{"id":2295,"date":"2024-10-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2025-01-10T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T17:02:24","slug":"october-4-2024-digital-accessibility-updates-trainings-and-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/announcements\/2024\/10\/04\/october-4-2024-digital-accessibility-updates-trainings-and-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"October 4, 2024: Digital Accessibility Updates, Trainings, and Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A monthly email with the latest updates on Digital Accessibility and additional information and training relevant to digital accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2>Resources &amp; Trainings<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>These are external resources you might find beneficial<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/guides\/resources\/\">Resources<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/articles\/procurement\/vpat\/\">Making VPATs and ACRs More Effective in Procurement<\/a><\/strong>: Organizations can make efficiency gains in many product categories by leaning on the VPAT and ACR more heavily as tools to gather and compare information about competing products and vendors.<br><strong>Source<\/strong>: WebAIM<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tetralogical.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/11\/introduction-to-xr-accessibility\/\"><strong>Introduction to XR Accessibility<\/strong><\/a>: Extended Reality (XR) provides immersive experiences through detailed visual, audio, and multi-media content. When using these different types of content, we need to consider how we can communicate the same information to people with disabilities in order to make XR accessible to everyone.<br><strong>Source<\/strong>: Tetra Logical<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/5XGwY5PSsb8?si=8ZBNNpyLSqqYZpzH\">Introduction to XR Accessibility (video)<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tetralogical.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/19\/xr-accessibility-for-people-with-seeing-disabilities\/\">XR Accessibility: for people with seeing disabilities<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tetralogical.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/26\/xr-accessibility-for-people-with-thinking-disabilities\/\">XR Accessibility: for people with thinking disabilities<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/tetralogical.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/01\/xr-accessibility-for-people-with-hearing-disabilities\/\">XR Accessibility: for people with hearing disabilities<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/events\/\">Trainings<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Trainings from around the web that may be of interest. These trainings are free unless noted. See the event\u2019s information page about registration, changes, or cancelation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/event\/wordpress-accessibility-day-2024\/\"><strong>WordPress Accessibility Day 2024<\/strong><\/a><br><strong>Details<\/strong>: WordPress Accessibility Day is a 24-hour global event dedicated to promoting and learning website accessibility best practices for WordPress websites. <br><strong>Time<\/strong>: October 9 at 7:45 am&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;October 10 at 8:00 am<br><strong>Source<\/strong>: WordPress Accessibility Day<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/event\/wordpress-accessibility-meetup-pdf-accessibility-on-the-web-tricks-and-traps-ricky-onsman\/\"><strong>PDF Accessibility on the Web<\/strong><\/a><br><strong>Details<\/strong>: PDF documents on the web can be made accessible if the proper techniques are applied \u2013 but even then, there are some things to watch out for. TPGi\u2019s Principal Technical Writer, Ricky Onsman, highlights some problems and solutions.<br><strong>Time<\/strong>: October 21 at 5:00 pm &#8211; 6:00 pm<br><strong>Source<\/strong>: Equalize Digital<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The October 4, 2024 email with the latest updates on Digital Accessibility and additional information and training relevant to digital accessibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41717,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_category":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41717"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2545,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_category?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsu.edu\/digital-accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}