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Getting Started Resource
Jon Gunderson edited this page Sep 6, 2017
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- Communicate organization values accessibility
- What is accessibility
- Information access for people with any level of abilities, including people with disabilities
- Support assistive technologies
- Support operating system built-in accessibility features
- Communicate that editor will help you achieve organizational goals for accessibility
- Communicate that editor is different than other editors and what the differences are
- Set the context
- First time user of the editor should read this material
- Unobtrusive for other sessions
- Orientation based on the Objectives (2 minutes maximum to read)
- More information links (at bottom of page)
- Use name of organization in statement (through configuration)
- Your actions and knowledge determines if the organization will meet its commitment
- Link to organizational policies (through configuration)
- Information should be accessible to everyone including people with disabilities
- People with disabilities include people who:
- Cannot see very well or are blind
- Cannot hear very well or are deaf
- Have impaired motor skills or are paralyzed
- Have learning or cognitive disabilities that affects their ability to read text or understand images
- Compatibility with assistive technologies and OS accessibility features
- Properly nested headings for logically organizing content
- Formatting blocks of content with the proper semantics
- Reserve inline styling for lower level emphasis within a formatted block of text
- Insure link text describes the target page of the link
- A proper text alternative is provided for each image
- Lists are used instead of inline styling to group a series of related items
- Data tables include column and row headings
- Emphasis on heading and block formats and discourages improper use of inline styles
- "Format" and "Styles" buttons replaced with "Heading", "Block Format" and "Inline Style" buttons
- Link dialog will prompt you to improve the accessibility of link display text
Purpose is to help orient people to accessible authoring and to the features of the A11yFirst plug-ins.
- What is accessibility and why is it important
- Heading structure
- "Block Format" versus "Inline Style" menus
- Why link text matters
- The published result will have improved compatibility with assistive technology and built-in OS accessibility features (A11y)
- Branding consistency through restrictions in format and inline style
- Improved use of document structure for SEO compatibility
- Improved document flow and organization for readability