In this section, you will learn about visual accessibility and visual processing issues. This section helps us understand why it is important for us to create accessible electronic documents, regardless of whether the document is intended for internal or external use. We should expect that there will be some people reading our electronic communications who need assistive technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After completing this section, you will be able to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Explain to others\/self the challenges text and still image present to individuals with visual processing issues. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Section Tasks:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Read about visual processing issues.<\/li>
Watch the video describing how a real document created accessibility issues.<\/li>
Share what you have learned with a colleague and reflect upon your understanding.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
Visual Accessibility<\/h2>\n\n\n\nStaff Development Day Agenda Viewed on an iPad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
If you’ve been around for a few years and tried to look at a Staff Development Day agenda on your iPhone or iPad, the image above may look familiar. The difficulties you have making sense of this document are identical to what a person with visual processing issues faces when trying to use a screen reader to “view” an inaccessible document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visual Processing Issues<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There are two key things to keep in mind about visual processing issues. First, they can exhibit in many different ways. Blindness is perhaps the one that comes to mind most readily, but visual processing issues include things like dyslexia, color blindness, macular degeneration, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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