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Elizabeth Pyatt, ejp10@psu.edu Accessibility: Working the Training Challenge
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Why it’s Important Serve a diverse audience Blind, low vision, color blind Deaf Motion Impaired Learning & Cognitive Disabilities Mobile device users! Google search robots (only reads text) And Increase usabiltity Improve search engine rankings AND satisfy NFB by 2014
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Which Tools? Basic Tools MS Office, Blogs, ANGEL, PDF… AND Wikispaces, GoogleDocs, Adobe Connect… Audio & Video So many systems…so many captioning choices Web Pages Code chunks and WCAG 2.0 info Javascript/Flash Ack! (need code here too)
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Audience Needs Staff/Admin/Average Instructor What do I fix first!?! Principles…NOT WCAG “What is an ALT tag?” Quickstarts How-to Minimal jargon Webmasters/Programmers Code chunks Reference on WCAG guidelines May become local gurus
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8 Blockers Fix these first Image ALT tags Concrete Link text Avoid “Click Here, Learn More….) Headings (H1-H6) Page Titles (& Frame Titles) Captioned Data Tables with Headers Properly Labeled Forms Captions & Transcripts http://accessibility.psu.edu/whattofix
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Multiple Outlets ITS Training Live & Webinar External Vendors ITS Events TLT Symposium Web Conference Online http://accessibility.psu.edu http://accessibility.psu.edu Coordinating with services ANGEL KB http://kb.its.psu.edu/cms/article/556 http://kb.its.psu.edu/cms/article/556
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Web Liaisons 1-2 per Campus/College/Unit Responsible for auditing Website Providing updates Access to Compliance Sheriff Meet monthly Do you know yours? See list in Yammer group “Web Liaisons” http://accessibility.psu.edu/webliaisons http://accessibility.psu.edu/webliaisons
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Now for the Website Screenshot of accessibility.psu.eduaccessibility.psu.edu
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Let’s Tour Website http://accessibility.psu.edu http://accessibility.psu.edu Just in Time learning Many tech topics/services Major Blockers (“What to Fix) With solutions Event calendar A link to a tutorial?
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Questions !?!? accessibilityweb@psu.edu accessibilityweb@psu.edu
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