Think Accessible!

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The slogan "Thought Accessible?" is in a thought bubble. Next to it, in blue and green shapes, the icons: Wheelchair user, crossed out eye, glasses, question mark, ear, sign language. Below the logos of HessenHub and DigiBar.

Since the beginning of 2022, the working group “Digital Accessibility Campaign”  has been working on the question of how university members can be made aware of barriers in digital media. Digital media are part of our everyday lives, but they may not be accessible and usable for everyone. “Thought Accessible?” pays attention to both: people and the digital implementation of content.

Implementing (digital) accessibility is a major undertaking. For this very reason, we would like to point out small steps that everyone can integrate into their daily work. In the following articles, barriers are clearly presented and then shown how they can be avoided or eliminated. The contributions are also adapted and available on the HessenHub Twitter channel (#DenkBarrierefrei #ThinkAccessible #DigiBar #HessenHub #AnAllesGedacht) and on this website in German.

Be part of “Thought Accessible?”!

Spread the content on your social media channels and give the topic more visibility. Help us to improve the situation at our universities sustainably!

Do you want to do more? Then take an active approach to the topic!

We are looking for fellow contributors (especially universities involved in HessenHub) to write further articles. Please feel free to contact us with suggestions for topics or other ideas.

Contact

Sanja Grimminger
grimminger@sd.uni-frankfurt.de

Posts of the campaign

Post 1: Color Vision Deficiency

This topic is about the contrast of text. There are 5 different graduation of gray with a white background, that go straight with more darkness from light gray to black. In the 3 most lightest hues it says "insufficient contrast", in dark grey it says "sufficient for large text" and in black it says "very good contrast".

Post 2: Contrast

Post 3: Font

Embedded in the campaign design with the speech bubble ‘Thought Accessible?’ the central question of ‘By which alternative text do we think accessible’ is raised to the wave form of a speech output. Not correct are the options ‘Without alternative text‘ and ‘Filename_no_extra_benefit.Filename_extension‘. Correct is the option ‘Depiction of a speech output in wave form‘

Post 4: Alternative texts

Embedded in the design of the campaign, with the speech bubble "Thought Accessible?", is a drawn person with many arms. In them she holds various sheets of paper, a clock, the structural formula of a molecule and the words stressed, overloaded and powerless.

Post 5: Psychological Stress

Embedded in the design of the campaign, with the speech bubble "Thought Accessible?", a video is shown in which a female and a male person speak. There is no sound. Under the video is the text: User 1: Do you understand what they're saying? User 2: Hm... Nah, no idea...". A text box then appears in the video with the words: Subtitles help!

Post 6: Subtitles