Presented at ConfabEdu in Atlanta, Georgia, November 11, 2013, Derek Featherstone shows us several lessons about making our content more accessible to people with visual, cognitive, hearing, and mobility/dexterity related disabilities.

1. <h2> News for Movember 11, 2013 </h2>

2. <h2> Highlights for Movember 11, 2013 </h2>

8. Make your
Content Accessible

9. Derek Featherstone
feather@simplyaccessible.com
@feather

10. We create more accessible solutions
through better content, design, and
development.

11. We create more accessible solutions
through better content, design, and
development.

12. LESSON 1
Provide great document structure

17. LESSON 2
Provide orientation
and way finding clues

18. <title>!
Admission: Stanford University!
</title>!

26. LESSON 3
Perfect your text alternatives

29. What’s the call to action?

30. What’s the call to action?

31. <a href="javascript:void(0);">!
<img src=“images/homepage_tool_programs.png”!
alt=“visit">!
</a>

32. Lesson: Calls to action must match

33. Lesson: Calls to action must match

34. LESSON 4
Decide which images are content

36. Windows HCM: background images disappear

37. LESSON 5
Understand context
before you write.

39. alt=”Jordan with a surprised look on his face”

41. alt=”Jordan with an angry look on his face”

43. alt=”Jordan with a scheming look on his face”

45. alt=”Jordan with a happy look on his face”

46. We must look at context.

47. In the book Hungry Like the Wolf, Jordan
and Sue are the main characters. They
have been friends for years. How did
Jordan feel when Sue told him that...?

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51. alt=”
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52. LESSON 6
Consider infographics
and process carefully.

55. LESSON 7
Create multiple methods
to achieve a goal.

56. Use captions, transcripts and external links.

57. LESSON 8
Create content specifically
for people with disabilities.

58. Content specific to people with disabilities?

59. LESSON 9
Write front-loaded content.

60. Front-loaded
content

61. Front-loaded
content

62. <img src="../Thumbnail.png" alt="TapType">

63. <img src="../Thumbnail.png"
alt="Video: Features of the TapType keyboard" />

64. <img src="../Thumbnail.png"
alt="Video: TapType keyboard features" />

65. CONT
ENT
Front
TIP
-load
help
cont
those
ent
LINE consum to
ARL ing
Y
<img src="../Thumbnail.png"
alt="Video: TapType keyboard features" />

66. LESSON 10
Write for scan-ability.

76. USE HEADINGS
TO YOUR ADVANTAGE

83. This helps you create content that is
more accessible for people with
many different abilities using a
variety of tools.

84. Visual
Auditory
Mobility/Dexterity
Cognitive

85. Every lesson we’ve learned today is
informed by one of four core
principles of accessibility.

86. P
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87. P erceivable
O perable
U nderstandable
R obust

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