Creating Accessible Documents TO HELP SET UP: 1)Sign into computer 2)Navigate to the USB 3)Drag “Lib Session” Folder to TEMP D 4)Open “Lib Session” Folder from Temp D and start “Library Creating Accessible Documents” PowerPoint Show 5)Give USB to another person!

Guiding Standards Information and Communications – ams/accessibility/tools/making_information _accessible.aspx ams/accessibility/tools/making_information _accessible.aspx W3C – CNIB – Clear Print Accessibility GuidelinesClear Print Accessibility Guidelines

What?- Disability There are five main types of disability: 1.Vision 2.Hearing 3.Mobility 4.Cognitive or Language 5.Other Medical (e.g. Seizure) Within each type there is a range of different disabilities Some disabilities are permanent, others temporary, some age-induced.

Disability Awareness Vision – Turn off the monitor! – How a person who is blind uses the computer – Refreshable Braille – Low vision

Disability Awareness Mobility – Not able to use a mouse – Keyboard – Navigating Websites: Library – how to activate the tabs to search books, versus articles, etc. Library Vs BlackboardBlackboard

Disability Awareness Hearing – What does a person with a hearing disability hear? Speech simulationsimulation Cochlear implants: simulationsimulation – Is any information shared through audio?

Disability Awareness Learning Disability – Read this Read this – Look at this websitewebsite – How much information – Layout

How? First Rule If information could be inaccessible to someone, always convey that information in a second format. – i.e. A picture is NOT worth a thousand words to everyone!

Think about… If you have audio voiceover on a Web page for people who are blind or have LD  add text for persons with hearing loss If you use Video  they should be closed captioned

Photosensitive Epilepsy Flash rate of less than 2 flashes per second Warn readers of flashing and blinking elements Where might flashing elements occur? – PowerPoint -flickering or blinking animations, or video clips. – attachments - video clips. – Web Pages -animated text or video clips. – Microsoft Word documents - animated text.

Text is… Accessible to everyone!

But consider… 1.A crowded, busy screen versus a simple, less crowded one. 2. Dense paragraphs versus lots of white space. 3.Dense paragraphs versus bulleted lists.

How? Make keyboard friendly Guiding principals for websites at: – WCAG20/keyboard-operation.html WCAG20/keyboard-operation.html HTML provides a much more accessible way to design tables; HTML tags identify: – the table header – table data

How? Text should be: – High contrast colour (black, blue on white) – Point Size of – Leading (the space between lines of text ) should be at least 25 to 30 per cent of the point size.

How? Text should consider: – Font family and style – Heaviness (bold not italics) – Uncrowded – Margins and columns (less peripheral vision and tracking) – Paper; non glare, matt

Fonts Use San Serif fonts (e.g. Arial) – What’s the difference? use at least 12 points.

How? Screen readers go from left to right so consider how tables are laid out AttributeCatMonkeySnake Furyes no Legs420 AnimalFurLegs CatFur4 legs MonkeyFur2 legs SnakeNo Fur0 legs

Alternative text, should be added to all images Should contain information sufficient enough to explain the picture

Contrast The best contrast is black on white Be sensitive to colours of “buttons”

PFD.. Viewing this: Inaccessible PDF Inaccessible PDF Versus this: Accessible PDF Accessible PDF Guides: Creating Accessible PDFCreating Accessible PDF

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