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New Content Added – NVDA Screen Reader Testing Resources
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Making sure online content is accessible is ultimately about creating a quality user experience. It’s about considering how different people may access, perceive, understand, and engage with your website, documents, social media content, online systems, etc., and finding the best ways to make it as easy as possible for them. One of the assistive…
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New Content Added – Making Docs Accessible, PAC Tool Training, Communicators Handout
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Making Documents Accessible Page A new Making Documents Accessible page has been added to Luminary Content under “Learn Digital Accessibility.” Most documents found on websites are PDFs, so this page was created to provide some guidance about how to make them accessible. In general, making PDFs accessible is going to be more difficult than it will…
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Today Made Me Smile – Talking Accessibility with Prairie Communicators
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Have you ever had an experience where afterward, it’s like you are floating on a cloud? You find that you can’t stop smiling, and you just want the feeling to last forever? I had one of those moments today after speaking with Prairie Communicators, the local chapter of North Dakota Professional Communicators. I was…
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Progress Over Perfection: Starting Your Digital Accessibility Journey
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For almost a year, I sat on this idea of sharing what I know about digital accessibility because I didn’t know it all. Then it occurred to me—I shouldn’t feel like I know it all because accessibility is a continual journey of discovery. That realization (and the nudge of a friend) inspired me to…
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Why Learning Accessibility Can Seem Hard for Communicators
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Most communicators I know don’t naturally think in technical ways. We tend to gravitate toward creative, people-focused thinking, and although there are best practices and guidelines that we are encouraged to follow, there is usually flexibility to go around them if we want to. In 2012, I wanted to expand my skills, so I…