Professional Development Day 2024: Accessibility Basics You Should Know

My presentation for Highline's 2024 Professional Development Day, covering accessibility basics when creating documents, along with a brief overview of recent Title II updates and a short (and slightly clumsy) screen reader demonstration.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:00 - Why do this?
00:03:30 - Title II
00:06:00 - Everyone's responsibility
00:09:28 - NVDA screen reader demo
00:27:27 - Alt text
00:37:04 - Headings
00:46:14 - Links
00:48:20 - Question: Does accessibility information in Word end up in a PDF?
00:51:37 - Question: Is a Google Doc better sent as a link or a Word doc?
00:54:19 - Question: In email, do links need to be bare in addition to descriptive?
00:55:51 - Question: Does email support headings?
00:56:38 - Checking accessibility
01:01:01 - About Canva
01:06:32 - PDF remediation
01:09:56 - Question: GrackleDocs flagging headers and footers?
01:11:58 - Question: How much alt text is too much?
01:15:33 - Question: Do people use AI to generate alt text?