This is the digital recording of "Accessible Digital Content 101: Accessible Communication Techniques" by Kate Brown and Jessica Blackwood from the 2022 EDI & Indigenous Health Equity Speaker Series - Accessibility in Healthcare.
Video highlights:
Concepts and frameworks for digital accessibility
10:00 Goals for the session
15:40 Disability and post-secondary education/ STEAM
19:09 What is Disability?
25:00 Medical, social, and human rights models of disability
33:56 Definition of accessibility
35:48 Digital accessibility
36:59 What is ableism and how can it manifest in the digital environment?
41:30 Introduction of WCAG 2.0AA standards for public-facing websites
43:55 Principles of digital accessibility (POUR) framework
- Perceivable
- Operable
- Understandable
- Robust
45:53 Digital materials and adding +1 sensory modality
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Resources for reference:
AccessMac: [ Ссылка ]
Definition of disability by Ontario Human Rights Code: [ Ссылка ]
Hemingway App for accessing reading level of plain text: [ Ссылка ]
