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Resources & Trainings
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Resources
- How To Make A Strong Case For Accessibility: Gaining buy-in for accessibility can be challenging due to common myths and misunderstandings. For many, accessibility remains a big mystery. Here are some practical techniques for winning stakeholder support.
Source: Smashing Magazine - From: How People with Disabilities Use the Web
Source: W3CC: Web Accessibility Initiative- Stories of Web Users: These user stories represent the experiences of some people with disabilities. They do not address all disabilities or all impacts faced by people with disabilities. These and other disabilities may be present from birth or may develop as a results of an accident, illness, or aging.
- Diverse Abilities and Barriers: Diverse Abilities and Barriers explores the wide diversity of abilities. It highlights some accessibility barriers that people experience because of inaccessible digital technology. The examples given are not a complete list of all disabilities or barriers.
- Tools and Techniques: An introduction to some of the tools and techniques that people with disabilities use to interact with digital technology — browser settings, text-to-speech, speech recognition, and many more. The examples given are not a complete list of all the ways that people interact with digital technology.
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.
- Pope Tech Accessible Documents Webinar
Details: George Joeckel, Online Training Program Manager at WebAIM, shares some fundamental principles and processes for accessible documents that WebAIM has taught to over 8,000 trainees since 2018. The training covers headings in Word, slide titles in PowerPoint, sheet names in Excel, alt text, and exporting to PDF.
Time: Jul 23, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.
Source: WebAIM