A biweekly email with the latest updates on Digital Accessibility and additional information and training relevant to digital accessibility.
Resources
These are external resources you might find beneficial
Guides
- A Web Designer’s Accessibility Advocacy Toolkit: A collection of strategies and selling points to help you encourage and advocate for accessibility in your place of work, including useful scripts you can use as starting points.
Source: Smashing Magazine - Learn Accessibility: An evergreen accessibility course and reference to level up your web development.
Source: web.dev - Inclusive Design Principles: Inclusive Design Principles are about putting people first. These principles are intended to give anyone involved in the design and development of websites and applications a broad approach to inclusive design.
Source: Inclusive Design Principles - Beginner’s guide to lists and how to make them accessible: HTML lists are just lists that have the correct HTML behind them. When the HTML is correct, screen readers can navigate and read the list more easily. When writing content, lists group together related pieces of information.
Source: PopeTech - How to create audio descriptions for accessible YouTube videos: An audio description is narration that describes what’s happening on-screen. They’re important because users with visual and cognitive disabilities need the audio description to understand the visual content.
Source: PopeTech
Trainings
Trainings from around the web that may be of interest. These trainings are free unless noted. See the event’s information page about registration, changes, or cancelation.
- Basics of PowerPoint Accessibility Remediation (Digital Accessibility Webinar)
Details: We will cover the basics of structuring PowerPoint documents for accessibility, including how to effectively add alternate text to images, especially those with multiple parts like flowcharts, and best practices for making your PowerPoint files accessible.
Time: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 10:00 A.M to 11:00 A.M
Source: Access Ingenuity - Selling Accessibility
Details: Struggling to convince people at your company that accessibility is important? Looking to construct an effective business case for accessibility? During this talk, Karl Groves will provide a comprehensive overview of how to Sell Accessibility.
Time: Thursday, MArch 28, 2024 11:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.
Source: 3PlayMedia - Intro to Mobile Accessibility Testing Tools
Details: An introduction to some of the mobile device settings, assistive technologies, and other tools that you can add to your accessibility-testing toolbox.
Time: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 9:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.
Source: TPGI - Accessible Technology: How A Screen-reader Works with STEM content and More
Details: In this workshop, you will experience the user’s perspective through both shared user stories and a hands-on screen-reader demo, and learn how students interact with technology to assist their learning.
Time: Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:00 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.
Source: NWHeat