Day 92: A Day of Two Presentations

Published on 02 Mar 2019

• journal
• review
• was
• law
• ms-word

Whew, what an exhausting day! After presenting two different accessibility sessions at the Alaska Library Association conference today, I'm beat. The amazing part was the active engagement from participants, and the ability to still learn something from the co-presentation I was a part of.

• Co-presented about accessible workstations in libraries, with my part focused on people with disabilities who may come into their library.
• Presented about creating Word docs and PowerPoint slides with accessibility in mind.
• Completed Deque's MS Word Accessibility course.

• U.S. law for people with disabilities
• accessible electronic content (Word and PowerPoint)

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was written in a such a way to benefit everyone. Whether born with a disability or acquired later in life, it's there to serve us all.

I knew about the Word's export to HTML feature, though I don't like it. What I didn't know is that there is another save for web option: Web Page, Filtered. This removes all that excess (ugly) code that forces formatting as inline styles. Styles are separated. I haven't given it a try yet, but will give it a try later on this week.