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Day 12 - Audio Description (Prerecorded)

I'll be honest: before researching this post, audio description was the accessibility standard I knew the least about. I understood captions for deaf users - that's straightforward. But audio description? I knew it existed, but had never actually implemented it or really understood when it was necessary.

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Day 10 - Non-text Content

If you know anything about web accessibility, you probably know about alt text. It's the most widely recognized accessibility technique - that little text description you add to images so screen readers can announce what the image shows. But there's more to non-text content accessibility than just slapping some alt text on every image and calling it done.

Let's dig into what you might not know about making images, icons, charts, and other non-text content accessible.

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Witness.org: Using Video to Document and Tell Stories

Witness.org is a Brooklyn-based non-profit that “…makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to use video and technology to protect and defend human rights.” Throughout the world, they have found many citizen journalists are “using video to document and tell stories…[but] are not filming safely or effectively.” Witness provides training and technology to use video as a vehicle to “protect and defend human rights” and to “create positive change in [their] communities.”  

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