Practice meeting of the 2025-2026 academic year! This meeting will introduce the purpose of the Digital Accessibility Liaisons, provide an orientation to key resources, and share updates on the University of Washington’s Digital Accessibility efforts across our three campuses and UW Medicine.
Agenda Highlights 10:00 to 10:10 — Opening and Welcome , 10:10 to 10:40 — Learn about UW’s new Digital Accessibility Administrative Policy Statement (APS) , 10:40 to 10:45 — Break , 10:45 to 11:10 — Community Partners: Working together to build digital accessibility School of Public Health , UW-IT Accessibility Initiative , , 11:10 to 11:20 — Updates , 11:20 to 11:30 — What’s next & closing message To become a Digital Accessibility Liaison, please visit the Digital Accessibility Liaisons webpage.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/96052250328. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Digital Accessibility Liaisons.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
Winter Accessibility POP Session 2: Accessibility Checkers
Today we're focusing on Accessibility Checkers. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Harnessing accessibility checker tools
This information session will demonstrate basic skills associated with using accessibility checkers to assess whether course materials comply with the updated Americans with Disability Act (ADA) digital accessibility standards.
The University is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation in its services, programs, activities, education, and employment for individuals with disabilities. This event will include live-captioning services. If you need additional disability accommodations, please reach out to the UW Disability Services Office (DSO). When contacting DSO at dso@uw.edu, please share the event details listed in the event registration form.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/99118879215. Accessibility Contact: teaching@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, January 22, 2026, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM.
Zoom.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Meredith Ringel Morris - HCI for AGI
The past few years have seen rapid advances in frontier AI models, demonstrating increasing performance and generality. As progress continues toward artificial general intelligence (AGI), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) scholarship and practice has a critical role to play in ensuring that AI technology is useful to and usable by people to accomplish tasks they value. HCI insights can help us maximize the benefit of AI technologies to individuals, communities, and society while allowing us to understand how to mitigate harms. In this talk, I will describe a research vision for the field of HCI in the AGI era, examining how researchers can facilitate progress toward and adoption of advanced AI via interaction techniques, interface designs, physical form factors, design methods, evaluation methods, benchmarking approaches, and data collection techniques.
Bio
Meredith Ringel Morris is Director for Human-AI Interaction Research at Google DeepMind. Prior to joining DeepMind, she was Director of the People +…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium. Accessibility Contact: dso@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, January 29, 2026, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
Gates Center (CSE2), G20 | Amazon Auditorium.
For more info visit www.cs.washington.edu. Course Accessibility Lunch & Learn: Seven Practical Moves Toward Disability Justice in the Classroom
It’s a pleasure to welcome Dr. Amy J. Ko as our special guest this month! Amy brings both a disability justice lens and a focus on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to inform an accessible teaching practice. Though the word “computing” appears in the title of Amy’s presentation, her 7 heuristics for accessible teaching are appliable and doable in any course, regardless of subject. You’ll leave this presentation inspired and with new ideas for making learning more accessible and inclusive for all students.
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email Mary-Colleen Jenkins (mcj6@uw.edu) for any accessibility-related requests.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Information Sessions.
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Zoom, registration required.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 3: Canvas Accessibility Tips
Today we're focusing on Canvas Accessibility Tips. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 4: Simple Alternative text
Today we're focusing on an important Accessibility Skill: Simple Alternative Text. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email ats-events@uw.edu for any accessibility-related requests.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
Zoom.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 5: Accessible Slide Design
Today we're focusing on an important Accessibility Skill: Accessible Slide Design. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email ats-events@uw.edu for any accessibility-related requests.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Winter Accessibility POP Session 6: Accessible Presentation Delivery
Today we're focusing on an important Accessibility Skill: Accessible Presentation Delivery. Our working meetings will have the same structure each time: 15 minutes to learn; 30 minutes to practice; 15 to reflect. You'll leave with 30 minutes of work accomplished!
This will be a virtual event taking place on Zoom and captions will be enabled. This event is intended to be inclusive and accessible. A two-week timeframe is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs. Please email ats-events@uw.edu for any accessibility-related requests.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ats-events@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us.