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Additional Web Accessibility Resources
Web Accessibility is a broad topic and the goal of creating accessible content can look different depending on the context. For more information or additional web accessibility training, we recommend these resources.
RESOURCE LIST
- SERC's Accessibility documentation for QA
- WebAIM resources
- WebAIM Quick Reference: short-form guidance for testing web accessibility
- WebAIM Techniques: Headings
- WebAIM article on colors and contrast
- WebAIM's Link Text and Appearance
- WebAIM's Typefaces and Fonts guidance
- WebAIM's Alternative Text documentation
- W3C resources
- University of Washington: Creating Accessible Videos
- University of Washington: Captioning Your Own Video for Free
- Guidance for using headings in Microsoft Word
- Using Headings and Reading Order in Adobe Acrobat: Accessibility for Online Course Content
TOOLS FOR WEB ACCESSIBILITY
- WebAIM color contrast checking tool - web tool for checking contrast using hex codes of foreground and background colors
- Colorzilla - plugin for Chrome/Firefox for extracting hex codes of colors on webpages
Feedback on Accessibility 101 Module
Sean Fox
Feb, 2022
I'm going to go through this in more detail later but some quick thoughts:
1. We should make sure each of the little assessment blocks gives feedback as to why particular answers are wrong or right.
2. There are several points where we could provide guidance about how to use the tools/practices that will be useful in the future. e.g. WAVE plug-in can be used to look at the heading hierarchy (so you don't actually have to copy them out to a separate page) and to check color contrast. We could give more explicit guidance on how to enter alt text in Serckit.
3. The 'Accessibility topics/considerations' heading seems unnecessary. You could eliminate it and bump up the level of headings beneath it.
4. For document accessibility a big piece of new behavior is learning to use the built-in structural elements (e.g. headings) rather than just doctoring font size/weight. That intersects with the document heading stuff you've already got on the page. So we'll want to think about whether the document accessibility stuff is all separate (and therefore perhaps redundant) or actually just mixed in.
1. We should make sure each of the little assessment blocks gives feedback as to why particular answers are wrong or right.
2. There are several points where we could provide guidance about how to use the tools/practices that will be useful in the future. e.g. WAVE plug-in can be used to look at the heading hierarchy (so you don't actually have to copy them out to a separate page) and to check color contrast. We could give more explicit guidance on how to enter alt text in Serckit.
3. The 'Accessibility topics/considerations' heading seems unnecessary. You could eliminate it and bump up the level of headings beneath it.
4. For document accessibility a big piece of new behavior is learning to use the built-in structural elements (e.g. headings) rather than just doctoring font size/weight. That intersects with the document heading stuff you've already got on the page. So we'll want to think about whether the document accessibility stuff is all separate (and therefore perhaps redundant) or actually just mixed in.
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Maureen Kahn
Feb, 2022
1. Agreed, I can make some explanations for those.
3. This one I definitely meant to edit already- I will do that.
4. I agree that this is sprinkled throughout- the same principles apply in documents/presentations/files as do in websites. However I do think we need a section that explicits directs people to try out these features and the checkers in the files, so I'm not opposed to keeping a section separate that is about applying the knowledge in the context of documents/presentations.
3. This one I definitely meant to edit already- I will do that.
4. I agree that this is sprinkled throughout- the same principles apply in documents/presentations/files as do in websites. However I do think we need a section that explicits directs people to try out these features and the checkers in the files, so I'm not opposed to keeping a section separate that is about applying the knowledge in the context of documents/presentations.
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Ashley Carlson
Feb, 2022
I'm not sure if a student activity handout (per Carol's note) or a report would be more broadly applicable to the office's use of Word. I don't think many on the eval team handle student activity handouts.
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Monica Bruckner
Jan, 2023
I know for the most part, we don't open links in new windows. But I wonder about enabling that for some of the exercises (e.g. looking at the biosphere text color contrast; looking at the alt text for the astronaut photo)(?)
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