Assistive Technology
This is a commonly known screen reader.
What is JAWS, NVDA, Voice Over?
This digital accessibility feature is often used in crowded or loud environments and is required for videos.
What is captioning?
This is the year that all state agencies were required to adhere to standards for web content accessibility.
What is 2018? (Section 508 Final Rule, US Access Board, January 2017)
The person leading the State of Connecticut into digital accessibility so that everyone can access and interact with online content from CT agencies?
Who is Governor Lamont?
This is one way to make a video accessible.
What is adding captions or providing audio descriptions?
These are common speech-to-text technologies.
What are Dragon Naturally Speaking software, Alexa, and Siri?
This company or brand currently has a case pending with a US Court over the accessibility of their website.
Who is Domino's, Beyonce, Barnes & Noble, Nike, Hasbro, or Fox News Network?
The design and composition of an environment so that it can be accessed, understood and used to the greatest extent possible by all people regardless of their age, size, ability, or disability.
What is Universal Design?
One way to automatically test the accessibility of a Microsoft document?
What is use the included Accessibility Checker?
This accessibility exercise challenges users to only use keyboard shortcuts to complete tasks.
What is the No-Mouse Challenge?
This is the location of the Digital Accessibility training calendar.
What is DAS Accessibility Hub on Teams?
This final rule requires that all CT agencies and entities that receive federal funding, such as universities, meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA standards for digital accessibility by April, 2026.
What is the 2024 Final Rule to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Providing captioning for live events, the acronym CART is short for this.
What is Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART).
This is one way to make content in PowerPoint accessible to users who are color blind.
Use a color contrast checker and make sure the colors used meet the required contrast ratio.
This helps people who are blind or visually impaired access the content on their computer screen that is NOT a screen reader.
What is a braille display or screen enlargement program?
This ratio ensures there is enough difference to separate foreground from background in text and images of text.
What is the color contrast ratio (4.5:1; 3:1 for large text)?
This device that you use every day was created in the 1800’s as an accessibility solution for people with disabilities.
What is the keyboard/typewriter (the typewriter was invented in 1808 by Pellegrino Turri so that his blind lover, Countess Carolina Fantoni, could send him love letters without the need for her to dictate to a scribe) or the telephone (in 1874 Alexander Graham Bell created a device called a phonoautograph that allowed deaf students to see the vibrations of a sound etched onto smoked glass which lead to the telephone).
The numeronym for accessibility.
What is A11Y (there are 11 letters between A and Y in "accessibility")?
These are three ways to make your PowerPoint digitally accessible.
What is adding alt text to images, no duplicate slide titles, captions for videos, use simple (not complex) tables, check table header row, check reading order, name hyperlinks appropriately, appropriate color contrast, fill in document properties, or use content placeholders (not text boxes)?
These are three forms of assistive technology that help someone with motor or dexterity issues navigate a computer or mobile device.
What is a mouth stick, head wand, single switch access, sip and puff switch, oversized trackball mouse, adaptive keyboard, eye tracking, or voice recognition software (Siri, Alexa, Dragon)?
What started as an accessibility solution in 1877 become a 2.5 billion dollar industry in 2017.
What is the audiobook (talking books were one of the first applications of the phonograph when it was invented in 1877, the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) in the UK began producing long-play records of novels in the 1920’s and talking books were distributed widely in the US to veterans wounded in WWI during the 1930’s)?
This original set of guidelines first posted in 1999, has since been updated three times, most recently to include 9 new criteria.
What is the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)?
This term refers to all computing and communications hardware and software, the activities undertaken to secure that hardware and software, and the activities undertaken to acquire, transport, process, analyze, store, and disseminate information electronically.
What is ICT (Information communications technology)?
Something that you can do to make tables accessible.
What is use <th> for table headers, avoid merged cells and empty cells, and give tables a unique table name?