Accessibility Working the Training Challenge Elizabeth Pyatt ejp

Accessibility: Working the Training Challenge Elizabeth Pyatt, ejp 10@psu. edu

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

Which Tools? ¡Basic Tools MS Office, Blogs, ANGEL, PDF… ¡AND Wikispaces, Google. Docs, 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)

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

8 Blockers ¡Fix these first Image ALT tags Concrete Link text ¡Avoid “Click Here, Learn More…. ) Headings (H 1 -H 6) Page Titles (& Frame Titles) Captioned Data Tables with Headers Properly Labeled Forms Captions & Transcripts http: //accessibility. psu. edu/whattofix

Multiple Outlets ¡ITS Training Live & Webinar External Vendors ¡ITS Events TLT Symposium Web Conference ¡Online http: //accessibility. psu. edu Coordinating with services ¡ANGEL KB http: //kb. its. psu. edu/cms/article/556

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

Now for the Website ¡Screenshot of accessibility. psu. edu

Let’s Tour Website ¡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?

Questions !? !? ¡accessibilityweb@psu. edu