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Tips on Web Accessibility Training
This page lists some tips, from Web accessibility trainers, which might be
useful in planning a training session. Inclusion of perspectives from individual
trainers or organizations does not represent endorsement by W3C or WAI.
Tips
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Helle Bjarnø, Videncenter for Synshandicap (Visual Impairment Information
Centre)
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Sometimes I start by giving people the Quick Tips card, because I want to
emphasize that it's very simple to make accessible Web sites.
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Henk Snetselaar, Bartimeus Educational Institute for the Blind and Partially
Sighted
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At our last presentation, we started by asking five questions about
accessibility, and asked participants whether they thought these were myths
or facts.
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Libby Cohen, University of Southern Maine
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I start by demonstrating a page with JAWS (a screen reader). I usually choose
a page that works, not a page with problems.
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David Clark:
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I like to open a page in Lynx (a text browser), or to run it through Lynx-me
(a text-browser emulator); it shows the tangible result of what someone using
a screen-reader might encounter on a Web page.
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Sheela Sethuraman, Center for Applied Special Technology
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I find it's really helpful to take one of the participant's Web sites, run
it through an accessibility checker, and then discuss some of the problems
that come up.
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Julie Howell, Royal National Institute for the Blind:
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I always start with a scenario -- a real one, something really hard-hitting,
that shows unnecessary discrimination -- for example, how is it that a blind
person living in one town can find any info he needs from the Web (how to
take his kids to the park, etc.) and someone living close by in another town
can't find any of this information because the second town's Web site is
inaccessible?
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Chuck Letourneau, Starling Access Services
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I always look at the local framework within which Web accessibility is being
addressed. So, for instance, I'd start by telling them what the policy
requirements are that apply to Web sites in their area.
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Julie Howell, Royal National Institute for the Blind
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I like to make the presentation topical by refering to something going on
in the news at the time. For instance, when the news in the UK was covering
the "dot-com bubble burst," after Boo.com failed, we turned this into a usability
story, emphasizing "consult your users."
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Helle Bjarnø, Videncenter for Synshandicap (Visual Impairment Information
Centre)
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(? check ?) I emphasize that there is a global trend of rising expectations
of accessibility of electronic information.
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Geoff Freed, WGBH National Center for Accessible Media
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It's good to show people a couple of different multimedia clips in different
formats, for instance something in QuickTime and something in SMIL. I discuss
the differences between the formats, and the similarities achieved by captioning
and description. Then I show them how to do it -- I actually open up a captioning
tool, such as MAGpie, and show them how to build the captions, and then finally
show them the result. But it's always easier to show them the goal first,
and then teach them how to achieve it.
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[more to be added]
Last updated October 12, 2000 by Judy Brewer
(jbrewer@w3.org). This WAI Resource is
produced by the Education and Outreach Working Group.
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