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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
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So where do we start? Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfrederick/206227407/
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How to… <ul><li>Make videos accessible to Deaf or hard-of-hearing (HOH) people (transcripts & captioning) </li></ul><ul><li>Make accessible PDFs </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Write good ALT text </li></ul></ul><ul><ul><li>Write in plain language </li></ul></ul>
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The Transcript Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfrederick/206227407/
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The Captions Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfrederick/206227407/
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Uploading the Video Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Technical details of the video Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Processing the video Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Adding Captions <ul><li>Note the failed machine transcription. </li></ul><ul><li>PS This is where many people stop and publish. </li></ul>Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Do we add captions… <ul><li>We don’t have a file with time codes, so we can’t. </li></ul>Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Or do we add a transcript? Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Your caption file is processed Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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And the caption file is added! Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Turn on the captions! Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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The interactive transcript Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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The PDF Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasfrederick/206227407/
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Eating Your Own Dog Food Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 Report from a meeting about accessibility was… inaccessible! Ewww
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Ten Steps to Accessible PDFs Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10 <ul><li>Use a structured source document (+ alt text !) </li></ul><ul><li>Save/export document as tagged PDF </li></ul><ul><li>Add title, author, subject, and keywords </li></ul><ul><li>Add bookmarks </li></ul><ul><li>Initial view </li></ul><ul><li>Specify the reading language </li></ul><ul><li>Correct the reading order </li></ul><ul><li>Use PDF Optimizer </li></ul><ul><li>Enable Adobe Reader features </li></ul><ul><li>Check accessibility </li></ul>
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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??
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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
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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
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The greatest accessibility checker of all is… Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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The greatest accessibility checker of all is… your brain. Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Checking your PDF Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Preparing Options for Full Check Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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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
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Resources - 1 <ul><li>Where to discuss, learn, and ask questions? </li></ul><ul><li>http://webaim.org/community/ </li></ul><ul><li>LinkedIn: “IBM Accessibility” and “Society for Technical Communication, AccessAbility SIG” </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/training/online/webdesign/webdev_listserv.htm (newsletter) </li></ul><ul><li>http://www.headstar.com/eablive/ (sign up for great newsletter) </li></ul><ul><li>Where to discuss and learn ”live”? </li></ul><ul><li>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. </li></ul>Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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Resources - 2 <ul><li>What to read? </li></ul><ul><li>Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design by Shawn Lawton-Henry (also available online for free at http://www.uiaccess.com/accessucd/) </li></ul><ul><li>Letting Go of the Words by Ginny Redish (http://www.redish.net/content/books/lettinggoofthewords.html) </li></ul><ul><li>Who to follow in social media? </li></ul><ul><li>Find lots of great names from the collection at http://twitter.com/stcaccess/lists/ </li></ul>Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10
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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, karen@mardahl.dk, and http://flavors.me/kmdk Karen Mardahl - #a11yldn - #tcuk10