Issue: Crowded data in spreadsheet cells is hard to read.
Who’s affected: People with cognitive, language and learning disabilities, some people with low vision.
Standard: Related to Guideline 11.4.8: Visual Presentation
What to do: Here are the basics:
The WebAIM color contrast checker includes an eyedropper tool that lets you sample colors from a graphic or image before you upload it to the web. Use it to make your graphics accessible before you finalize and share them.
Color contrast ratio comes from comparing the relative luminence of the foreground and background colors. The Continue Reading »
Manage the details in InDesign and you’ll only have a few steps to tackle in Acrobat Pro. It’ll help to be familiar with some accessible document basics.
Issue: If you don’t use meaningful language in your header and set your top row (and your left column if applicable) as a header, a screen reader will read your table from left to right, line by line and the listener will lose all context for relationships between headers and data.
Who’s affected: Screen reader Continue Reading »
You’ll hear a lot about making things accessible to screen readers, and it might make you wonder if we care about people with disabilities who aren’t blind. It’s true that screen readers, which parse through a web page’s underlying code and speak the content out loud, are critical to helping people with visual impairments use Continue Reading »
Checking that a page can be navigated without a mouse is one of the easiest accessibility tests you can do. It ensures that people who need to – or prefer to – navigate the web with their keyboard can get to the functionalities they need.
We like the WebAIM color contrast checker because it includes an eyedropper tool that lets you sample colors from a graphic or image before you upload it to the web. Use it to make your graphics accessible before you finalize and share them.
Color contrast ratio comes from comparing the relative luminence of the foreground Continue Reading »
PDFs created from scanned or inaccessible documents need to be “tagged” in order to make them accessible.
Screen reader users, keyboard users
Guideline 1.3.1 Info and Relationships, Guideline 1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence
First, make sure you have a copy of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC on your computer. The Continue Reading »
Electronic documents (including those that people can download from your site or Canvas) are subject to the same accessibility requirements as websites.
Screen reader users, people with low vision, people with cognitive disabilities
Guideline 1.3.1 Info and Relationships
In documents you’ll want to pay attention to: