Website Accessibility Presentations and Resources

Accessibility (a11y) Presentations

Spring 2026: Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries (WAPL), Going on a Digital Diet: When PDFs become the restricted ingredient (PPT)
- PDF breaking screen readers examples
  - PDF Accessibility Check with Screen Reader Demo: Beginning to 0:55 (rest of video shows all the failures in the document; ends with – needs to be send to an office for remediation or conversion to MS Word)
  - Allyant | PDF Accessibility Screen Reader Demonstration: 2:44 – 5:25 (form for submitting a complaint about a polling place accessibility concern to be submitted to the secretary of state); remediated form: 6:24 – 8:20
  - Inaccessible PDF example read with screen reader: Example 1: “Print > Save as PDF” function 1:30 – 2:02; Example 2: two column PDF with no reading order 2:04 – 2:50; Remediated PDF 2:50 – 3:40; Why use HTML (includes demonstration of “pinch to zoom”) 3:45
Winter 2026: WiscNet, Preparing for Digital ADA Compliance, Website Accessibility for Public Entities (PPT)
Fall 2025: Wisconsin Library Association (WLA), Fall 2025 Preparing for Digital ADA Compliance – Website Accessibility for Public Libraries and Librarians (PPT) and handout (DOC)
Spring 2025: Wisconsin Association of Public Libraries (WAPL), Title II ADA Accessibility and the Public Library Website (PPT) and handouts (DOC)