{"id":421,"date":"2019-01-11T08:43:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T08:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/?page_id=421"},"modified":"2019-01-11T08:43:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T08:43:50","slug":"teaching-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/teaching-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-page pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div><p>Accessibility is not just something we do for our students but also what we teach our students.<\/p>\n<p>Accessibility is an important part of all document design. Creating accessibility\u00a0documents for users across the ability section aligns with the core principles of professional writing, which means it should have a place in our classrooms. The following list is not exhaustive but meant to help you consider how you can incorporate accessibility into the classroom as part of effective\u00a0practices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Teach students to use style headings on digital composition projects (an example of wording from an assignment description: \u201cTag your title and headings in your text. To do this in MS Word, use the Styles menu to mark up the title, headings, captions, body text, etc.)<\/li>\n<li>Teach students to use alt text and\/or descriptive text of images attached to projects<\/li>\n<li>Teach students to use descriptive labels for links on digital projects and emails<\/li>\n<li>Teach students to add closed captioning to video projects<\/li>\n<li>Teach students to consider the color contrast within documents, slides, and graphs<\/li>\n<li>Teach students to use elements beyond color to denote information lines in graphs and charts<\/li>\n<li>Teach students to use verbal descriptions of their images during presentations<\/li>\n<li>Teach students to face their audience when speaking<\/li>\n<li>Teach students to consider how they are asking their audience to access the information- are they assuming their audience can use their ears, eyes, and hands \u2013 their bodies -in a specific way? Teach students to ask: What are the functional demands of my design?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accessibility is not just something we do for our students but also what we teach our students. Accessibility is an important part of all document&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/teaching-accessibility\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Teaching Accessibility<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-421","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":423,"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/421\/revisions\/423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeprofessionally.org\/accessibility\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}