Accessible IT Workshops

Dates: May 25, June 22 & July 13, 2016 (9 a.m. - noon)

Introduction to Accessibility
- Need for Accessible Content
- Types of Disabilities
- General Accessibility Concepts and Guidelines
Creating Accessible Word Documents
- Font
- Styles
- View the Navigation Pane
- Use Headings to Create a Table of Contents
- Blank Space
- Graphics
- Tables
- Hyperlinks
Checking Document Accessibility
- Microsoft Office Accessibility Checker
- Handling Legacy Documents
Creating Accessible Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
- Convert a Document to a PDF File
- Run “Make Accessible Wizard”
- Touch Up Reading Order Tool
- Checking Document Accessibility
Creating Accessible Outlook Email Messages
- Font
- Styles
- Creating clear, concise, complete and correct email messages

Dates: June 8 & July 20, 2016 (9 a.m. - noon)

SU Information and Communications Technology Accessibility Policy
- Background
- Highlights of legal actions against other colleges
Interpreting the WCAG 2.0 AA Guidelines
- What checkpoints can be evaluated automated, which manually
Steps for manually checking accessibility
- How people with different types of disabilities access content on the web
Automated accessibility checker
- WAVE
- HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff: reviewing scan results
Brief introduction to screen readers
Design considerations
- Navigation & headings
- Tab focus & tab order
- skip to main content (visible vs invisible)
- link text
- contrast
- use of color to convey meaning
- forms & error identification
- other: page title, language, images containing text
- video & audio
Captioning vendors and tools

Dates: May 24 & July 19, 2016 (9 a.m. - noon)

This workshop is designed for anyone who manages, creates or maintains video content and is offered in two parts.

Part 1: Captioning basics and third party services

Part 2. DIY captioning (optional)