{"id":2203,"date":"2022-06-30T09:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2022-06-30T09:33:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T09:33:18","slug":"accessible-and-inclusive-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/posts\/2203","title":{"rendered":"Accessible and Inclusive Slides"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yesterday I facilitated two workshops on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/tharindu_slideshare\/powerpoint-accessibility-workshop\">Accessible and Inclusive Slides<\/a>. This was part of the Tutor Engagement Day at UCEM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was the first time I did the same workshop twice online and in-person on the same day. In the workshop, I provided a set of slides infested with accessibility and inclusivity issues and we explored how we can make them accessible and inclusive. I used breakout rooms and polls in the online session (with the help of my colleague Caroline) and group work and asked for responses in-person. Both sessions went very well and the discussion following them was rich and made me go and search for more information, which showed that I learned from the experience too.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/key\/rrB5ixgrEhQmOt?hostedIn=slideshare&amp;page=upload\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\" frameborder=\"0\" alt=\"presentation slides\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p>So what did we discuss? We looked at common accessibility issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>colour contrast<\/li><li>differentiation by colour<\/li><li>images of text<\/li><li>slide titles<\/li><li>screenshots of tables<\/li><li>font, font size, justification, and case<\/li><li>ALT text (Alternative text) for images<\/li><li>audio\/video and transcript\/captions<\/li><li>not using videos with flashing<\/li><li>links<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We looked at tools that help identify such issues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>checking reading order<\/li><li>using accessibility checker<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/webaim.org\/resources\/contrastchecker\/\">colour contrast checker<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.color-blindness.com\/coblis-color-blindness-simulator\/\">Coblis colour blindness simulator<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We also looked at ways to make presentations more inclusive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>inclusive language<\/li><li>inclusive names, examples<\/li><li>inclusive images<\/li><li>inclusive links that can be accessed by our international students (for example some YouTube links cannot be accessed from certain countries)<\/li><li>defining acronyms and technical terms<\/li><li>providing slides before a session<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We also discussed other good practice such as using copyright free images and giving references.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Discussion following the session was very rich and a participant shared their experience of a student with photosensitive epilepsy informing them of <a href=\"https:\/\/photographylife.com\/what-is-moire\">moire effect<\/a> and how some images are difficult for them to view. I also learned that webcam under tube light can also be difficult for people with photosensitive epilepsy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We then looked at how we can write abbreviations in ALT text as the screen readers will not differentiate them. I found this <a href=\"https:\/\/accessibility.psu.edu\/abbreviations\/\">Penn State University guideline about abbreviations <\/a>where they suggest adding spaces between characters. For example, instead of WCAG writing W C A G to denote the abbreviation for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines if this was to be included in an ALT text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I look forward to facilitating the next Accessibility session on Accessible Colour next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reflection of the  two workshops on Accessible and Inclusive Slides that I facilitated as part of the Tutor Engagement Day at UCEM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,20,1],"tags":[26,127,194,115],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ucem.ac.uk\/onlineeducation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}