Accessibility

It's The Law

Two laws that cover accessibility in California:

Americans with Disabilities Act (Links to an external site.) and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Links to an external site.).

Distance Education Accessibility Guidelines -California Community Colleges Distance Education Task Force (2011)

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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) - POUR Principal

• WebAIM: Constructing a POUR Website (Links to an external site.)
• W3C Introduction to WCAG 2.0 (Links to an external site.)
• W3 WCAG 2.0 POUR (Links to an external site.)

Amara.org - Amara is a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a nonprofit 501c3. We are driven by our mission to foster a media ecosystem that enables everyone to benefit from online video content. Content that can enrich lives, but is not currently available to those who cannot hear or understand the language of the video. We believe a participatory and inclusive world leads to a more understanding and caring society.

Assistive Technology

• Disabled World - Assistive Computer Devices and Software (Links to an external site.)
• Assistive Technology Products (Links to an external site.)
• American Federation for the Blind - Refreshable Braille Displays
• Screen readers - Jaws or Nvidia or ZoomText
• ChromeVox - from the Chrome Web Store
• Text-to-speech Kurzweil or TextHelp
• On a Mac, you can turn on the VoiceOver option in Preferences (Preferences--Accessibility--VoiceOver)

Industry Standards

WebAIM - Everything you want to know about Web Accessibility

Popular Resources

• WebAIM Training
• WCAG 2.0 -Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible. Following these guidelines will make content accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
• WCAG 2 Checklist
• Section 508 Checklist
• Color Contrast Checker
• Web Accessibility for Designers
• WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
  • Video Example
• Accessibility tools in Word for Windows
• Accessibility tools in Word for Mac
• Accessibility tools for Google
• Center for OnLine Learning

Color Contrast Tools

• WebAim: Color Contrast Checker (Links to an external site.)
• ACART Communications: Contrast Checker (Links to an external site.)

If you would like to know more about color, HTMLColorCodes (Links to an external site.) offers excellent, clear advice for choosing colors for your web pages.

Closed Captioning

YouTube:

• To create captioning with a script, follow these steps:

1. Record your video from the script.
2. Review your recording, and correct any errors in the script.
3. Save the script as a .txt file.
4. Upload your video to YouTube.
5. Select "edit."
6. Select Subtitles and CC from the menu.
7. Set the language of the video.
8. Select Add new subtitles or cc.
9. Select Upload a file, and then select your script file (.txt).
10. Use the text edit box to clean up the text (for instance, apostrophes or quotes may need to be corrected).
11. Select Set Timings, and wait for the captions to sync.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZ-cxfxzvk&feature=youtu.be

How to correct the auto captioning in YouTube

Captioned Video Sources

Video on Demand - Subscription based video library

TED Talks statement on Fair Use, Copyright, and Creative Commons licensing.

• The History Channel (Links to an external site.)
• Khan Academy (Links to an external site.)
• National Geographic Education (Links to an external site.)
• Discovery Education (Links to an external site.)
• PBS LearningMedia (Links to an external site.)
• Edutopia