Accessible Information

This page is brand-spanking new, and has come about as I have been trying to make documents, presentations, videos, and information on the web as accessible as possible. Since I have recently begun reviewing online TAMUCC courses for accessibility and have also just been appointed to the newly formed Committee on Accessible Information Resources at Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi, this page will hopefully fill with links and useful information in the weeks and months to come.

Making Websites Accessible:

WebAim : Color contrast checker

Making PDFs Accessible

Well, first things first, you need to make sure it is real text. Something you scanned in and saved as a pdf isn't going to be real text unless you also used OCR (Ocular Character Recognition) software in the process.

Free OCR Software:

• Microsoft Office Document Imaging -- For use if you already have Microsoft Office. It came included with Office up until the 2007 version, but was discontinued with Office 2010.
• List of some free ocr software
• This guy, Jon Galloway, looks like he did some research on free ocr software
• Tesseract OCR -- now a Google Open-Source project

Making Emails Accessible

Thread on accessibility for news letters

Making Powerpoint Presentations Accessible

• Virtual 508.com - Best Practices for PowerPoint
  • The Slide Layout is where I normally see the most problems. If the layout is such that text doesn't show up in Outline View, then that text is not accessible via most screenreaders. Best Practices for Slide Layout in Powerpoint

Making Microsoft Word Documents Accessible

• Accessible Wizard for Microsoft Office 2007