user-created content: maintaining accessibility & usability when we don't control the...

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User-Created Content

Maintaining accessibility & usability when we don't control the content

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Introduction

Make the right thing happen automatically

Teach the user as they create

Help the users do the right thing

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What Not to Do

http://wave.webaim.org/

“FooBar” authoring tool

<$foobarAssetDescription$>

Interface only sometimes prompts for alt

Unclear field labels Biggest text box not always useful Alt should be context-sensitive Prepopulation is confusing Alt should be descriptive text or alt="", never filename

No help!

“Xyzzy” authoring tool

caption

caption

Alt text

Alt and caption are identical Human factor: visual result will be

unappealing to site’s usersbase

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Help your users

Dreamwidth

Only two fields.

Inline help

Link to more information

Know your users

How many options can they tolerate? Are you enforcing or encouraging? What kind of education can you do? Do they already care about accessibility? What visual effect is acceptable to your

users? What level of hand coding can they do?

{Accessible embeds and styles

Silent Helping

Deborah Kaplan@deborah_guhttp://deborah.dreamwidth.org/

Further thoughts: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/atag.php Comparing Learning Management

Systems: http://weba.im/csun2013lms Web Accessibility for the 21st century:

https://github.com/rahaeli/accessibility

Questions?