everyday accessibility confabedu 2014

EVERYDAY

ACCESSIBILITY

Sarah

Maxell Crosby

@choiceofpies

Matt

Richardson

ACCESSIBILITY?

What is

Accessibility is

essential to the Web.

Accessibility is

a human right.

Accessibility is

required.

Accessibility is

our responsibility.

Who is accessibility for?

Screen Reader Demosource: http://vimeo.com/cameronmoll

Accessibility is for all of us.

Breaking

down

barriers

W3C’s

Web Content Accessibility

Guidelines

AAAAA

A? AA? AAA?

Color

NAVIGATION

IMAGES

Stupid flag

ALT TEXT

CAPTION

Alt text: Students sitting at tables on Collis Porch.

Caption: The Collis Center is a hub of campus social activity.

Caption: The Collis Café is a popular campus dining option.

Video

(insert FinAid text example here)

CAPTIONS?

When should we use

VIDEO CAPTIONING SERVICES

~$2.50 a minute for captioning + transcribing

~$1 a minute for captioning + transcribing

~

AUDIO

TRANSCRIPTION SERVICES

$1-2.50 a minute depending on speed

~$1 a minute

MEASURING READABILITY

Text

TABLES

Source: http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML_tables

Source: http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML_tables

Accessible

content

Accessible

content strategy

LANDSCAPE SURVEY

CONTENT INVENTORY

PERSONAS

Testing

QUALITY ASSURANCE

QA TOOLS

Color Contrast Analyser

WAVE Accessibility Evaluation

Site Improve

Getting site editors

on board

No color codingAcceptable color contrast levelsClear menu labelsClear and accurate page titlesDescriptive linksAlt text and captions (not the same!)Avoid text in imagesClear, non-visual directions in how-to videosVideo captioningTranscripts for audio filesWriting for the web (clear, simple, concise)Clear and correctly formatted headersProperly formatted tables (for tabular data)

TOOLS AND SERVICES

Color Contrast Analyzers• WebAIM (online)

• Paciello Group (download)

Full-Site Testing• WAVE Accessibility Evaluation

• Site Improve

Readability Analyzers• Writing Sample Analyzer

• http://read-able.com

Video Captioning• Automatic Sync

• Zen Captions

Audio Captioning• Casting Words

• Rev Transcription

Screen Readers• JAWS (free 30 min. trial)

• NVDA (free)

FURTHER READING

• WCAG guidelines

• Access by Design

• WebAIM articles

• Training the CMS

• Gov.UK Style Guide

• PlainLanguage.gov Tips & Tools

• Why Higher Ed Needs Plain Language

Blogs

Karl Groves

Paciello Group

Digital Echidna