Elizabeth Pyatt, ejp10@psu.edu

Why it’s Important
 Serve a diverse audience
 Blind, low vision, color blind
 Deaf
 Motion Impaired
 Learning & Cognitive Disabilities
 Mobile device users!
 Google search robots (only reads text)
 And
 Increase usabiltity
 Improve search engine rankings
 AND satisfy NFB by 2014

Which Tools?
 Basic Tools
 MS Office, Blogs, ANGEL, PDF…
 AND Wikispaces, GoogleDocs, Adobe
Connect…
 Audio & Video
 So many systems…so many captioning choices
 Web Pages
 Code chunks and WCAG 2.0 info
 Javascript/Flash
 Ack! (need code here too)

Audience Needs
 Staff/Admin/Average Instructor
 What do I fix first!?!
 Principles…NOT WCAG
 “What is an ALT tag?”
 Quickstarts
 How-to
 Minimal jargon
 Webmasters/Programmers
 Code chunks
 Reference on WCAG guidelines
 May become local gurus

8 Blockers
 Fix these first
 Image ALT tags
 Concrete Link text
 Avoid “Click Here , Learn More ….)
 Headings (H1-H6)
 Page Titles (& Frame Titles)
 Captioned Data Tables with Headers
 Properly Labeled Forms
 Captions & Transcripts
 http://accessibility.psu.edu/whattofix

Multiple Outlets
 ITS Training
 Live & Webinar
 External Vendors
 ITS Events
 TLT Symposium
 Web Conference
 Online
 http://accessibility.psu.edu
 Coordinating with services
 ANGEL KB http://kb.its.psu.edu/cms/article/556

Web Liaisons
 1-2 per Campus/College/Unit
 Responsible for auditing Website
 Providing updates
 Access to Compliance Sheriff
 Meet monthly
 Do you know yours?
 See list in Yammer group “Web Liaisons”
 http://accessibility.psu.edu/webliaisons

Now for the Website
 Screenshot of accessibility.psu.edu

Let’s Tour Website
 http://accessibility.psu.edu
 Just in Time learning
 Many tech topics/services
 Major Blockers (“What to Fix)
 With solutions
 Event calendar
 A link to a tutorial?

Questions !?!?
 accessibilityweb@psu.edu