Accessibility Solutions:
As people experience web content differently, it is vital that everyone, including those with disabilities, can understand the content as intended. Accessible web content also includes emails and documents shared digitally, such as PDFs.
Accessibility is a must for legal compliance. It also helps improve the user experience, connects you with more customers, and builds trust and credibility.
Document Accessibility:
LearningMate provides document accessibility solutions for designing and structuring accessible documents for effective use by people with disabilities. These documents are created to be as readable by a sighted reader as they would be by a low-vision or non-sighted reader.
Different forms of document accessibility include:
- Word Document Accessibility: Involves converting Word to PDFs to allow the screen reader to read the document entirely and correctly.
- PDF Accessibility: Includes reading orders, verifying heads, TOC, tagged or untagged PDFs
- PowerPoint Accessibility: Includes providing alt-text for images/graphs, etc. through SPACE
Web Accessibility:
LearningMate’s web accessibility solutions ensure that everyone can access your website and mobile apps regardless of barriers, i.e., making sure you haven’t excluded people with visual, hearing, motor, or cognitive impairments from your content.
There is a huge market for web accessibility, and it is no longer limited to publishers:
- Auditing
- Marketing websites
- Automotive industry
- Interactivities for education publishers such as eBooks and PDFs
Media Accessibility:
LearningMate’s media accessibility solutions are aimed at making the following content types accessible.
- Interactive Digital Media – HTML5, audio, video, simulations, apps
- Accessibility for audio/video files – audio descriptions and screen captions
- Descriptive Transcripts
- WebVTT file – Track to the video
- Start and end of dialogues
- Read aloud screen readers
- SmartDub – Localization, multilingual
How We Can Help
SPACE: LearningMate’s Accessibility Conversion & Authoring Tool.
SPACE is a platform to convert input documents such as XML, PDF, PPT, and Word documents into an accessible format and ingest alt-text into all images and math-type components in the document. It also ensures the validation of converted documents against WCAG guidelines. SPACE automatically generates alt-text for math-type equations on its own, while for certain images, it automatically uses additional machine learning to generate alt-text. In addition, SPACE has an alt-text writer and QC Interface, which helps review the quality of the alt-text.
Features:
SPACE auto-generates alt-text to help people who can’t see the screen understand what’s important in images and other visuals and make the content accessible. Its other features include:
- Built-in workflow for alt-text writing and quality control process
- Support for various input file formats such as Word, PPT, and XML
- Ability to reuse image descriptions from the repository
- An algorithm in place to identify image complexity, such as images with graphs or charts
- Categorization and filtering that uses the text classification approach to classify web pages into desirable and undesirable ones
- Comment sharing between users
- Option to view all images with the corresponding alt-text in the list view
- Ability to view the reference document
- Option for comparing documents
- Connectors to an ML training model for analysis and prediction
LearningMate’s accessibility solutions are not limited to just alt-text writing. They also include:
Remediation:
Website, as well as client product remediation. In the digital world, websites are considered successfully remediated only when they meet all of the standards under WCAG.
Auditing & Testing:
A QA process involving a thorough review of accessibility that provides full coverage and consists of a combination of automated and manual testing done by accessibility experts.
Conversion:
A part of the production process and includes the conversion of documents into appropriate formats in line with accessibility requirements.
Video Transcripts & Captioning:
To make video content accessible to everyone, including people who are unable to view the video due to accessibility problems or technical limitations.
Assistive Technology:
Advanced software and hardware solutions, including screen readers and screen magnification software.
Remediation:
Website, as well as client product remediation. In the digital world, websites are considered successfully remediated only when they meet all of the standards under WCAG.
What LearningMate Can Do for You
We can help you comply with WCAG 2.0/2.1 guidelines and ever-evolving industry best practices to ensure compliance and provide equal access to information for everyone. We deliver results through a combination of SMEs, processes, and technology.
Our Services
- Consulting: Priorities, processes, standards, tech adoption
- Audits: Manual/automated testing for WCAG 2.1 compliance
- Remediation: Retrofitting existing products for accessibility
- Design: Creating new accessible templates and products
- Alternative text: Writing screen reader descriptions for images
- Video Adaption: Captioning, audio descriptions, transcripts
Our Tech Resources Are Experts in Their Fields
- For document accessibility, our team members have a good understanding of WCAG 20.0/2.1 guidelines, MS Office Automation — C#, VB>NET, Adobe Automation — PDF and InDesign, JavaScript, and XML.
- For web accessibility, our experts are well-versed in HTML5, JavaScript, Web Scraping/Crawling, and CSS Scripting.