“Access Granted: Accessibility and Your Web Content” — BlendPRESENTS

The Presentation Slides

Slides uploaded from a previous iteration of this workshop, given at Now What? Workshops in April 2018.

Articles and Reference

• “Mobile Fact Sheet” — Pew Research Center
• “Internet/Broadband Fact Sheet” — Pew Research Center
• “Facts on U.S. Immigrants, 2015” — Pew Research Center
• Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
• “Lawyers Awarded $100K After Historic Verdict For Blind Internet Users; Winn-Dixie Appealing — Forbes
• Letter from Senators Rounds, Grassley, Tillis, Crapo, Cornyn, and Enrst to Department of Justice
• Department of Justice’s response to the Senators’ letter
• “Integrating Accessibility: Planning Content for Everyone” —Eileen Webb
• “1133: Up Goer Five” — Explain XKCD
• “Web Accessibility: A Primer” — Blend Interactive

Books

• A Web for Everyone: Designing Accessible User Experiences — Sarah Horton & Whitney Quesenbery
• Accessibility For Everyone — Laura Kalbag
• Inclusive Design Patterns — Heydon Pickering
• Nicely Said: Writing for the Web with Style and Purpose — Nicole Fenton & Kate Kiefer Lee
• Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words — Randall Monroe

Tools and Resources

• WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference
• WAVE Web Accessibility Tool
• Alternative Text Decision Tree
• Simple Writer
• ChromeVox — Screen reader for Chrome
• Adding Captions in YouTube
• PlainLanguage.gov
• Automatic Readability Checker

The Transcripts

This workshop has been transcribed as a series of blog posts on Eating Elephant.

• Part One — What Is the Accessible Editor?
• Part Two — The Structured Things: Alternative Text
• Part Three — The Structured Things: Transcripts, Captions, and the Title Field
• Part Four — Inside the WYSIWYG: Plain Language
• Part Five — Inside the WYSIWYG: Headings and Descriptive Links
• Part Six — Some Final Thoughts

Image Credits

All images my own, unless mentioned otherwise. All photos used under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 aside from gifs, article screenshots and cat photos, which are used under Fair Use guidelines.

• “Bike Lane” — Open Grid Scheduler / Grid Engine