Design for Access: Making Online Content Accessible
Jessamyn West
for the Reaching Across Illinois Library System
https://librarian.net/talks/rails
Slides
Links
- The Controversial Process of Redesigning the Wheelchair Symbol
- The Social Model of Disability (quotation from UMN - Duluth)
- Crip Camp movie
- #FilmDis - advocating for authentic representation and inclusion of disabled people (discussion on Twitter 2nd Sat of every month)
- Social media follows: Rikki Poynter, James Rath, Tommy Edison, Zach Anner, Vilissa Thompson
- Video Captions Benefit Everyone by Morton Ann Gernsbacher in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (PIBBS)
- CBS on their described video (7 hours per week)
- ADP: Netflix Audio Described Titles (also from Netflix)
- ADP: Older movies with audio description
- Photosensitive epilepsy and online content
- Usability.gov: Color Blindness & Web Design
- Wikipedia: Neurodivergence, Simple Wikipedia
- S. R. Ranganathan and the Five Laws of Library Science
Howtos
- Alt text examples
- Web Accessibility Initiative: Alt text decision tree for images
- DIAGRAM Center: Image description for complex topics
- Rev: How to Add Captions & Subtitles to Videos on Different Video Platforms in 2021
- DCMP: Guidelines and Best Practices for Describing Educational Video
- Rev: How to Turn Captions On in YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, Netflix and Hulu
- Rev: How to force YouTube captions ON
- Google: Present slides with captions
- Google: Using captions in a video call
- Zoom: Managing automated captioning, managing manual captioning
- Facetime: How to enable Live Captions (iOS 16 only)
- PLAIN: Plain language guidelines
- ADAN: Guidelines for Writing About People With Disabilities
- NPR: How to talk about disability sensitively and avoid ableist tropes
- More resources from Inclusive Arts Vermont
Tools
- Captions: CADET - Caption And Description Editing Tool
- Subtitling: amara - Online & crowdsourced subtitling
- Getting Subtitles: Open Subtitles
- Ripping Subtitles: SubRip
- Language: Conscious Style Guide
- Video playback: VLC
- Reference guides from NLS: Audio Description, Producers of Accessible Reading Materials
- Website testing: WAVE, a Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool
- More resources from WebAIM
Image Credits
- Librarian by Komkrit Noenpoempisut from the Noun Project
- unique by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project
- Wheelchair icon from the Accessible Icon project
- Dominick Evans tweet
- Film by art shop from the Noun Project
- Phil Shapiro on guitar
- Thinking by Gregor Cresnar from the Noun Project
- Misc icon by Keller from the Noun Project
- Color blindness image from User Interface Design & Implementation
- Blinky video image from Meditation HD
- Computer mouse from vector portal
- Ranganathan portrait
- Library Takeout video
- Boom They're Reading meme