Build an Accessibility Checklist for a Voice Health Assistant
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Audit audio samples and a dialog state machine to build a voice AI accessibility checklist, then earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
The healthtech (~80 staff) serves U.S. community clinics that disproportionately treat older and non-native-English-speaking patients; accessibility gaps directly translate into uneven triage quality.
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.
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