Join us this week where our guest Charissa Ramirez, Policy Officer at the New South Wales Department of Customer Service as we discuss PDF vs HTML, designing with accessibility in mind and hear her accessibility journey and advice for those just starting on the path of accessibility. This week sponsor is CommonLook and we thank them for their support.
Order Panel versus Layer Panel, Actual Text and blind gaming
Join us this week where we talk about the Order panel versus the Layer panel and what to use, when. We also bring up an important point about Actual Text and how you can unintentionally misuse it. Our “Who’s on Twitter Spotlight” features a blind World of Warcraft player and our sponsor this episode is CommonLook. You do not want to miss this episode!
Be My Eyes, Creative Pro Week and Loo Bell Woo!
This week we talk about Be My Eyes.com, some great movies starring people with disabilities as well as the great content in our upcoming sessions for Creative Pro Week. Listen in and see who is on Twitter this week to hear who is loo bell woo!
Accessibility Tools in PDF Preflight Fixups and Made to Tag plugin for InDesign
In this episode we cover PDF Preflight Fixups. Accessibility quick fixes you might not have ever known was there. We also talk about a great plugin for InDesign called Made to Tag by Axaio that helps export compliant tables right from InDesign.
Guest: Sheri Byrne-Haber on starting an accessibility program in your organization
This week, we are excited because we have a very special guest. So Sheri Byrne-Haber is someone that I have been following for a long time on Medium and she and I have become friends on LinkedIn. I look forward to her articles, they are always so great. Sherry is an accessibility architect with VMware. And I’m really happy to introduce Sherry to you here today at Chax Chat. So Sheri, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?
Guest: Whitney Quesenbery author of “A Web for Everyone”
Alright guys, welcome to another episode of Chax Chat. I’m here with Chad Chelius, and we have a special guest today, Whitney Quesenbery, who happens to be the co-author of “A Web For Everyone” and she now runs the Center for Civic Design. Whitney, welcome to the program. We wanted to have Whitney on as a guest because one of the things that is interesting is, you know, with accessibility being promoted in a lot of companies right now, you know, fighting that pushback of when do you start accessibility?
Jose Martinez of the Lighthouse for the Blind talks about Alt-text for Hyperlinks and forms mode for screen readers
Listen to our guest speaker, Jose Martinez of the Lighthouse for the Blind as he talks about his experience with forms and the problems with forms mode. We also talk about alt-text on hyperlinks and why they are important. It’s our fourth podcast and we’re getting a lot of good feedback, which is exciting and, you know, just really enjoying creating these podcasts and getting the word out getting people’s feedback.
Microsoft’s not-an-Artifact tag, Go-to Accessibility Tools and methods for Testing for A11y compliance
Topics for this episode includes the not-an-Artifact tag, Go-to Accessibility Tools and methods for Testing for compliance. Welcome to another episode of Chax Chat. Join Chad Chelius and me, Dax Castro, where each week we wax poetic about document accessibility topics, tips, and the struggle of remediation and compliance. So sit back, grab your favorite mug of whatever. And let’s get started.
Apple VoiceOver, Heading Structure and Foreign Language Codes
Topics for this episode include Apple VoiceOver, Heading Structure and Foreign Language Codes. Alright guys, welcome to Episode Two. Right. So here we are, again, Chad, Another week, another set of topics, another great set of information to talk about. So I think, how’d you think last week when I thought it went pretty well?
Why multiple H1 tags is okay, colorblind friendly color palettes and usability vs compliance
Topics for this episode include the use of multiple H1 tags, Adobe Color for colorblind friendly palettes, usability vs code compliance. Alright guys, welcome to Episode Two. Alright, Chad, welcome to Episode Three. This has been great, really awesome. The feedback on the episodes has been great. And and I think, you know…