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Tag: Accessibility

Screenshot from BBC website. Editorial Guidelines. Guidance: Visually impaired and hearing impaired audiences
May 29, 2023
Best practices

Going beyond the guidelines to make your news more accessible

A conversation with Ab11y’s Charlie Turrell and Gareth Ford Williams.

A screenshot of the Washington Post's Accessibility Checklist. The first listed item is Screen reader & keyboard controls.
May 23, 2023
Best practices

Tools and tips to make your news site accessible

There are some good places to start, even if not everything works for you.

Ritika Managuli (right), a youth producer with RadioActive Youth Media at KUOW Public Radio, practices interviewing skills at Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington on July 10, 2019. Credit: Kelsey Kupferer
December 7, 2022
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How to build a youth journalism program that benefits your newsroom

Six considerations for youth media program development.

December 20, 2021
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Three disability questions every editor should ask

Accessible editing practices elevate disabled voices, eliminates ableism and makes journalism more accurate.

Alt text: A screenshot of the Twitter alt-text editor. Hannah is using dark mode, so the editor appears on a black background. The heading reads “Write alt-text.” And it is above an image with the following alt-text description written beneath: Forest green crocheted fabric with a pink crochet hook sits on Hannah’s lap in the airplane. She’s in a Southwest plane and the red and white safety card can be seen poking out of the blue seat pocket in front of her.”
October 14, 2021
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Alt-text is journalism: Enhancing your reporting with accessibility

Learning to write alt-text can deepen your reporting and improve how you tell stories online.

A tweet from Kent C. Dodds using special characters to demonstrate how inaccessible this style of Twitter meme is to people who use screen readers or assistive technology. The tweet reads: “You this it's cute to write your tweets and usernames this way. But have you listened to what it sounds like with assistive technologies like VoiceOver?”
October 7, 2021
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Digital accessibility is a cultural shift newsrooms need now

You don’t need to be an engineer or web developer to make your work accessible to disabled audiences.

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