technical communication and inclusion
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A mini-tutorial made at Web Accessibility Unconference London 21 Sept. 2010 and Technical Communication UK 23 Sept. 2010.TRANSCRIPT
Technical Communicationand Inclusion
Karen Mardahl#a11yldn – 21 Sept. 2010#tcuk10 – 23 Sept. 2010
Preaching Accessibility
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Preaching Accessibility
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PerceivableOperable
Understandable
Robust
Exclusion
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So where do we start?
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How to…
• Make videos accessible to Deaf or hard-of-hearing (HOH) people (transcripts & captioning)
• Make accessible PDFs– Write good ALT text– Write in plain language
The Transcript
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Transcribing Layout 1
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Transcribing Layout 2
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The Captions
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Uploading the Video
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Technical details of the video
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Processing the video
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Adding CaptionsNote the failed machine transcription.
PS This is where many people stop and publish.
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Do we add captions…We don’t have a file with time codes, so we can’t.
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Or do we add a transcript?
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Your caption file is processed
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And the caption file is added!
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Turn on the captions!
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Captions appear!It’s magic. Seriously!
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Grabbing the caption file for editing
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The amazing file of time codes
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Uploading the edited caption file
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The bonus…
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The interactive transcript
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The PDF
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EatingYour OwnDog Food
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Report from a meeting about accessibility was… inaccessible!
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Ten Steps toAccessiblePDFs
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1. Use a structured source document (+ alt text!)
2. Save/export document as tagged PDF
3. Add title, author, subject, and keywords
4. Add bookmarks5. Initial view6. Specify the reading
language7. Correct the reading order8. Use PDF Optimizer9. Enable Adobe Reader
features10. Check accessibility
PDF Accessibility Check Walk-Through
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With the accessibility checker in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.
Gotcha: Business who scan all incoming docs – these become inaccessible images. Hmm.
Action: Find solution. OCR??
Warning: You must turn on your brain,keep it turned on throughout thefollowing process, and, most importantof all, use it.
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Warning: You must turn on your brain,keep it turned on throughout thefollowing process, and, most importantof all, use it.
Why?
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The greatest accessibility checker of allis…
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The greatest accessibility checker of allis…
your brain.
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Checking your PDF
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Preparing Options for Full Check
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Ouch
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The Accessibility Report – 1
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The Accessibility Report – 2
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Navigating to Errors
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Fixing the PDF
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TouchUp Reading Order
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Heading in an Image – Oops!
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Editing the Alt Text – 1
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Editing the Alt Text – 2
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Using the Order Panel – 1
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Using the Content Panel – 1
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Using the Content Panel – 2
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Using the Tags Panel – 1
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Using the Tags Panel – 2
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Using the Tags Panel – 3
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Editing Requires Care
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Revealing Sins
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Table in the Content Panel
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Table in the Tags Panel
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A Side Note
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You’re not alone…
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There are plenty of communities forlearning available for you today.That includes opportunities forawareness raising – like Pesky People –www.peskypeople.co.uk.
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Resources - 1Where to discuss, learn, and ask questions?
http://webaim.org/community/
LinkedIn: “IBM Accessibility” and “Society for Technical Communication, AccessAbility SIG”
http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webdev_listserv.htm (newsletter)
http://www.headstar.com/eablive/ (sign up for great newsletter)
Where to discuss and learn ”live”?
Monitor http://lanyrd.com/topics/accessibility/, http://keycontent.org/tiki-calendar.php, and the Twitter account @a11yevents for information about conferences, barcamps, and other face-to-face events.
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Resources - 2What to read?
Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design by Shawn Lawton-Henry (also available online for free at http://www.uiaccess.com/accessucd/)
Letting Go of the Words by Ginny Redish (http://www.redish.net/content/books/lettinggoofthewords.html)
Who to follow in social media?
Find lots of great names from the collection at http://twitter.com/stcaccess/lists/
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Thank you!This conversation is unfinished.Let’s work on it through Twitter(@stcaccess) and www.stc-access.org.
Me?@kmdk, [email protected], andhttp://flavors.me/kmdk
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