Submissions for Cards Against Digital Humanities are coming in! While I don’t think we’ll have enough suggestions to play this weekend, I’m hopeful we’ll collect enough to have a deck ready for our friends at THATCamp Games.

Here’s a preview of some of the ideas submitted to date:

Please continue to share your suggestions, and, if you’re not sure what this is all about, you’ll find an explanation in this previous post.

Inspired by Cards Against Humanity and Emily Lloyd’s Cards Against Librarianship, Cards Against Digital Humanities, a free, printable card game, is happening.

Please submit your suggestions for cards via this Google form. If we receive enough submissions before Friday, I’ll print a deck for us to play during THATCamp Alabama; otherwise, we’ll continue to collect suggestions throughout our camp in hopes of having a deck to share with THATCamp Games prior to their upcoming camp.

Note: Cards Against Humanity contains humor that some find objectionable (here’s one author’s take). While Cards Against Digital Humanities is inspired by CAH and its gameplay, the creators of Cards Against Digital Humanities will reject suggestions that are not respectful to all potential players, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, age, religion, etc..

Last year, I presented an Alabama Digital Humanities Center brown bag on accessibility and its impact on digital resources and practices. Here’s a description:

How can we broaden our understanding of the ways that people use digital resources by considering the experiences of users with disabilities? In this brown bag, we will discuss contemporary DH conversation about “access,” strategies for widening this access in our own projects, and issues, such as heavy reliance on visualization, that exclude some users from working with particular digital tools and resources.

If there’s interest, I’m happy to offer a similar session at THATCamp Alabama. In a hybrid Teach-Talk session, I’d talk about some the ways that people with disabilities use digital resources, some of the challenges they face, and possible solutions for those challenges. I’d then share some of the conversations about accessibility that are happening in the digital humanities community and prompt participants to engage in some conversations of our own.