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Accessibility

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Overview Legal and ethical obligations

Courses “fully accessible to all learners, including those with disabilities” Courses must be accessible whether or not

students with disabilities are enrolled Hard of hearing, visually impaired, learning

disabilities, physical disabilities, color blindness Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

(World Wide Web Consortium) Accessibility Law: Section 508

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MS Word and user’s experience using JAWS

https://youtu.be/D8XFkGMF0sw

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Video Closed captioning, good for

deaf or hard of hearing second-language students reinforces spelling and pronunciation

learning helps students search for content transcript production

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Images Choosing and using accessible images

Use text descriptions, referred to often as “alternative text” or “alt text” in authoring tools

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PDF Adobe Acrobat Pro has an accessibility

checker tool (Tools > Accessibility) For untagged PDF Documents, add tags

and adjust read order Keep Acrobat Pro updated to latest

version

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MS Office Word In Microsoft Office Word, use the Accessibility

Checker tool to find issues that are easily fixed Use styles. Identify headers, lists, quotes, etc. Include a table of contents with links to section

headings Identify column headers for tables in Word (under

Table Properties > Row > Repeat as Header Row) Add alt text to embedded images (Word 2010:

right click, format image, select “Alt Text”)

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Making Websites Content management systems such as

Wordpress: choose an accessible theme Validate pages using the World Wide

Web Consortium’s (W3C) HTML and CSS validators: http://validator.w3.org/ and https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

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Checking web pages Wave Accessibility Evaluation Tool:

http://wave.webaim.org/ AChecker: http://achecker.ca If possible, recruit assistive technology

users and/or experts to test your pages for accessibility problems.

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Services at UH UH has consulting services: CDS Media

Center, http://www.media.cds.hawaii.edu http://www.media.cds.hawaii.edu/publicati

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References Rems. T. 2014. Authoring Accessible Documents.

Presentation to Center on Disability Studies, UH Manoa. Accessed January 2016.

Rems, T. 2015. Introduction to Accessibility for Websites, Multimedia and Print. Presentation to Fall 2015 OER C4ward, Kapiolani Community College.

Open Washington. 2015. OER Training Module 8: Accessibility. http://www.openwa.org/module-8/. Accessed March 31, 2016.