You are welcome. What I recommend is that even though you are coming up with
these policies to make apps, documents, and presentations accessible for your
company, you will want to use your newly acquired knowledge from the standards
I recommended in my last email to know if an app or information produced by it
like a document is accessible. The only true way to know if an app, site, or
document is accessible is to try using it. If it is not, you can reference the
part of the accessibility standards that are relevant for making it accessible.
Also keep in mind that if it is a big app, the company may not be able to
afford to make the app itself accessible, but may consider that when and if it
is time to redesign that app. In some cases, you may need to make due with
features of your screen reader like graphics and custom labels, to help improve
the app's accessibility, or some basic scripting to access those essential
parts of the app or site. Also, when you run into a situation where the app
cannot be accessible, consider finding out if information from the inaccessible
app can be exported to a more accessible Word document, HTML, or PDF. Finally,
do not underestimate the power of asking for help. There will be times when it
is so much faster to narrow down what you need, and have a co-worker look at
the screen with you. That may save you hours of trying to find workarounds to
do something basic, like get a video to play. Pressing alt+print screen to take
a screenshot is one way to do this, if you do not have time to meet with the
co-worker. That screen shot is copied to your clipboard, and you can paste it
into an email. I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Mike
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Thanks for this info. I appreciate it.
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Hi Juan,
Research Web Content Accessibility Guidelines by the World Wide Web Consortium.
The latest is 2.0. You will also want to become familiar with Section 508 of
the Rehabilitation Act, part of access-board.gov. Additionally, read through
Creating Nonvisually Accessible
Documents<https://nfb.org/images/nfb/products_technology/creating_accessible_documents.docx>.
Mike
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Hi All,
I am developing an accessibility framework/ guidelines for my company.
One of the sections is for external tooling. Can you guys give me any pointers
on this? What I mean by external tooling is software that the company buys to
use internally for Blind and visually impaired employees.
Some of my questions are:
What is the best way to determine a software is accessible? What are some
guidelines to follow for this? Etc...
I am trying to develop an accessibility policy for my company. I have a
section for static documents like word, pdf, etc. How to determine that they
are accessible, how to make accessible documents etc.
Any pointers I would truly appreciate.
Best,
Juan Hernandez
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