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Include captions when using audio or video clips and materials.

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The Accessible Virtual Campus

Posters & Exhibits

Several shadowed people standing in front of a poster presentation.
Posters & Exhibits are significant educational resources.  As we develop them, or teach our students to present their work in this format, it is essential that the access issues of people with disabilities are considered.
Media & Materials
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EqTD AUDIT

Use this AUDIT to evaluate the accessibility and usability of non-text graphics in a variety of media.

 

 

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Excel Document) EqTD AUDIT

(Word Document) EqTD Manual

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In-line EqTD AUDIT

Here is the AUDIT to use to evaluate the accessibility of in-line text characters that need to be treated as graphic elements for accessibility e.g. subscript,  ampersand, foreign letters.

 

 

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Excel Document) In-line EqTD AUDIT

(Word Document) In-line EqTD AUDIT Manual (Version 1.3)

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Equivalent Text Description (EqTD) Tutorial for Graphics

This short tutorial provides examples and a structure for writing equivalent text descriptions for graphic elements. 

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Word Document) Tutorial for EqTDs

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Writing EqTDs Posterette

The essential "bare-bones" of what needs to be in an equivalent text description and where the EqTD is placed in the document. Whenever you create a document, electronic or paper, any non-text element (picture, graph, "eye-candy") is not accessible to many individuals.

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Word Document) Writing EqTD's Posterette

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Accessible Data Tables

Detailed instructions. Also, other website links on the topic are provided.

Hudson, R - "Web Usability"

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Clear Print Guidelines

Nice summary from this UK site 'supporting blind and partially sighted people' for preparing accessible print documents.

Royal National Institute of Blind People, UK

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Color

Everything you would want to know about color and accessibility. While this page was prepared for web accessibility, these issues also are relevant for print, poster, Power Point, etc. materials.

University of Minnesota Duluth

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Effective Color Contrast

Nifty web page with 3 general guidelines for making effective color choices that work for everyone when designing.

Lighthouse International

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Web Design References: Accessibility

Very comprehensive listing of resources for about 40 topics related to web accessibility. In addition to comprehensive information of web design accessibility, this page has links to more than 50 (!) links about writing alternative text. That should be enough to get you started.

University of Minnesota Duluth, Information Technology Systems & Services

Media & Materials

It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability