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ryanpitts
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8 years ago Journalism accepting this session.
[ ID ] ead18f07-4fcb-41d6-baa3-87ae84bcd3c7
[ Submitter's Name ] Joanna Kao [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Financial Times [ Submitter's Twitter ] @joannaskao
[ Space ] journalism [ Secondary Space ] digital
[ Format ] learning-lab, fireside, hands-on
Description
Readers are increasingly interacting with news content from a variety of locations, environments and levels of ability. As a result, news organizations need to think about creating platforms and stories that readers can access in as many ways as possible. Using examples from live theater, sports and education, this session will discuss best practices for web accessibility, graphics, closed captioning, and social media and facilitate a discussion about what news organizations are doing and how we can improve as an industry.
Agenda
For the session, I will prepare a quick intro of what accessibility is, what it means and who it affects. I will also go through examples of how accessibility is seen and treated in other industries and how it can translate to journalism. Depending on the size of the group, we will break into smaller groups to tackle specific issues in journalism — e.g. How can we provide closed captioning and transcripts on quick turnaround deadlines? How can we make our images more accessible on Twitter and Instagram? How can we make our websites quicker and less expensive for people to load around the world? If a hands-on workshop is more suitable for this session, I can prepare a number of hands-on exercises for making web development/graphics, social media posts and audience engagement call-outs more accessible.
Participants
We can break up into more groups with more participants. I can be flexible so that every group has ample time to share about their discussions.
Outcome
I hope people will leave thinking about ways to make their own work more accessible. For example, I hope people who create custom graphics will consider accessibility in their design process, and those who work on product teams can go home with tips for creating an overall more accessible news site. At the very least, I think people will leave having a better understanding of how different people consume information, what accessibility means and why it is important for the news industry. Participants will leave with a tip sheet they can bring back to their respective news organizations with ideas they can implement immediately.