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From: Pamela Riesmeyer
Date: Jul 7, 2014 9:13PM

Happy to contribute, Cliff.

I've been thinking lately, that a great way to encourage people to
incorporate accessibility into the process of creating anything with a
digital output (app, web page, document, etc.), is to reach out to those
who teach and to those who write/publish textbooks that the teachers use -
or, in this case, create the tutorials.

If the book or tutorial demonstrates that in order to insert an image into
a document, for instance, you follow a set of steps that includes adding
alternate text... then I suspect that will be the method that students will
learn.. for generations to come. This, rather than adding a page or two on
accessibility and asking the document creator to go back and add the alt
text or go back and add the headings, etc. Many people, in my experience
never "go back".

It's convincing the publishers and authors that this would be a good thing!
And the more people they hear it from, the more likely, I think, they are
to consider it.

Thanks,
Pam




On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Cliff Tyllick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> I have not tried lynda.com's accessibility courses, but I have been quite
> satisfied with the quality of other courses they offer. Friends of mine who
> have subscribed to their training courses have been even more satisfied.
>
> Pamela, thanks for the idea about contacting them. I have some ideas for
> the Office courses and will follow up. Good to know they're receptive—makes
> sense; their courses are consistent with people who care deeply about the
> user experience.
>
> Cliff Tyllick
> AT&T Corporate Accessibility Technology Office
> @clifftyll on Twitter
>
>
>
> On Monday, July 7, 2014 8:37 AM, Pamela Riesmeyer <
> <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>
>
> I have to agree with Elizabeth Pyatt. I also use and recommend Lynda.com.
>
> One of the things that I like about some of their tutorials is that they
> are incorporating accessibility within the training, so that it's seamless,
> which to me is important in the long term. In the WordPress tutorial, for
> instance, that Morten Rand-Hendriksen does, he builds accessibility into
> the process of adding images, etc.
>
> I have talked with them about adding information about creating accessible
> documents to their tutorials on Microsoft Office applications and they have
> been receptive to the conversation. They're approachable and I think that's
> going to be what helps us get to a place where accessibility is a given,
> not an add-on.
> Thanks,
> Pam
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Elizabeth J. Pyatt < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> > I am familiar with the Lynda.com accessibility tutorials and generally
> > recommend them.
> >
> > One is "Web Accessibility Principles" by Soe Gillenwater which is a few
> > years old. The basic concepts it's teaching are sound, but it assumes
> > Section 508 and that you're working working with Dreamweaver. However I
> > think most code lessons can be applied elsewhere.
> >
> > I also recommend their "Creating Accessible PDFs" as it covers the
> how-tos
> > for a lot of common scenarios. It's by Chad Chelius who is an Adobe
> > Certified Instructor.
> >
> > In general Lynda.com is starting to incorporate accessibility in many of
> > their other tutorials such as Flash, Acrobat, icon fonts and other
> topics.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Elizabeth
> >
> > P.S. There is the course "Improving SEO Using Accessibility Techniques"
> > which also has some useful information but is much shorter than the
> others.
> > IMO though the title is a little off-putting (although well-implemanted
> > accessibility really does improve SEO).
> >
> > On Jul 6, 2014, at 2:00 PM, <EMAIL REMOVED> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Greg Wocher < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > > Subject: [WebAIM] Question about lynda.com
> > > Date: July 6, 2014 12:32:05 PM EDT
> > > To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > > Reply-To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > > I was doing some google searches yesterday looking up various web
> > accessibility topics and came across lynda.com. It is a tutorial
> website.
> > They have courses on quite a few topics. I happen to notice they seem to
> > have some tutorials on web accessibility. I was wondering if anyone has
> > ever taken a look at this website? I also see it as one of the sponsors
> for
> > the various TWIT shows.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Greg Wocher
> > >
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> > > > > > > >
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>
> Pamela Riesmeyer
> Web Accessibility Coordinator
> Purdue University Calumet
> Office: 219-989-2731
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Pamela Riesmeyer
Web Accessibility Coordinator
Purdue University Calumet
Office: 219-989-2731
Mobile: 219-730-2751
SKYPE: pamela.riesmeyer
Email: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Web Site: http://webs.purduecal.edu/webaccessibility
<http://webs.purduecal.edu/webaccessibility>;