Digital Documentation As Accessible As Possible

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Digital DocumentationAs Accessible As Possible

• Enda P Guinan Claire McAvinia
• NUI Maynooth

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Digital Documents
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Practical Benefits

• Take advantage of the medium
• Create large documents more efficiently
• Re-use material easily
• Helps ensure ease of access

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Let Everyone Get Your Work

• Visually impaired users
• Screenreaders can 'see' text in good docs
• Tags add navigability
• Restricted mobility users
• Text reflow on the page reduces need to move
  mouse
• People with dyslexia, dyspraxia etc
• Can use with assistive technology
• Can repurpose as audio/print
• Can choose own fonts, colour schemes, layout

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Checklist

• Will plain text do?
• Match format with context
• Can users download, open and manipulate you
  material easily?
• Not sure about fonts, colours? - Let your user
  decide
• Are images needed?

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Plain text HTML

• Can be read by almost anything.
• Alternative to/accompany PDF/PowerPoint?
• Retains useful tags for screenreaders etc.
• Easily repurposed
• Moodle

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In conclusion

• Minor changes greater access
• People with disabilities
• Distance/international students
• Less competent users
• Variety of devices, platforms
• Good practice more efficiency
• Simple text most accessible flexible
• More info _at_ digidocs.nuim.ie

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