1. Elizabeth Pyatt, ejp10@psu.edu Blockers: What do I REALLY Need to Fix?

2. Outline  Blockers  Simple Fixes  Where to learn more

3. Major Blockers  Images (w/o ALT text)  ALT text reads description of image  No Page Titles  Where am I?  No Headings Subheadings  Can I can this page quickly?  Poor link text  Where is “here”? Read more where?

4. More Blockers  No Table Headers/Captions  Caption: title of the table  Header: tops of rows, left col  Listing types of data  Videos without Captions  Audio without transcripts  Poorly labeled form fields  If you don’t create forms, DON’T worry

5. Image (w/o ALT Tags)  Why it’s a blocker  If it’s not text, it’s not read by the screenreader  Also  Image Maps  Animations  Charts  Diagrams  ALT text too long?  Write it out as text

6. ALT Tag/Text/Attribute  Text which replaces image if it can’t be processed  ALT Text= “TWT Certificate Program”  Can appear if image fails to load

7. How To  ANGEL  “Alternative Text” field in upload  Word/PowerPoint  Right click image and select “format picture”  Fill in “Alternative Text” tab.  Blogs  Title is ALT text  More  http://accessibility.psu.edu/images http://accessibility.psu.edu/images

8. Page Titles  Documents/Pages need titles  Screenreader user knows location  PowerPoint  Unique title on all slides  Slide titles announced by screen readers  ANGEL/Blogs/Wikispaces  Title field IS document title.  This is very easy!  This can be an issue for Web developers  No one wants to be in Google as “Untitled Page”

9. Headings and Subheadings  Why?  Screen readers read list of headings out  ANGEL HTML Editor  Heading 1…Heading 6 menu option  Word  Heading…Heading 6 styles  Use Styles tools to adjust formatting  PowerPoint  Slide titles  Bulleted list

10. Poor Link Text  Avoid  For more information about accessibility, click here  Try This  You can get more information from http://accessibility.psu.edu http://accessibility.psu.edu  This strategy works across all tools!

11. Table Captions/Headers

12. Accessifying Tables  http://accessibility.psu.edu/ http://accessibility.psu.edu/  http://accessibility.psu.edu/tables http://accessibility.psu.edu/tables  Choose technology option  Website includes  Event Calendar  What To Fix  Fixes for  Common Tools (covers many teaching tools)  Multimedia (Video/Animation)  Web Developer Reference