Assistive Technology
This is a commonly known screen reader.
What is JAWS, NVDA, Microsoft Narrator, Window-Eyes or Voice Over?
This digital accessibility feature is often used in crowded or loud environments.
What is captioning?
This is the year that Minnesota implemented a statute requiring all state agencies to adhere to standards for accessibility developed by the State Chief Information Officer.
What is 2009?
This is the title of the person who leads digital accessibility work within a Minnesota state agency.
What is a digital accessibility coordinator or DAC?
This is one way to make a video accessible.
What is adding captions or providing audio descriptions?
This is a common speech-to-text technology.
What is Dragon Naturally Speaking software, Alexa, or Siri?
This is one resource where you can learn about how to make my website, documents, and applications digitally accessible.
What is Google, YouTube, DHS courses on TrainLink, LinkedIn Learning, Microsoft Office Accessibility Checker, and many more?
This company currently has a case pending with the Supreme Court over the accessibility of their website.
Who is Domino's?
Answer: 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?
This keyboard shortcut allows you to move forward to the next open program or document on your computer’s task bar.
What is Alt + Tab?
This accessibility exercise challenges users to only use keyboard shortcuts to complete tasks.
What is the No-Mouse Challenge?
This is one program or software commonly used by DHS that is not digitally accessible.
What is SharePoint or Tableau?
This component of the Minnesota Accessibility standard is part of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
What is Section 508?
Providing captioning for live events, the acronym CART is short for this.
What is Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART).
This is one way to test the accessibility of your website or document.
What is running the Accessibility Checker in common Microsoft Office programs (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, etc), copying a website into a website accessibility checker online, or the keyboard test (tabbing (website only), headings, hyperlinks)?
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 twice, most recently to include 17 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)?
This is how you create tables in in a PDF with headers that read correctly for screen readers.
What is using Table Data (TD) and Table Headers (TH)?