Technical Communication and Inclusion

Technical Communication and Inclusion Karen Mardahl #a11yldn – 21 Sept. 2010 #tcuk10 – 23 Sept. 2010

Preaching Accessibility Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:039.Moses_Comes_Down_from_Mount_Sinai.jpg

Preaching Accessibility Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:039.Moses_Comes_Down_from_Mount_Sinai.jpg P erceivable O perable U nderstandable R obust

Exclusion Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/2168375264/

So where do we start? Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfrederick/206227407/

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 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfrederick/206227407/

Transcribing Layout 1 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Transcribing Layout 2 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The Captions Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfrederick/206227407/

Uploading the Video Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Technical details of the video Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Processing the video Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Adding Captions
Note 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.

Or do we add a transcript? Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Your caption file is processed Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

And the caption file is added! Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Turn on the captions! Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Captions appear!
It’s magic. Seriously!

Grabbing the caption file for editing Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The amazing file of time codes Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Uploading the edited caption file Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The bonus… Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The interactive transcript Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The PDF Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfrederick/206227407/

Eating Your Own Dog Food Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 Report from a meeting about accessibility was… inaccessible! Ewww

Ten Steps to Accessible PDFs Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
Use a structured source document (+ alt text !)
Save/export document as tagged PDF
Add title, author, subject, and keywords
Add bookmarks
Initial view
Specify the reading language
Correct the reading order
Use PDF Optimizer
Enable Adobe Reader features
Check accessibility

PDF Accessibility Check Walk-Through Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 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 the following process, and, most important of all, use it. Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Warning: You must turn on your brain, keep it turned on throughout the following process, and, most important of all, use it. Why? Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The greatest accessibility checker of all is… Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The greatest accessibility checker of all is… your brain. Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Checking your PDF Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Preparing Options for Full Check Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Ouch Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The Accessibility Report – 1 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

The Accessibility Report – 2 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Navigating to Errors Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Fixing the PDF Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

TouchUp Reading Order Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Heading in an Image – Oops! Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Editing the Alt Text – 1 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Editing the Alt Text – 2 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Using the Order Panel – 1 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Using the Content Panel – 1 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Using the Content Panel – 2 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Using the Tags Panel – 1 Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Editing Requires Care Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Revealing Sins Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Table in the Content Panel Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Table in the Tags Panel Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

A Side Note Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

You’re not alone… Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/38504374@N02/3606527857/

There are plenty of communities for learning available for you today. That includes opportunities for awareness raising – like Pesky People – www.peskypeople.co.uk. Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

Resources - 1
Where 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.

Resources - 2
What 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/

Thank you! This conversation is unfinished. Let’s work on it through Twitter (@stcaccess) and www.stc-access.org. Me? @kmdk, karen@mardahl.dk, and http://flavors.me/kmdk Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10

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