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Writing Equivalent Text Descriptions (EqTDs) Posterette

This short 2-page document provides the essential "bare-bones" of what needs to be included in an equivalent text description (EqTD) and where the EqTD should be placed in a document. Whenever you create a document, whether it is electronic or paper, any non-text based element (e.g., picture, graph, "eye-candy") is not accessible to many individuals, so EqTDs should be provided.

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Writing EqTD's Posterette  (PDF File)

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Posted by: ShirleyEvans on Mon Apr 02, 2012 at 7:49 a.m.

I think this is a really usefull resource. I like the way it differentiates between accessibility and usability info and what is basic and what is essential.

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Posted by: freibe28 on Tue Nov 23, 2021 at 9:15 a.m.

I have been using this for my class presentations and it has been very helpful to make sure that there are text descriptions of images.

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Posted by: EMURRAY12 on Sun Apr 21, 2024 at 5:02 p.m.

This document does a great job of explaining why and how the use of Equivalent text descriptions or EQTDs is important for accessibility. If you have never used EQTDs before this document can help guide you on where they should go as well as give you a description of what a brief, essential, and detailed EQTDs are. This is a very useful resource!!

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