GT Training
2017 Fall Workshop
- Introduction to ICT Accessibility for Higher Education
- Registration Required; Private Training for GT
- Date: November 9, 2017
- Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
- Location: AMAC Training Room
Contact Information
- For information regarding this event, please contact
- Janet Sylvia, WAG Coordinator, wag@amac.gatech.edu
- or call AMAC Accessibility Solutions at 1-404-894-8000
Presenter Slides
- Fall Workshop - All Presenters (PDF)
- Individual PDFs of each section are available from the Agenda below
- Important Note: use your Browser's Back button to return to this page after accessing individual files
Agenda
- Welcome and Introductions
- Presenter: Janet Sylvia, AMAC
- Slides: Welcome and Introductions (PDF)
- Resource Links:
- Why ICT Accessibility is Important in Higher Education
- Presenter: Janet Sylvia, AMAC
- Slides: Why ICT Accessibility
- Resource Links:
- GT IT Accessibility Policy Overview
- Presenter: J. Denise Johnson-Marshall, GT
- Presenter: J. Burns Newsome, GT
- Slides: GT IT Accessibility Policy (PDF)
- Resource Links:
- Laws and Guidelines for Accessible ICT
- Presenter: Dr. Linda Gilbert, AMAC
- Slides: Laws and Guidlines (PDF)
- Resource Links:
- Assistive Technology (AT) and Web-based Environments
- Presenter: John Rempel, AMAC
- Slides Assistive Technology in Web-based Environments
- Resource Links:
- Basic Principles of Accessible Web Content
- Presenter: Dr. Linda Gilbert, AMAC
- Slides: Basic Principles of Accessible Web Content
- Accessible Word, PowerPoint and PDF Documents
- Presenter: Tim Georges, AMAC
- Slides: Accessible Documents (PDF) | Slides: Accessible Documents (Word, PowerPoint and PDF)
- What Have You Learned and How AMAC Can Help
- Presenter: Janet Sylvia, AMAC
- Slides: What Have You Learned, Help and Contact Information (PDF)
Follow-up Webinar
- Thursday December 7, 2017 from 9:00am-10:00am
- Login Link will be Emailed to Participants of this Training
- Q/A and Follow-up Discussion
- Resource Links
- Text Transcripts, Video Description, Descriptive Text Transcripts
- Transcripts on the Web: Getting People to Your Podcasts and Videos
- Example: Text Transcript - Podcast
- Example: Text Transcript - Video
- Example Descriptive Text Transcript: Caption and Description Transcript for QuickTime Movie: "Catch!"
- Example Descriptive Text Transcript: Wheeling in Second Life
- W3C: Link to Download the QuickTime Movie "Catch!"
- Resources (intended for Audio Description)
- Resources (intended for Captioning and Transcription)
- ADA Consent Decree: Miami (Ohio) University, includes Student Organization Websites (Item E)
- AIM HIGH Act of 2017 (track progress here)
- Text Transcripts, Video Description, Descriptive Text Transcripts
Additional Resources from Discussion
- Readily Achievable Web Accessibility Solutions (John Rempel, newsletter with embedded video)
- Web Accessibility Tutorials (W3C), Guidance on How to Create Websites that Meet WCAG
- An Alt Decision Tree, W3C - sample of accessible decision tree
- Captions and Descriptions Decision Trees, W3C - sample of accessible decision tree
- Carousel Concepts (W3C)
- Accessibility Expert Warns: stop using carousels, an alternate view of accessibility and image carousels
- Image Description Guidelines (Diagram Center)
- Flowcharts and Concept Maps, the Flowchart provides a sample of simple decision tree with text alternative
- DCMP Captioning Key
- AMAC Accessibility Memberships