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Back from lunch, & ready for the first 20-min session of the afternoon: "From 0 to 6 in One Month: An #Accessibility n00b Relearns Web Development," led by William Bork.
I'll try and share takeaways from this but might be notetaking instead for my own sake! #MSUa11y #FAFMSU
I'll try and share takeaways from this but might be notetaking instead for my own sake! #MSUa11y #FAFMSU
Bork is sharing his journey of moving from
(knowing) Nothing
to
(knowing) Something
to
(knowing) More.
It's a catchy thought-pattern.
(knowing) Nothing
to
(knowing) Something
to
(knowing) More.
It's a catchy thought-pattern.
Things Bork has learned in his task of completing accessibility audits:
- Heading structures
- Descriptive hyperlinks
- List styles (bullet points, etc)
He's sharing info from: webaccess.msu.edu
- Heading structures
- Descriptive hyperlinks
- List styles (bullet points, etc)
He's sharing info from: webaccess.msu.edu
Next up at #MSUa11 -- "The Story of Accessible Art at the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab" led y Sarah Geist and Soohyun Cho.
Excited to combine learning about #DH and #a11y into one awesome session.
Excited to combine learning about #DH and #a11y into one awesome session.
Panelists begin by noting that #accessible art provides opportunity to reach multiple senses and angles of engagement. It can involve the body and embodiment in exciting, interesting ways that transform art into a whole new experience! #a11y
Panelists describe a project where students wrote poetry, and then other students in art course were tasked with creating a touchable, tangible, tactile, 3D version of the poem so that you could "touch" the story. Poems were also transcribed in Braille. AMAZING. #MSUa11y
Next up at #MSUa11y: "PDF Accessibility Panel" hosted by Grace Morris, Madeleine Ferguson, & Grey Pierce.
I'm particularly hype for this bc of my work at @WCMSU: text documents are kinda our thing. Engagement for this session is supposed to be pretty high; I'll tweet when I can!
I'm particularly hype for this bc of my work at @WCMSU: text documents are kinda our thing. Engagement for this session is supposed to be pretty high; I'll tweet when I can!
@WCMSU We're supposed to be asking questions.
1Q: What PDF conversion tools would panelists recommend?
A: Apparently, saving a .doc as a PDF isn't great if the .doc itself wasn't made accessibly -- using headers, etc. So that's why PDFs sometimes don't work well w/ screen readers.
1Q: What PDF conversion tools would panelists recommend?
A: Apparently, saving a .doc as a PDF isn't great if the .doc itself wasn't made accessibly -- using headers, etc. So that's why PDFs sometimes don't work well w/ screen readers.
@WCMSU Q1, A2: Scanned images aren't accessible, FYI. The reading device can only make sense of what it already sees on the page. So... it ain't accessible. Can't read formatting, etc.
@ShellELittle has taken the stage to deliver a keynote/featured address: "It Takes a Village." She plans to talk about accessible product creation: making something & distributing it. What's involved? #MSUa11y #ALC19 #FAFMSU
@ShellELittle Little frames the idea of product creation and #a11y by describing user groups as a consideration in design.
It's a cool way for me to think about how different rhetorical phraseologies evoke similar themes -- types of abilities represent different user groups, etc.
It's a cool way for me to think about how different rhetorical phraseologies evoke similar themes -- types of abilities represent different user groups, etc.
@ShellELittle Little is talking about neurodivergence and reminds us all: "'Normal' is just a setting on a dryer!'"
Truth! Being neurotypical doesn't make you "normal."
Normal doesn't mean a thing.
Truth! Being neurotypical doesn't make you "normal."
Normal doesn't mean a thing.
