ACC021: On-Air Graphics Best Practices

Robert PearsonAccessibility Officer, AMIRobert.Pearson@ami.ca

@a11ymedia January 31st, 2015 9:20am

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Learning Objectives

• Describe the three technology practices that ensure the accessibility of television for persons who may have either full or reduced vision.

• Demonstrate mastery of two techniques that provide partially sighted persons with a more inclusive television viewing experience.

• Describe a sub-set of the W3C WCAG 2.0 guidelines and how they apply to a non-web environment.

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On-Air Graphics Best Practices

• Guidelines of best practices for the presentation of on-air graphics and text on television.

• These guidelines are designed to enable people who are legally blind or low vision to maintain engagement and understanding of relevant graphic and text content presented on screen.

• These best practices are not meant to limit creativity or aesthetic variety of on-air graphics, but to provide a model for inclusive design choices.

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Table of Contents

• Size

• Contrast

• Duration

• Font

• Obscuration and Transitions

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Advisory Techniques

• Graphics and text over a patterned background or moving footage

• Perspective Changes

• Stroke/Border

• Drop Shadows

• Moving Text

• Alignment

• Font Styles for Lengthy Text

• High Luminance or Saturated Red Flashes

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Questions

• What are the television viewing preferences of a blind and partially sighted audience?

• How can we increase the effectiveness of the delivery of described video (through the presence of accessible graphics)?

• How can accessibility standards developed for the web be applied to other mediums?

• How does color contrast, font usage, spacing and other elements affect the visual message delivered to an audience with varying vision abilities?

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More Questions

• How can the delivery of accessible graphic content be of benefit to the widest possible audience?

• What metrics and key performance indicators are proposed (can be utilized) to ascertain whether the planned accessibility measure meets its objectives?

• How does new technology in TV manufacturing assist with making TV production more accessible? What challenges does it produce? (with a focus on the “new technology” being specifically of a purpose to support graphics)

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Best Practices

• On-Air Graphics Best Practices

• (Attached PDF)

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AMI Inside Example

• http://www.ami.ca/AMI-tv/Pages/AMI-Inside.aspx

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Points of Discussion

• Serif fonts?

• Death of Design?

• Captioning

• Description

• Signing

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Thank you for attending this session

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