I’ve been reviewing videos from GOOD26, but have not managed to find the location of slides from talks. Were all/any slide decks shared?
Thanks!
Em:
No, unfortunately not. We’ve been hoping to share some of them, but have run into major issues with regards to the ‘new’ federal digital accessibility requirements. Even though they technically have been kicked back a year, we have a lot of pressure from OSU to ensure everything we post is digitally accessible. We have copies of many of the slide decks, but in doing some spot checks pretty much none of them pass the digital accessibility checkers and would require major edits.
This is going to be a challenge for a lot of entities moving forward I fear.
Thanks for the news, Alan – and you and the team have our sympathies for being placed on the cutting edge of this challenge.
It sounds as though it’s up to all of us then to learn how to craft our slides according to the accessibility requirements.
Yes, I think moving forward, it’s likely that there will be a requirement of the content creator / presenter to provide a presentation that meets accessibility checker requirements.
Note I’ve personally discovered that it’s not necessarily a trivial matter. For example, we just posted the Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR) for version 4.2 of Open OnDemand (Accessibility | Open OnDemand). I strived to ensure that document was digitally accessible.
What ended up being a significant challenge though was the fact that the Word version of the document that we edited internally passed all the Word digital accessibility checkers. However once I saved it as a PDF, it failed several PDF accessibility checkers. I was able to go through and fix all of the issues except for one warning about some element on a particular table. A colleague and I spent a significant amount of time trying to figure out what exactly was causing that final warning, but the tools aren’t specific enough to point to something precisely. We decided we think this is a spurious warning that doesn’t actually impact the accessibility and published the PDF with it intact (happy to update it if somebody wants to look at the document and sees something we missed though!)