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Making Accessibility Accessible Terrill Thompson Technology Accessibility Specialist University of Washington [email protected] @terrillthompson http://uw.edu/accessibility

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Making Accessibility Accessible

Terrill ThompsonTechnology Accessibility Specialist

University of [email protected]

@terrillthompsonhttp://uw.edu/accessibility

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#a11y

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Photo source: FEMA/Bill Koplitz

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The Typical Computer User

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People are diverseand the technologies they use are diverse

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Ability on a continuum

See

Hear

Walk

Read print

Write with pen or pencil

Communicate verbally

Tune out distraction

etc.

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#gaad

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GlobalAccessibilityAwarenessDay.org

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#nomouse

nomouse.org

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Canvas Accessibility

• The People:– Accessibility Project Manager, Dana Danger– Dedicated software engineer, Aaron Cannon– Software developers with accessibility training – QA engineers with accessibility experience– Executives who support accessibility initiatives

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ATHEN

• Access Technology Higher Education Network

• http://athenpro.org• Founded at CSUN in 2002 • A long history of supporting collaborations

with vendors• http://collaborate.athenpro.org

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Accessibility Collaboration• Started with:

– a conversation with our Canvas reps – a post to the ATHEN list seeking others – a report of accessibility issues that we

shared with Instructure• First teleconference was February 2014• Now has 83 participants• 396 accessibility bugs fixed in 2014

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Accessibility within Canvas

• It is possible within Canvas to have an accessible course.

• It is possible within Canvas to have an inaccessible course.

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Course Accessibility in Five Simple Steps

1. Use headings

2. Add alternate text to images

3. Caption videos

4. Upload accessible course materials

5. Ask questions about accessibility before selecting other features or tools

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Introduction to Physics Course Syllabus Textbook Our sole text for this course will be Introduction to

Physics, Second Edition, authored by the instructor. Course Objectives to offer students exposure to

basic principles of Physics to provide students with rich, thought-provoking discussions during

lecture sessions to provide students with experiential learning opportunities during laboratory

sessions. Class Schedule Week Topic Reading Assignment 1 Course Introduction Chapter 1 2 Inertia,

equilibrium, kinematics Chapters 2-3 3 Newton’s laws, vectors, momentum, energy Chapters 4-7 4

Matter, elasticity, scaling Chapters 8-10 5 Wave kinematics, sound, electricity, magnetism, induction

Chapter 11-15 6 Light, reflection and refraction, emission Chapters 15-18 7 Review, final exam

Grades Grades will be assigned on a ten point scale (90 to 100 is an A, 80 to 89 is a B, etc.).

Homework, exams, and projects will be weighted as follows: Homework Exams Projects 1 2 Final 1 2

Final 15% 15% 15% 20% 10% 10% 15% Ce programme es également disponible en français sur

demande.

Example: Text with no structure

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Example: Syllabus with structure

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Step 1. Use Headings

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Headings apply to all document types

Shown: Microsoft Word

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Step 2. Add alternate text to images.

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Alt text = equivalent communication

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons

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Use the shortcuts to answer

Reminder:

Ctrl 1 = a

Ctrl 2 = b

Ctrl 3 = c

Ctrl 4 = d

Ctrl 5 = e

What is the best alt-text for this image?

a. Mount Rainier

b. Photo of Mount Rainier

c. Aerial photo of Mount Rainier from the Northwest on a clear blue summer day

d. Photo of Mount Rainier from the Northwest, showing the receding Russell Glacier

e. Ptarmigan Ridge, a Grade III climb on mixed terrain with a 5.8 pitch on rock

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Step 3. Add captions to videos

http://ableplayer.github.io/ableplayer

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And adding them to videos is easy

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Caption files are plain text files

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And there are free tools to help you create them

Shown: Amara.org

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Step 4. Upload Accessible Course Content

• Accessible Microsoft Word documents• Accessible PowerPoint files • Accessible PDFs

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Adobe PDF

• First released in 1993• PDF 1.4 (2001) introduced "tagged PDF"• Supported in Adobe Acrobat 5.0• Three general types of PDF:

– Image– Image with embedded fonts– Tagged (optimized for accessibility)

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Is My PDF Tagged? Ctrl (or Command) + D

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To Create an Accessible PDF

• Use an authoring tool that supports: – Creating documents with headings &

subheadings– Adding alt text to images– Exporting to tagged PDF

• Use these accessibility features anytime you create a document

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Authoring tools that are known to support Tagged PDF

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With Adobe Acrobat Pro, you can make an accessible

PDF from an inaccessible one

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Adobe Acrobat Full Screen

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Step 5. Ask questions about accessibility before selecting other features or tools.

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Discussions

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Conferencing

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Collaboration

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Accessible Technology Resources

• UW Accessible Technologyhttp://uw.edu/accessibility

• AccessComputinghttp://uw.edu/accesscomputing

• The DO-IT Centerhttp://uw.edu/doit