Describe the three technology practices that ensure the accessibility of television for persons who may have either full or reduced vision.
Demonstrate mastery of two techniques that provide partially sighted persons with a more inclusive television viewing experience.
Describe a sub-set of the W3C WCAG 2.0 guidelines and how they apply to a non-web environment.
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On-Air Graphics Best Practices
1. ACC021:
On-Air Graphics
Best Practices
Robert Pearson
Accessibility Officer, AMI
Robert.Pearson@ami.ca
@a11ymedia
January 31st
, 2015 9:20amHandouts are available at: www.atia.org/orlandohandouts
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2. Learning Objectives
• Describe the three technology practices that ensure the
accessibility of television for persons who may have either full or
reduced vision.
• Demonstrate mastery of two techniques that provide partially
sighted persons with a more inclusive television viewing
experience.
• Describe a sub-set of the W3C WCAG 2.0 guidelines and how
they apply to a non-web environment.
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3. On-Air Graphics Best Practices
• Guidelines of best practices for the presentation of on-air
graphics and text on television.
• These guidelines are designed to enable people who are legally
blind or low vision to maintain engagement and understanding
of relevant graphic and text content presented on screen.
• These best practices are not meant to limit creativity or
aesthetic variety of on-air graphics, but to provide a model for
inclusive design choices.
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4. Table of Contents
• Size
• Contrast
• Duration
• Font
• Obscuration and Transitions
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5. Advisory Techniques
• Graphics and text over a patterned background or moving
footage
• Perspective Changes
• Stroke/Border
• Drop Shadows
• Moving Text
• Alignment
• Font Styles for Lengthy Text
• High Luminance or Saturated Red Flashes
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6. Questions
• What are the television viewing preferences of a blind and
partially sighted audience?
• How can we increase the effectiveness of the delivery of
described video (through the presence of accessible graphics)?
• How can accessibility standards developed for the web be
applied to other mediums?
• How does color contrast, font usage, spacing and other
elements affect the visual message delivered to an audience
with varying vision abilities?
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7. More Questions
• How can the delivery of accessible graphic content be of benefit
to the widest possible audience?
• What metrics and key performance indicators are proposed (can
be utilized) to ascertain whether the planned accessibility
measure meets its objectives?
• How does new technology in TV manufacturing assist with
making TV production more accessible? What challenges does
it produce? (with a focus on the “new technology” being
specifically of a purpose to support graphics)
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8. Best Practices
• On-Air Graphics Best Practices
• (Attached PDF)
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9. AMI Inside Example
• http://www.ami.ca/AMI-tv/Pages/AMI-Inside.aspx
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10. Points of Discussion
• Serif fonts?
• Death of Design?
• Captioning
• Description
• Signing
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11. Thank you for attending this session
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