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This wiki page is for documenting the technology tools used by At-Large in terms of accessibility and if needed, provide feedback to ICANN.

Background and other useful information


Adobe Connect

Accessify

Browser  Resizing tool 

http://www.accessify.com/screencasts/browser-text-resizing/

If you are finding it difficult to read some text when viewing a web site you can resize the text up and down to suit your needs. However, by default web browsers - for example Internet Explorer and Firefox - do not make it obvious that you can do this; effectively they hide these useful controls. Using Internet Explorer, otherwise known as IE, you can change the font size by selecting the View menu item and then selecting the Text Size option - you have 5 size settings to pick from. This is useful to know and once you select this setting, it is remembered for all web sites that you visit. A better option is to place a text resize control permanently on your toolbar. To do this, press your right mouse button on the toolbar area to bring up the contextual menu and choose 'Customize'. A list of available toolbar buttons appears on the left. Scroll down to the Text icon and then select 'Add'. You can also change the display of the icons while you're hear, just in case you find the toolbar icons a little small too. Once you hit the close button, you'll see a Text Size control there, making it much easier to change the size.

If you are using IE 7, the process is much the same - right click on the toolbar, but you need to select 'Customize Command Bar' then 'Add or Remove Commands'

In Firefox, you can increase the font size in a similar way to Internet Explorer. Unlike IE, you are not limited to 5 sizes (that being two notches up and two notches down from the default).

Unfortunately Firefox does not provide a toolbar icon for text resizing, even if you choose to customise. However, Patrick Lauke from the University of Salford has created an extension that creates a set of buttons that you can add to your toolbar. Simply go to the Firefox Extensions page and search for the 'Text Size Toolbar', or go to tinyurl.com/2ztudx. Once you've installed the extension and restarted Firefox, right click on your toolbar and choose customise. There you will find the resize buttons which you can drag and drop on to your toolbar.

There are other ways that you can change text size on a web page. If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, simply hold down the CTRL key - or the command key if you are a Mac user - and move the scroll wheel up and down. For Firefox users, hold down the CTRL key and press the plus (+) and minus (-) keys. Finally, if you are using Internet Explorer 7, you can hold down the CTRL key and press the plus or minus keys which will zoom the whole page in and out of view.


Accessible  Forms 

Ask anyone who has had to fix a web site that is littered with accessibility howlers, top-most in their list of problems encountered will be forms, closely followed by tables. These two topics always seem to present the most difficulties, but they needn't be a problem. For the most part, forms are a problem because the extra accessibility tags are simply not known to the web designer - after all, it looks right, it seems to work - what's the problem? Only by switching off the monitor and using a screen-reader can our oblivious web developer understand the problems.

http://www.accessify.com/features/tutorials/accessible-forms/#labelinfo


Testing  Website  

http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/favelets/quick-page-test/

While there are some excellent accessibility toolbars that you can add to your browser, and also numerous online validators that you can use, sometimes the wealth and breadth of the tools on offer can actually be a bit overwhelming.The Quick Page Accessibility Tester (oh for a more catchy name!) is bookmarklet/favelet that you can click on at any time which will give you a quick analysis of any web page. It highlights definite issues with your page, warns about possible issues and also highlights areas on the page that might benefit from some ARIA enhancements.


Captioning

http://cnice.idrc.ocad.ca/tools.php

This open source tool was developed by Ryerson University's Centre for Learning Technology as a way to further explore modality translation concepts examined in the CNICE project. The tool enables individuals with no professional training to include captions and video descriptions in their online audiovisual content. This tool has been previewed by professional video describers and was very positively received. Download CapScribe.

 

CapScribe System Requirements:

 

  • Macintosh G4 or G5 with Mac OS X 10.3 and later
  • 500 MHz PowerPC G4 processor or greater
  • 512 MB RAM or greater
  • 100 MB available disk space

 

Flash Captioning Tool

 

The flash captioning tool was developed by marblemedia for deafplanet.com. Flash enables online video to have high quality without making excessive bandwidth demands, however, a captioning tool was not available for this format. The flash captioning tool enables developers to control the captioning environment, determining the placement, font size, colour, etc, while at the same time not sacrificing user control. Download the Flash Captioning Tool.

 

Interesting article 

http://wac.osu.edu/examples/youtube-player-controls/



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