IT Accessibility Curriculum and Resources

Creating Accessible Images
and Visual Elements

Contents

• Lesson Plan — HTML version of Lesson Plan
  (includes link to the Microsoft Word® version of the document).

• Microsoft® PowerPoint Presentation — Requires the PowerPoint program.
  Braillable text description of PowerPoint slide show.

• Associated Web Pages:

  • Madame Sylvia's Skin Cream — This page is used to reveal some of the basics on making images accessible.
  • I Always Take Off Into the Wind — Example of LONGDESC attribute of the IMG element, plus a technique that performs the same function for users of older screen readers.
  • Berry, Berry, Goode LLC. — How to use images for navigation, plus an example of redundant text links.
  • Not-So-Common Visitors to the Northeast Feeder — Illustrates another way of providing an enhanced description of an image.
  • Braillable text description + HTML Code from all associated web pages

• Quiz and Quiz Answers
  NOTE: A Braillable text version of the compiled set of all quizzes and answers is included in the Resources section of this CD.

• Comments and Examples — For NYS Mandatory Technology Standard S04-001 Standard 1, Text Equivalent for Non-text Content

• Resources — Web based references everyone can use.