Friday, February 22, 2008

Accessibility Training Video

While I am waist-deep in PowerPoint accessibility research for the BPDCC Accessibility Research Group, I came across a 2 hour web accessibility training video filmed at Washington State University. Hosted by Guest Presenter Todd DeVries, the video features disabled technologists talking about their experiences using the web.

While I don't agree with all of their recommendations and comments, as a web designer I found it very useful to see disabled users speaking candidly while demonstrating assistive devices. A low vision designer pseudo-demos a refreshable Braille display, explaining he doesn't have one because they are upwards of $5000!

Screen readers, Text enlargement, skip navigation links, making links understandable in context are all discussed. For instance...click here to watch the video...not a good idea!

http://experience.wsu.edu/scholarvids/webtraining.ram

You will need to download Real Player.