Accessibility

[graciellehigino]

I usually say that the openess of science doesn't end at an open access paper. Sometimes we need to make things really accessible, either by translating, outreaching or even thinking about the colors that we use in our figures.

With IGNITE things are no different. We need to build our content thinking about everyone that can possibly benefit from it. I'm highly concerned about accessibility, and I suggest that, if you are going to contribute on the lessons (especially), you should pay attention to colors, words and figures.

Let's gather in this issue some resources and tips for making our material more accessible. I'll put a link to it in every issue related to the lessons.

This is a project moved by love.

Making Scientific Content More Accessible
Color Oracle - free color blindness simulator for Windows, Mac and Linux

[abbycabs]

I was talking w/ @AdrienneNepenthe about some draft work she has on accessibility in events & slides that I'm planning on incorporating into my own work.

@AdrienneNepenthe would you be able to share it here once the final version is ready?

[yochannah]

There are some notes here about accessible research software that may help, too: https://github.com/accessibleresearchsoftware/accessibleresearchsoftware/issues (and feel free to contribute any back you know of)

[graciellehigino]

Thank you so much, @acabunoc and @yochannah! ❤️

[erintripp]

This is a great resource I used this year to make presentations more accessible: https://www.diglib.org/dlf-events/2016forum/guide-to-creating-accessible-presentations/

[graciellehigino]

That's great indeed! Thank you, @erintripp ❤️

[opendigitalsafety]

I went to a conference and Alice Wong (creator of the Disability Visibility Project) and Yosmay de Mazo (who works with NPR's Story Corps) had a lot to say about the accessibility of online materials:

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2017/06/17/dvp-at-allied-media-conference-2017/

Here is the site for the Disability Visability Project:

https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/

[arthurfilipe]

Hi, Gracielle!

I'm sending someone links which I found interesting to your project:

• Manuals to dinamic and accessible presentations in Science:

http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3090000/3085564/p56-ladner.pdf?ip=200.17.113.242&id=3085564&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=344E943C9DC262BB%2E93C8E39E13025F4F%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35%2E4D4702B0C3E38B35&__acm__=1525975186_991caa1560afabdc116d4c0966cdb8f4

https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~ladner/MakingYourTalkAccessible.pdf

https://www.w3.org/WAI/training/accessible.php

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/how-to-give-a-dynamic-scientific-presentation

http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2017/01/11/scientific-presentations-a-cheat-sheet/

• Building a static website with Jekyll:

https://programminghistorian.org/lessons/building-static-sites-with-jekyll-github-pages

• An amazing profile in Twitter about how to make accessible images to people: https://twitter.com/PleaseCaption

[graciellehigino]

Wow, lots of good materials here! Thanks, guys! PleaseCaption is awesome ❤️