acessibility features of c

1. supporting inclusion:
Accessibility Essentials
13 March 2012
www.rsc-em.ac.uk Martin Cooke ILT Advisor RSC EM

2. Programme
● Windows Ease of Access Centre
• MS Word: Structuring documents
• Adobe Reader: pdf reflow and pdf autoscroll
• Using images and sound

3. Programme
Are you on Windows 7?
if you are
X if not

4. Ease of Access Centre

5. Structuring documents
benefits
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● headings and subheadings for intrinsic structure
● consistency
● easy to amend
● accessibility benefits
● ease of navigation supports VI, dyslexic etc

6. Document Map
document map
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Word has an inbuilt navigation system
If styles have been used consistently the Document
Map will provide a dynamic navigation or outline
NB in Office 2010 View > Navigation Pane

7. Document map

8. screenreaders
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http://webaim.org/techniques/tables/
let's pretend that you are a screen reader user. You visit a web site to find
out where the biology 205 class is going to be held. This is what you hear:
Table with 10 columns and 7 rows. Department Code,
Class Number, Section, Max Enrollment, Current
Enrollment, Room Number, Days, Start Time, End Time,
Instructor, BIO, 100, 1, 15, 13, 5, Mon,Wed,Fri, 10:00, 11:
00, Magde, 100, 2, 15, 7, 5, Tue,Thu, 11:00, 12:30,
Indge, 205, 1, 15, 9, 6, Tue,Thu, 09:00, 10:30, Magde,
315, 1, 12, 3, 6, Mon,Wed,Fri, 13:00, 14:00, Indge, BUS,
150, 1, 15, 15, 13, Mon,Wed,Fri, 09:00, 10:00, Roberts,
210, 1, 10, 9, 13, Mon,Wed,Fri, 08:00, 09:00, Rasid.

9. Adding sound files to Word
embedding sounds in Word
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEcOnmCsgdM&feature=player_embedded

10. pdf accessibility
Why use pdfs?
Why would you want to convert your documents to
pdf ?
If the doc has been correctly structured this will be
carried over to the pdf
Alt text for images should be added to the source
doc before converting to pdf

11. Adobe Reader
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Backgrounds
Personalise font and background colour to suit your visual reading
preference.
Edit > Preferences > Accessibility tab
Zoom
Enlarge text to 6400% using the zoom function without pixilation as it
becomes larger.
View > Zoom > Zoom To
Reflow
If zoomed text becomes too big on the page, the reflow function will fit
all the text on the screen without the need for horizontal scrolling
View > Zoom > Reflow.

13. Adobe Reader
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Auto-scroll
Automatically scroll through a document without having to use
your mouse or keyboard. View > Automatically Scroll
Speed controlled via arrow keys
Read out loud
reads out loud. Select voice, pitch and speed.
View > Read Out Loud > Activate Read Out Loud
Navigate
to any part of the PDF using the bookmarks. This is similar to
the Doc Map in Word
Has to be structured correctly.
View > Navigation Panels > Bookmarks

17. Accessibility Essentials series
http://goo.gl/2A39k
Making Electronic Documents More Readable
amend the look and feel of digital reading materials to suit you
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/AccessibilityEssentials/2007/AE1/index.html
Writing Accessible Electronic Documents with MS Word
user can amend the look and feel in a way which suits them.
Font and structure techniques can improve readability
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/AccessibilityEssentials/2007/AE2/index.html

18. Accessibility Essentials series
Creating Accessible Presentations
concentrates on the use of Microsoft® PowerPoint.
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/resources/detail/resources/AE3-2007
Making the Most of PDFs
creating Portable Document Format (PDF) documents in a
more accessible manner.
http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/resources/detail/resources/AE4-2007

19. If you do nothing else as a follow up to this session please use
and share this link
http://itq.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_6
interactivity and navigations in xerte
accessibility features of Word and Adobe Reader

20. free Pdf converters

21. free Pdf readers

22. martin.cooke@rsc-em.ac.uk
www.jiscrscuk.ac.uk