Central question: What do we need to understand from Modules 01–03 to make and defend good accessibility decisions?
Quiz 1 will draw from the work we have done across the first three modules. Your team will create one part of the class study guide. Each team has been assigned three topics, one from each module. Your job is to identify what classmates actually need to understand, explain it clearly, and support it with authoritative sources. The three team submissions will be archived together as part of the study material for Quiz 1.
All three team assignments are visible below so you can see the full challenge structure.
Cyan Triangle
Explain what WCAG is, how it is organized, how conformance works, and what WCAG can and cannot establish.
Explain what happens when users enlarge text or zoom, what reflow requires, and how to distinguish accessibility requirements from design preferences.
Explain the different roles of captions, transcripts, and descriptions of meaningful visual information.
Amber Circle
Explain what UConn requires and how institutional policy connects to WCAG and federal requirements.
Explain how color, shape, position, boundaries, and other visual cues can communicate meaning, and how that meaning should remain perceivable.
Explain how image purpose and context determine whether an image needs alt text, a decorative treatment, or another alternative.
Violet Square
Explain the roles of ADA Title II, Section 504, and Section 508, and how legal requirements relate to technical standards.
Explain color dependence, text contrast, non-text contrast, and how those claims are tested.
Explain how charts, maps, diagrams, and infographics can require more than a short text alternative.
Create one concise Quiz 1 Study Guide section covering your three assigned topics, approximately 2–3 pages as a PDF.
Submit one concise PDF through HuskyCT/Blackboard.
For each assigned topic, identify approximately 4–6 important ideas in plain language. Synthesize the material rather than copying definitions.
For each topic, provide a short decision process or set of questions for evaluating a real situation.
For each topic, include one concise example that requires some judgment.
For each topic, identify one plausible misunderstanding and correct it.
Provide direct links to the W3C, federal, UConn, or other primary sources supporting important claims.
End the document with three ideas from your entire assigned set that you most want a classmate to remember going into Quiz 1. Keep each to one or two sentences.
Identify any generative AI tools used and briefly explain how they contributed.
Start with the source that fits your team's investigation.
Return to the federal, UConn, WCAG, and W3C resources established in Module 01.
Use WCAG guidance and the testing resources from Module 02 where they add evidence.
Use the existing W3C image and audio/video resources from Module 03.
AI output is not evidence.
AI may help your team get oriented, interpret difficult material, organize ideas, or test possible answers. Important claims must still be verified against authoritative sources or direct testing.
The challenge is worth 10 points.
Did the team identify the important ideas and distinctions within its assigned Module 01–03 topics?
Are important claims supported by appropriate authoritative sources and prior course evidence?
Did the team distinguish concepts that are easy to oversimplify and provide useful ways to reason through real situations?
Is the study guide concise, understandable, accurate, and genuinely useful for classmates preparing for Quiz 1?
Due: EOD after Session 06
The official submission deadline and assignment submission are in HuskyCT/Blackboard.