The Accessibility Minute

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Host: Welcome to The Accessibility Minute! I am your host, Alx Sanchez, and today we are building better documents.

Have you ever felt overwhelmed by accessibility standards? Let's simplify it. At the top are four principles that provide the foundation for web accessibility: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. This means your audience needs to be able to perceive the content, operate the interface, understand the information, and your document must be robust enough to work with assistive technologies. When you create a PDF or a Google Doc, ask yourself: Can someone see this? Can they navigate it? Does it make sense? Will it work on their software? Keep these four pillars in mind, and you have already won half the battle.

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That is your Accessibility Minute! Remember, true inclusion starts with proper structure. See you next week!

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Host: Welcome to The Accessibility Minute! I am your host Alx Sanchez, and today we are building better documents.

A picture is worth a thousand words—but only if everyone can actually perceive it! To support users relying on screen readers, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines require that all non-text content must have a text alternative that serves an equivalent purpose.

When you drop an image into a document or presentation, you must add 'alt text.' Keep it concise and describe the information it conveys. However, if your image is purely decorative or just for visual formatting, it should be implemented so that assistive technology can ignore it. Usually, you do this by applying a null (empty) alt attribute, denoted by a pair of empty quotes with no space or text inside!

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That is your Accessibility Minute! Remember, true inclusion starts with proper structure. See you next week!