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SAG Award - Teach Access Study Away Silicon Valley Student Reflection

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SAG Award - Teach Access Study Away Silicon Valley Student Reflection

Author(s)

Hite, Kathryn

Description

We had the opportunity to hear from six different industry giants and connect with each one of their accessibility offices through the Teach Access Study Away program. The chance to learn how each company capitalizes on its particular opportunity was exciting. For example, we never knew how a visual art company like Adobe could make their products accessible to someone with a visual impairment. In this case, we got the opportunity to talk to Rob Haverty, the PM from Document Cloud, who cares deeply about making PDFs accessible and worked with Microsoft to allow accessible Word documents. His workshop in making accessible documents through Word and Acrobat was completely new and contextualized how people with visual impairments interact with digital documents. Not only did we gain the skills to create our own accessible documents, but we learned about design principles for accessible digital interfaces.

Date Published

2018-08-24

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  • Download SAG+Award+Reflection+-+Hite.pdf
  • Download SAG+Award+Report+-+Hite.pdf

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In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

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An undergraduate engineering institution exploring innovative approaches to engineering education since its founding in 1997.

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