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Accessibility Resources
Accessibility can mean many different things. When developing and designing your own projects, it is best to consider it as a part of your process rather than afterwards. Below are tools and resources to help make multimedia resources accessible and help you capture the broadest audience possible.
Several free evaluation tools to check web content for accessibility issues including a website audit based on a URL and a color contrast checker. You can set the country to ensure compliance in several different countries.
Free tool to check the color contrast meets WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards. Color Blind Safe tool also available.
Adobe Premiere Pro: Speech to Text
Guidance on generating transcriptions and captions to video. As with all automated tools, the results should always been checked for accuracy.
American Disabilities Act (ADA) and Web Accessibility
Guidance on Web Accessibility and the ADA including examples of accessibility barriers, when the ADA requires web content to be accessible, and a variety of related resources.
Harvard University: Tips On Writing Good Alt Text
Guidance, techniques, and examples on how to write good alt text which provides alternative information to an image that cannot otherwise be seen.
Guidance on manually adding text and titles to an iMovie project.
Microsoft Autogenerated Captions
Microsoft's Stream video player app can automatically generate captions using Automatic Speech Recognition technology if a video's Language field is set to a supported language. Only MP4 and WMV files are currently supported for automatic transcripts. As with all automated tools, the results should always been checked for accuracy.
Free tool that automatically adds and translates subtitles on videos. Compatible with iOS and Android/PCs. As with all automated tools, the results should always been checked for accuracy.
OpenDyslexicOpenDyslexic is a typeface designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia. It is free to download and use.
Pratt Libraries LibGuide: Web Accessibility
An introduction compiled by Pratt Libraries to the principles of web accessibility and overviews of the World Wide Web Consortium guidelines and United States law pertaining to web accessibility.
Section 508: Accessible Videos
Guidance and tips on how to create accessible videos. Section 508 is a U.S. federal law requiring all users, regardless of disability, to have a comparable experience from all government media, including videos.
WAVE Web Accessibility Evaluator
A suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content. You can use the online WAVE tool by entering a web page address (URL).
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 Overview
An overview of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines which define how to make web content more accessible to people with disabilities. Covers a range of disabilities, including, but not limited to visual, auditory, physical, speech, cognitive, language, learning, and neurological disabilities.