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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon graciellehigino

Accessibility

Open graciellehigino opened this issue 6 years ago • 8 comments

I usually say that the openess of science doesn't end at an open access paper. Sometimes we need to make things really accessible, either by translating, outreaching or even thinking about the colors that we use in our figures.

With IGNITE things are no different. We need to build our content thinking about everyone that can possibly benefit from it. I'm highly concerned about accessibility, and I suggest that, if you are going to contribute on the lessons (especially), you should pay attention to colors, words and figures.

Let's gather in this issue some resources and tips for making our material more accessible. I'll put a link to it in every issue related to the lessons.

This is a project moved by love.

Making Scientific Content More Accessible
Color Oracle - free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac and Linux

graciellehigino avatar Apr 19 '18 19:04 graciellehigino

I was talking w/ @AdrienneNepenthe about some draft work she has on accessibility in events & slides that I'm planning on incorporating into my own work.

@AdrienneNepenthe would you be able to share it here once the final version is ready?

abbycabs avatar Apr 19 '18 20:04 abbycabs

There are some notes here about accessible research software that may help, too: https://github.com/accessibleresearchsoftware/accessibleresearchsoftware/issues (and feel free to contribute any back you know of)

yochannah avatar Apr 22 '18 13:04 yochannah

Thank you so much, @acabunoc and @yochannah! ❤️

graciellehigino avatar Apr 23 '18 20:04 graciellehigino

This is a great resource I used this year to make presentations more accessible: https://www.diglib.org/dlf-events/2016forum/guide-to-creating-accessible-presentations/

erintripp avatar Apr 24 '18 14:04 erintripp

That's great indeed! Thank you, @erintripp ❤️

graciellehigino avatar Apr 24 '18 19:04 graciellehigino

I went to a conference and Alice Wong (creator of the Disability Visibility Project) and Yosmay de Mazo (who works with NPR's Story Corps) had a lot to say about the accessibility of online materials:

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2017/06/17/dvp-at-allied-media-conference-2017/

Here is the site for the Disability Visability Project:

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/

opendigitalsafety avatar May 10 '18 17:05 opendigitalsafety

Hi, Gracielle!

I'm sending someone links which I found interesting to your project:

  • Manuals to dinamic and accessible presentations in Science:

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3090000/3085564/p56-ladner.pdf?ip=200.17.113.242&id=3085564&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=344E943C9DC262BB%2E93C8E39E13025F4F%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&acm=1525975186_991caa1560afabdc116d4c0966cdb8f4

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~ladner/MakingYourTalkAccessible.pdf

https://www.w3.org/WAI/training/accessible.php

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/how-to-give-a-dynamic-scientific-presentation

http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/01/11/scientific-presentations-a-cheat-sheet/

  • Building a static website with Jekyll:

https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/building-static-sites-with-jekyll-github-pages

  • An amazing profile in Twitter about how to make accessible images to people: https://twitter.com/PleaseCaption

arthurfilipe avatar May 10 '18 18:05 arthurfilipe

Wow, lots of good materials here! Thanks, guys! PleaseCaption is awesome ❤️

graciellehigino avatar May 10 '18 19:05 graciellehigino