Disability / Chronic Illness

There's still time to register for this insightful webinar - while the presenter teaches courses in Computer Science and Informatics, her thoughts have wide applicability to most disciplines and you're welcome to join and share this invitation with others on your campus and in your networks:

Date: Monday, July 14, 2025

Speaker: Amy J. Ko, PhD

Abstract: Amy will discuss how, employing a disability justice lens and embracing its intersections with other systems of oppression around race, gender, and class, she strives to apply a Universal Design in Learning (UDL) framework to her teaching. She'll share her philosophy on UDL and share 7 heuristics she has developed for accessible teaching in computing. 

Our speaker: Amy J. Ko studies equitable, joyous, liberatory learning about computing and information, in schools and beyond, drawing from human-computer interaction, computing education, software engineering, programming languages, learning sciences, behavioral sciences, and sociology. She is a Professor and Associate Dean for Academics at the University of Washington Information School, with a courtesy appointment in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. Among many other activities related to promoting greater accessibility in computing, Amy has co-editing and authored books like Teaching Accessible Computing (https://bookish.press/tac) to help grow communities and served as a long-time co-PI of NSF AccessComputing

Accommodations: ASL and CART provided; Zoom captions enabled. For other accommodation requests please contact Eric at ericwt@uw.edu