{"id":124,"date":"2009-07-10T20:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T03:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/?p=124"},"modified":"2009-07-10T20:02:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T03:02:06","slug":"tool-kit-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/2009\/07\/10\/tool-kit-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"tool kit: Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I have a very close friend with a visual impairment. She has had to self advocate through out her education for accessibility to educational resources. She uses adaptive software on her computer for web browsing. However, the software is expensive and is not always compatible with other software. As a result, she is still at a disadvantage when is comes to accessing some web resources. This tool kit activity has helped inform me that there are indeed guidelines when designing web resources that designers should be aware of. If these guidelines are always followed as policy, it could decrease the accessibility issues people with disabilities already face.<\/h2>\n<h2>The following tips are from the<a id=\"tips\" name=\"tips\" href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/WAI\/quicktips\/Overview.php\" target=\"_blank\"> web accessibility initiative <\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a id=\"tips\" name=\"tips\">10 Quick Tips for accessibility<br \/>\n<\/a><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Images &amp; animations:<\/strong> Use the     <strong>alt<\/strong> attribute to describe the function of each   visual.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Image maps.<\/strong> Use the client-side <strong>map<\/strong> and text     for hotspots.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Multimedia.<\/strong> Provide captioning and transcripts of audio, and descriptions     of video.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hypertext links.<\/strong> Use text that makes sense when     read out of context. For example, avoid &#8220;click here.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Page organization.<\/strong> Use headings, lists, and consistent structure. Use <strong>CSS<\/strong> for layout and style where   possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Graphs &amp; charts.<\/strong> Summarize or use the <strong>longdesc<\/strong> attribute.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scripts, applets, &amp; plug-ins.<\/strong> Provide alternative     content in case active features are inaccessible or unsupported.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frames.<\/strong> Use the <strong>noframes<\/strong> element and     meaningful titles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tables.<\/strong> Make line-by-line reading sensible.     Summarize.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Check your work.<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/\">Validate<\/a>. Use tools,     checklist, and guidelines at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/WCAG\/\">http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/WCAG<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very close friend with a visual impairment. She has had to self advocate through out her education for accessibility to educational resources. She uses adaptive software on her computer for web browsing. However, the software is expensive and is not always compatible with other software. As a result, she is still at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":586,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4115],"tags":[4334],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tool-kit-reflections","tag-tool-kit-reflection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aburdett565\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}