Q1:Are you-or educators you support- creating educational materials. Share an experience (either positive or not) with accessibility of those materials #ATchat
A1: Bailey’s Story shows the power of AT and AEM working together to provide access and empowerment, participation on an equal basis. #ATChat#AEM4Allhttps://t.co/ng8a7dWxXZ
A1: I had an experience last week w/ a district creating materials for computer based testing. There was no style sheet so some materials were accessible to AT tools / some were not #ATchat
Q1- The educators I work with are constantly making educational materials. The focus is usually on making them accessible for their particular students. The hope is to start focusing on making them accessible for all #atchat
So true. That would have almost been an easier fix for this school. Now, many materials need to be re-made in order to be accessible to TTS browser tools #ATchat
A2: Is your content Perceivable? Let the AEM Center show you how to make your educational materials more accessible by adding alternative text, closed captioning your videos, ensuring good color contrast and more! #ATChat#AEM4All#A11y#UDLhttps://t.co/gEvcWc3a1m
And can be so useful when used with NFC to provide on-demand audio. We can learn a lot from museum on how to make experiences more perceivable for all. #ATChat
Is your content Operable? Let the AEM Center show you how to make your educational materials more accessible by properly marking up headings, creating descriptive links and more! #ATChat#AEM4All#A11y#UDLhttps://t.co/x3KVTuffsK
A3: Learn how to mark up your document with headings in Google Docs, MS Word to make it easier to navigate with AT. #ATChat#AEM4Allhttps://t.co/sTYfSomBQP
Q3- Quality design at the start and then taking time to 'try' the content out in a variety of forms from time to time to make sure settings or programs still work the way you are expecting them to. #ATchat
A3: Learn how to add descriptive links in Google Docs, make them easier to navigate with AT. #ATChat#AEM4All Learn how to mark up your document with headings in Google Docs, make it easier to navigate with AT. #ATChat#AEM4Allhttps://t.co/gDdu0DyHWD
Good points on the need for accessible podcasts. How would one go about making a podcast accessible? Via transcript on the website or is there a tool/trick out there? #atchat
So happy to see the relationship between #a11y and #AT discussed tonight.. it doesn’t happen enough. I was just giving a lecture to a class about this tonight. You can’t have one without the other! #atchat
A4: Is your content Understandable? Let the AEM Center show you how to make your educational materials more accessible by using plain language and more! #ATChat#AEM4All#A11y#UDLhttps://t.co/LJIOrFVswh
A1, A2, or A3? No idea.. but be weary of auto generated captions! Set policies around this for staff/teachers/faculty to ensure compliance and cleanup. We do regular random audits to ensure compliance and revoke privelages/retrain when need be! #ATChat
Good question - there are lots of tools that create accessible content, but the authoring tool itself is not accessible. Very common, unfortunately. #ATChat
A5: Is your content Robust? Let the AEM Center show you how to create educational materials that work on both today’s and tomorrow’s educational technologies, including how to perform accessibility checks and test with AT. #ATChat#AEM4All#A11y#UDLhttps://t.co/8UU6DzafJV
We’ve really loved it.. there needs to be more work, but isn’t that always true? It’s opened up some doors. We’re training on 2.1 now, and holding that as the standard. #ATchat
A6: Sigil is great for getting started with basic ePub3 documents for accessibility. I used it for the ePubs on our website at https://t.co/G0pdZWfs24 Still learning. #ATchat
Q6: We don’t rely much on tools, as they are often fail. But, we do provide a lot of training and support! We also leverage tools like #CADET, YouTube, and Facebook auto generation w/cleanup for captions. Our most important thing is a thorough eval process! #ATChat
Checklists for various items, WCAG standards in an understandable format, and testing protocol for ourselves (for products) and any testers we hire.. its a big part of our procurement process, too! #atchat
While it only creates open captions, it is a great way to get kids started with thinking about #a11y, since it is so easy to use and fun! #ATChat ##EveryOneCanCreate
A6: Our IT director set a goal to make our district site accessible a while back after sharing @w3c resources. When others ask for revisions/style changes, he reminds them of the importance of #a11y. Continuous process. #Atchat
