Chax Chat Accessibility Podcast

How do you tag a catalog that has a full page of color swatches? Chad and Dax tackle this and several other burning questions. We review our amazing time at Creative Pro Week and Knowbility AccessU. Dax reveals a 'seemingly obvious' tip to change focus from the tags or bookmark bar to the main content using keyboard only in NVDA. Be sure to stick around to hear how Chad blew Dax's mind while on-stage at Creative Pro Week.

Join Chad and Dax as they reveal several hidden techniques like disabling MS Word's Automatic Alt-text. Do you know what a Graphical Object is? Make sure you listen in and hear them explain some key principles of accessible color that many people misinterpret. Listen to Chad explain how accessibility is like a hole in a piece of paper. This is definitely an episode packed full of nuggets of wisdom.

Join us and our guests from Goodmaps, Evelyn Tichenor, Chief of Staff & Mike May, Chief Evangelist as we talk about indoor mapping and the challenges of too little or too much information. We discuss the struggles of the visual world and how our brains are constantly artifacting items all around us. Goodmaps is a smartphone camera-based application that allows you to navigate a pre-mapped indoor environment. Do not miss Mike May talking about how travel is completely different for someone with a visual disability and how important context and 'extra information' can be.

Join us this week as we talk with Amanda Mace, one of two Australia-based W3C evangelists and Office Manager for the W3C's Australian Western Region and Vice President of Australasia for AbleDocs. In this episode we cover how to deal with multiple languages with a screen reader like NVDA and JAWS.

Other topics include:

• The nuances of English-US, English-AU, English-CA and English-UK

• Install NVDA and JAWS language packs

• The initial shock of always-on screen readers

• How to silence your screen reader

• Upcoming Webinar on Document Accessibility Testing with a Screen Reader

• How to test with a Screen Reader if you are Deaf

• Focus indicator good for PDF not for web testing

• Callas PDFgoHTML as an evaluation tool

• No PDF/UA equivalent for How-to HTML pages

• Unlimited potential solutions for HTML accessibility

• Pass or Fail for WCAG

• Accessible Alternatives for PDF Tables

• University of Nebraska's Responsive Table Generator rTool - https://ianrmedia.unl.edu/responsive-table-generator-tool

• Finding the value in deciding PDF or HTML

• The evolution of accessibility in PDF

• The hazards of entrenching behind PDF versus HTML

• The workflow hurdles of creating HTML pages

Chris Smart brings a unique perspective as a native Assistive Technology user to the world of document accessibility. Listen in as Chad Chelius and Dax Castro, ADS dive into some of the struggles of using assistive technology and balancing features versus clear navigation. Additional topics include:

• Creative Pro Week One-Two Punch

• Guest Chris Smart Native AT User and Accessibility Tester

• Accessible Form Frustrations

• Scanned PDFs vs Print to PDF

• Forms Mode Experiences

• The List of Lists for AT users

• Differences in PDF Document Exploration

• How Screen Reader Experience Varies

• The Balancing Act of Accessibility

Do not miss the details on how to get the free downloadable PDF entitled WCAG in Plain English that covers the principles you need to know for document accessibility.

Chad and Dax recap their CSUN Assistive Technology Conference and how Chad ran into Stevie Wonder. Catch their discussion on Accessible Tables with Colors, the Drawbacks of Excel for Accessibility, Accessible Money and foreign currency with a screen reader.

If you didn't get to see us live at the Center on Disabilities at CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, or get to watch the video, here is the audio podcast version of the show. It is PACKED with tons of info and almost a full hour long!!!! We even answered questions from our online and live audience.

Topics include:

• Dealing with Math Symbols in your documents

• Missing spaces between words

• Answering questions from listeners

• Nothing about us without us: The best part of CSUN.

• Creating an Accessibility Brand Guide for your organization

• The Department of Health and Human Services HHS Accessibility Standard

• The technical low-down on Table Summaries

• Answering Accessibility questions live on the podcast

• The effect of textboxes to your Word Doc for Accessibility

• The Accessibility benefits of axesWord

• Artifacts in your tags tree

Tune in this week to hear our guest Jeremy Seda from North Idaho College as we discuss some of the struggles of accessibility awareness at the college level and the ongoing state of document accessibility amidst the COVID Pandemic.

This episode we discuss:

Pave the Way for Global Accessibility Awareness Day (PWGAAD) - April 20, 2022

• Funkify Disability Simulation Plugin • How Jujitsu applies to Document Accessibility • Covid Cases or Inaccessible Information: Which grew faster? • How the CDC improved their level of Document Accessibility • Say My Meme Accessibility Podcast • Be My Eyes • Look to Speak Eye Gaze Conversation Tool • PWGAAD Directional Audio • Being the only "Expert in your Organization" • Accessibility Struggles in Higher Education • Accessibility Camp Coeur d'Alene • Tactile maps and other technologies

Upcoming CSUN Session Topics: • Document Tag Structure • WCAG in Plain English • Bridging the Accessibility Gaps between Word and PDF • Accessible Tables with Color • Document Accessibility in Higher Education

Join Chad and Dax as they preview their upcoming session at the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference on Document Accessibility in Higher Education. They discuss the problems with multiple source files, HTML as a 'more accessible' version of digital content as well as 4 things you can do today to create more accessible content. Be sure to stick around as they talk about WCAG and the PAC checker and when it is okay to delete a tag from the tags tree without triggering untagged content errors.

Did you miss yesterday's NEW ACCESSIBILITY PODCAST Episode on PDF/UA Standards? We cover which standard to use and why. Do you know the difference between a block-level and inline-level element? We unravel the mystery. We even give you some great tips on how to use guides like 14289-1, the Matterhorn Protocol and the PDF/UA Syntax Guide to help further evaluate your documents for accessibility.