Presentation given at the University of Leeds 16 February 2012.

1. Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts 13 February 2012 Robert Huffaker Early Stage Researcher

3. Maintaining accessibility in blog posts also helps you practice to maintain accessibility in your overall PhD work. It is always best to keep these issues in mind from the beginning so that you don’t have to redo an entire word document, or reuse a template, or simply just waste time. Time is saved when revising the final document/entry/post. So please keep the following in mind while you are writing your blog posts. Introduction Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts

4. If you type in a word document, make the word document accessible: Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts Fun tips: use the styles function & remember that spaces … are your enemy.

5. Fun tip: use the WYSIWYG editor to its fullest by using the kitchen sink button on the far right. If you work from the WYSIWYG editor, make the text inside accessible Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts

6. Fun tip: Word 2003 can use more screen contrast options than 2007 If you upload a word document, make that accessible Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts

7. Fun tip: Table of contents should still be clickable after converting from Word to PDF If you upload a PDF, make that accessible Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts

8. Fun tip: Title text/alt text should be descriptive If you use links, make them accessible Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts

9. If you add a photo, add alt text Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts Fun tip: JAWS cannot pause while reading alt text

10. Fun tip: Find subtitled videos when possible If you upload a YouTube video, opt to use the accessible version Ensuring Accessibility in your WordPress Blog Posts

11. Thank you for your attention Robert Huffaker Early Stage Researcher [email_address] http://es.linkedin.com/in/robhuffaker