Targeted Audience: K-12 General Education and Special Education Teachers, Administrators and Therapists
Date: Wednesday, September 8, 2021
Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Speaker: Lyssa Prince
Microsoft Word has several features that help document creators and editors to create more accessible documents. More accessible Word documents create more accessible PDF files as well. During this session, you will learn tools and techniques in Microsoft Word to make sure that your documents are more accessible. At a minimum, we will discuss and demonstrate how Word supports creating accessible document titles, properly structured headings, properly structured lists, text equivalents for visual elements, more accessible data tables, using color more carefully, and providing descriptive text for links. Should we have time we will pass along more tips and tricks. You will leave the session with more confidence that your Word documents are more accessible to people with disabilities.
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Accessible PDF Documents from the Start
Targeted Audience: K-12 General Education and Special Education Teachers, Administrators and Therapists
Date: Thursday, September 9, 2021
Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Speaker: Lyssa Prince
PDF documents can present some significant barriers if accessibility is not accounted for in the source document (ex: Word, PowerPoint, InDesign). In this session, we will discuss the accessibility issues we commonly see in PDF documents and connect them back to the topics discussed in the session on Microsoft Word. We will dig into the Tags Tree and discuss how each of the structures, such as headings, lists, links, and tables should be represented in the PDF. We will also provide some tips on things to watch out for upon conversion from Microsoft Office. We recommend that anyone attending this PDF session either has previous knowledge of Microsoft Word Accessibility or attends the session on Microsoft Word in this series. We will be using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC for this session.
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Using Google Docs to Create More Accessible Documents + A Focus on Accessible Tables
Targeted Audience: K-12 General Education and Special Education Teachers, Administrators and Therapists
Date: Friday, September 10, 2021
Time: 3:00-4:00 p.m. ET
Speaker: Lyssa Prince
Google has several features that help document creators and editors to create more accessible documents. During this session, you will learn tools and techniques in Google to make sure that your documents are more accessible. At a minimum, we will discuss and demonstrate how Google supports creating accessible document titles, properly structured headings, properly structured lists, text equivalents for visual elements, more accessible data tables, using color more carefully, and providing descriptive text for links. We will also discuss Grackle Docs, which is necessary to create accessible PDF files from Google documents. In addition, we will focus on how to best to use tables, strategies for simplifying complex tables, and the necessities of accessible tables, such as proper header structure.
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Speaker:
Lyssa Prince is an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Accessibility Coordinator with Oklahoma ABLE Tech. She has a Master of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) degree from the University of Oklahoma and applies the user-centered approaches from the information sciences to digital accessibility. Lyssa enjoys digging into the meat of websites and applications to provide targeted feedback on how to include people of all abilities in an organization's digital presence. In addition to assessing websites for accessibility, she provides training and technical assistance on how to integrate accessibility into Adobe PDF, Microsoft Office, as well as how to perform accessibility testing. Lyssa was certified by the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) as a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA) in 2020.
Accommodations:
CART captioning is provided for all SCATP webinars. If you need an additional accommodation to participate in this webinar, please contact the SC Assistive Technology Program at least one week prior to the webinar via e-mail at janet.lambert@uscmed.sc.edu or by calling 803-935-5263.
All SC Assistive Technology Program’s webinars are recorded and archived. If you cannot attend the live session, please go to our training page 24 hours after the webinar and register for the video link and transcript.
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact the SC Assistive Technology Program at janet.lambert@uscmed.sc.edu or by calling 803-935-5263.
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