The Accessibility Challenge, You Can Do It! (with Jessamyn West)

03/05/2021 42 min Temporada 3 Episodio 18

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Episode Synopsis

This week Michelle is lucky enough to be chatting with one of the best people on the Internet (and real life, too) - Jessamyn West. Jessamyn is a library person in Vermont who speaks a lot about how to better serve rural communities. She's bringing to the Library Land Loves table her top five tips on how to be more accessible to your communities. Her tips are quick and easy and likely don't even require help from your IT department! 
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Find details on OLITA's Digital Odyssey conference on accessibility here: https://accessola.com/events/digital-odyssey/

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Blind vs Legally Blind
Showing Twitter's Alt Text requires two things
1. Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey (depending on your browser)  add-on
2. the script to Show Twitter Image Alt Text

Live captions on Zoom

Live Captions on Google Meet

YouTube Creator Academy on captioning


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Speech to text/dictation on phones
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