short presentation for my AL891 course

1. WEB ACCESSIBILITY AND USABILITY

2. WHAT ARE THEY?
 Accessibility refers to a person with a disability’s
ability to see the content/participate in the course
 Usability is the general ability for someone to move
through your course with relative ease, not being
confused, etc.

3. WHY ARE THEY IMPORTANT?
 Accessibility
 Legal
 Ethical
 Usability
 Learning
 Cognitive overload
 Motivation

4. WHAT DO I NEED TO DO TO MAKE MY SITE
ACCESSIBLE?

5. TEXT FORMATTING
 Text has strong contrast against page
background (i.e. dark text on light
background).
 Page headings use heading tags(h1, h2,
h3) instead of bolding regular text.
 Hyperlinks clearly identified and labeled (i.e.
links describe where they are going instead
of saying “click here”).

6. SOLVING THE “CLICK HERE” PROBLEM…
 Best example: Please review theMSU Professional
Writing website.

Fair example: Click here to view the MSU
Professional Writing website.

Worst example: Click here to view the MSU
Professional Writing website.

7. IMAGES
 All images contain an Alternate "Alt" tag.
 Graphs, charts, vital visual images are clearly
described in text body or with the use of Long
Description Tag.

8. VIDEO/FLASH
 Videos and embedded Flash objects are clearly
described in page text.
 Video contains closed captions (CC) or a script of
the narration.
 If either of the above is not possible, other equal but
accessible alternative listed (page in book, other
resources)

9. DOCUMENTS
 PDF Files are used when original format is not an
option (i.e. use original files where applicable).
 All PDF files of text are either scanned or converted
form original source so text is able to be copied (i.e.
text is OCR scanned).
 Files contain a high contrast of text.
 MS Word Files use the proper heading tags rather
than regular text that has been bolded.

10. WHERE ARE HEADING TAGS IN WORD???

11. WHERE CAN I GET INFO AT MSU
 http://webaccess.msu.edu/
 RCPD – Resources Center for Persons with
Disabilities (http://rcpd.msu.edu/)
 CAL Academic Technology (Scott)
 vuDAT – Check with your producer if you were
assigned one