Build an Accessibility Checklist for a Voice Health Assistant
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build an Accessibility Checklist for a Voice Health Assistant. Intermediate challenge in research. Conducting rigorous research on real questions, earn a blo...
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Make voice-assistant accessibility a repeatable, release-gating check rather than a one-off audit.
This is not a research exercise. It is the work a researcher does to produce findings that withstand scrutiny. That distinction matters to every hiring manager who has seen candidates summarize papers and none who have produced original findings under expert review.
When you finish, you will have something most graduates do not: a real-world deliverable, verified by Ewance, that you can show to a hiring manager and say "I did this. Here is the proof."
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Apply WCAG 2.2 and Section 508 to voice-only interfaces
- Design a release-gating evaluation protocol that non-researchers can run
- Identify repair-strategy failures in conversational AI
- Prioritize accessibility findings by user impact, not technical effort
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems
Master · Applied Ai
Strong alignment
This challenge maps to Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems at the Master level. It sharpens the same practical skills your coursework expects — but in a real industry context with actual constraints and deliverables.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Accessibility
Ensure digital products are usable by people of all abilities, meeting WCAG standards.
- Voice Interaction Design
Apply voice interaction design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Evaluation
Apply evaluation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Human Ai Interaction
Apply human ai interaction to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- User Centred Design
Apply user centred design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Inclusive Design
Apply inclusive design to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
AI Product Designer
Owning the accessibility surface of a voice AI product, including a release-gating protocol, is precisely the kind of work AI product designers ship at health and accessibility-sensitive companies.
This challenge sharpens
- accessibility
- voice-interaction-design
- inclusive-design
AI Safety Researcher
Designing reproducible evaluations that catch failure modes before release mirrors the day-to-day of safety researchers focused on real-world harms.
This challenge sharpens
- evaluation
- human-ai-interaction
- inclusive-design
AI Product Manager
Turning audit findings into a prioritized, business-impact-tied recommendation backlog is core AI PM work.
This challenge sharpens
- evaluation
- user-centred-design
- accessibility