accessibility

Accessibility Oct 12 Presentation on Adobe Connect

You can watch the Oct 12 presentation on accessibility live on Adobe Connect at  https://breeze.psu.edu/accessibility/

It will also be recorded.

 

Accessibility in Online Education, Oct 12

FYI - There will be a session on accessibility in online education. It will feature David Cunningham  demoing how real users process documents on a screen reader and Elizabeth discussing NEW examples of implementing accessibility online.

Captions in YouTube

YouTube does support caption files (specifically the SubViewer/.sub and SubRip/.srt). You can find information about searching for captioned videos and reading captions at

http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about

More information about the specific caption format is at

http://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=100077

P.S. Pat just confirmed that Parity can create the correct caption format for YouTube.

 

 

Two Color Blindness Filters

Last week in my blog I wrote a about a Photoshop CS4 color blindness filter which lets you simulate how a color blind user might see an image.

April 20 Online Issues Forum: Session on Accessibility

Event: Online Issues Forum - Accessibility in Online Education
Date: Monday, April 20, 2009
Time: 1 to 2:30 pm
Location: Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library, University Park

Guest Speakers:
William Welsh, Director, Office for Disability Services
Christian Vinten-Johansen, Information Technology Manager, Information Technology Services
Elizabeth Pyatt, Instructional Designer, Information Technology Services
Susan Hayya, Coordinator of Library Services for Persons with Disabilities

Screen Reader Usage Survey Results from WebAIM

FYI - WebAim just publicized results of a survey of 1121 screen reader users
http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey/

Some interesting results.

Free EASI Accessibility Seminars: HTML Forms and CSS

The free EASI accessibility seminars in January are:

1) Creating Accessible Forms for the Web, Tuesday January 13 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter: Hadi Rangin from the University of Illinois

2) Cascading Style Sheets: What they are and How they Affect Accessibility A
public Webinar Tuesday Jan. 20 at 2 PM Eastern
Presenter: Terrill Thompson from DO-IT at the University of Washingt

Read more and register at:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm

Caption Style Guide

A lot of us have heard about the need to caption online videos, but may not have considered the whay they should presented

The following guide, Keys to Captioning, is a style guide to what the standards for captions are
http://www.dcmp.org/captioningkey/text.html

It include topics such as placement, how many lines (2 lines max in most cases), switching voices, background music and other important topics.

FYI - Thanks to Wendy Mahan for pointing this out to me.

Free Seminar on PDF Accessibility from EASI

EASI is presenting two free seminars this week

1 Making Accessible Forms in PDF presented by Karen McCall
Tuesday Nov. 18 at 2 PM Eastern standard

2 Mass Captioning by Autosynch
Thursday Nov 20 at 2 PM Eastern standard

Read about both and get login information from the EASI Webinar page:
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
 

Kurzweil Presentation Recording on Technology Change and Accessibilities

Earlier this week, Ray Kurzweil, the developer of Kurzweil screen reading software for students with many reading disabilities. Although he demos a new camera which takes pictures and reads the text aloud, the majority of his talk is a discussion of technology trends and how he predicted some changes based on the rate of exponential technology change.

It truly is a unique point of view.

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