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From: Jim Byrne Accessible Web Design
Date: Thu, Jul 22 2021 10:45AM
Subject: Making offline Magazines accessible?
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Hi,

I've just been asked if I would speak to a publisher about making their offline magazines accessible. I know about document accessibility - but the word ‘magazine' makes me think they will have a level of graphical layout and visual branding that would make them gag if gave them basic document accessibility advice.

Does anyone have experience in this area they can pass on to me? Or can you point me to resources that I can use to read up on it? It would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim







About Jim Byrne
With over two decades of experience Jim Byrne is one of the UK's most experienced practitioners in the area of accessible web design. Jim provided feedback during the development of WCAG 2 as part of the Guild of Accessible Website Designers. He is the author of a number of technical books, training courses and accessibility guides. Jim was a winner of the equal access category of the Global Bangemann Challenge.

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From: glen walker
Date: Thu, Jul 22 2021 11:21AM
Subject: Re: Making offline Magazines accessible?
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What's an "offline magazine"? Is it just a PDF? Even with graphical
layout and visual branding, a PDF can still be accessible. Two big areas
that I'm sure you're aware of is "semantic" tagging (the magazine should
have headings, lists, tables, etc properly tagged) and reading order. With
some magazines, it's sometimes hard to follow the visual reading order
because things are sometimes sporadically laid out. If you can tell what
the reading order should be visually, then that same order should be
implemented in the tagging tree. If it's not obvious what the reading
order is, then you just have to do your best and pick an order.

So I think you can talk to the magazine people about those two simple
concepts and then add on info about color contrast and alt text.

From: Ann L. Wiley Consultants Inc.
Date: Thu, Jul 22 2021 11:27AM
Subject: Re: Making offline Magazines accessible?
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I would welcome discussion of how to ensure documents of this kind are tagged correctly. This work seems to be very time consuming.

Thank you,

Ann

Ann L. Wiley Ph.D.
Ann L. Wiley Consultants Inc.
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What's an "offline magazine"? Is it just a PDF? Even with graphical layout and visual branding, a PDF can still be accessible. Two big areas that I'm sure you're aware of is "semantic" tagging (the magazine should have headings, lists, tables, etc properly tagged) and reading order. With some magazines, it's sometimes hard to follow the visual reading order because things are sometimes sporadically laid out. If you can tell what the reading order should be visually, then that same order should be implemented in the tagging tree. If it's not obvious what the reading order is, then you just have to do your best and pick an order.

So I think you can talk to the magazine people about those two simple concepts and then add on info about color contrast and alt text.

From: Hayman, Douglass
Date: Thu, Jul 22 2021 11:38AM
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] - Making offline Magazines accessible?
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Jim,

I've seen a few flavors of these, if we're talking about the same thing and ones I've seen show a two page spread on the screen with controls to zoom in/out or advance pages. They have the ability to save as pdf but the pdfs I've seen are pretty poor in regards to tags.

Case in point:

https://issuu.com/universityofkentucky/docs/18-09058_merit_weekend_program_2019

Picking download it provides an untagged PDF file.

Using Acrobat Pro and running the autotag document the images have no ALT tags so that would need to be manually done.

Some of the tables it got right, others it did weird divisions so one would need to use the table editor to fix those.

Arrowing down the tags tree some parts have logical reading order, others are not and would need to be fixed.

So if their default/only download format is PDF, then they'd need to study up on all that is involved in making an accessible PDF file.

Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
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Hi,

I've just been asked if I would speak to a publisher about making their offline magazines accessible. I know about document accessibility - but the word ‘magazine' makes me think they will have a level of graphical layout and visual branding that would make them gag if gave them basic document accessibility advice.

Does anyone have experience in this area they can pass on to me? Or can you point me to resources that I can use to read up on it? It would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim







About Jim Byrne
With over two decades of experience Jim Byrne is one of the UK's most experienced practitioners in the area of accessible web design. Jim provided feedback during the development of WCAG 2 as part of the Guild of Accessible Website Designers. He is the author of a number of technical books, training courses and accessibility guides. Jim was a winner of the equal access category of the Global Bangemann Challenge.

Jim Byrne: Specialist in Accessible Website Design.

Web: http://www.jimbyrne.co.uk

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jimbyrnewebdev

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thirdsectorwebsitedevelopment

From: Jim Byrne Accessible Web Design
Date: Thu, Jul 22 2021 11:38AM
Subject: Re: Making offline Magazines accessible?
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No, I mean a paper based magazine. Olde-worlde stuff. :-)

All the best,
Jim

> On 22 Jul 2021, at 18:21, glen walker < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
>
> What's an "offline magazine"? Is it just a PDF? Even with graphical
> layout and visual branding, a PDF can still be accessible. Two big areas
> that I'm sure you're aware of is "semantic" tagging (the magazine should
> have headings, lists, tables, etc properly tagged) and reading order. With
> some magazines, it's sometimes hard to follow the visual reading order
> because things are sometimes sporadically laid out. If you can tell what
> the reading order should be visually, then that same order should be
> implemented in the tagging tree. If it's not obvious what the reading
> order is, then you just have to do your best and pick an order.
>
> So I think you can talk to the magazine people about those two simple
> concepts and then add on info about color contrast and alt text.
> > > > About Jim Byrne
With over two decades of experience Jim Byrne is one of the UK's most experienced practitioners in the area of accessible web design. Jim provided feedback during the development of WCAG 2 as part of the Guild of Accessible Website Designers. He is the author of a number of technical books, training courses and accessibility guides. Jim was a winner of the equal access category of the Global Bangemann Challenge.

Jim Byrne: Specialist in Accessible Website Design.

Web: http://www.jimbyrne.co.uk

Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jimbyrnewebdev

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thirdsectorwebsitedevelopment

From: Colleen Gratzer
Date: Fri, Jul 23 2021 1:39PM
Subject: Re: Making offline Magazines accessible?
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Hi, Jim.

I would adhere to the contrast guidelines and make sure color isn't
being used to convey meaning.

I would also incorporate good design and usability practices (if not
done already) such as sufficient use of white space, space between
sections (above headings), appropriate typefaces and text size for the
audience.

There are steps that could be taken beyond this such as using certain
typefaces and combinations of colors for an audience of people with
dyslexia, for example, and avoiding saturated reds, which can affect
people who have suffered a traumatic brain injury.


Colleen Gratzer, Creative Boost
- Host of the Design Domination podcast
- Mentor to designers
- Accessibility course instructor
creative-boost.com


On 7/22/21 1:38 PM, Jim Byrne Accessible Web Design wrote:
> No, I mean a paper based magazine. Olde-worlde stuff. :-)
>
> All the best,
> Jim