Accessible Documents (BFD)

Contents
Place and Time
Topics
Enrolment
Literature

SWS	2 / 2 / 0 (Lectures / Exercises / Practical Part)
Availability	Winter Term
Programme	Media Computer Science / Computer Science / Information System Technology
Subject	System-Oriented Computer Science / Software Technology / Development Methods and Tools
Modules	_{Bachelor Media Computer Science:} INF-B-530, INF-B-540 _{Master and Diploma Media Computer Science:} INF-BAS3, INF-VERT1, INF-VERT3 _{Master Media Computer Science:} INF-E-3, INF-VMI-10 _External: _{D-WW-INF-3402, D-WW-INF-3403, D-WW-INF-3411, D-WW-INF-3412, D-WW-INF-3413, INF-04-FG-SOI, INF-LE-WW, WI-BA-08, WI-MA-08-02, WI-MA-08-03, WI-MA-09-02, WI-MA-09-03}
Lecturer	Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Gerhard Weber
Contact Person	David Gollasch, M.Sc.
Enrollment	OPAL (required) from 01.10.2021

The course Accessible Documents addresses students of the computer science programmes as well as students that deal with the design of IT systems for people with special needs or who are interested in access with less or without barriers.

Blind, visually impaired, hearing impaired and deaf people, people with physical impairments, people with Dyslexia as well as elderly people require specific media and presentation forms/modalities and partially use special interaction techniques to access graphical user interfaces and the Web. The first part of this course presents these special needs and the architecture of aiding technology such as screen readers.

Current guidelines for HTML (WCAG and the German BITV) are dealt with during the second part of the course. Various test methods and tools for XHTML in this regard apply an automatic procedure.

The third part of the course shows specific document types and techniques to reduce barriers: SMIL documents, PDF for books with less barriers, SVG for graphics and MathML for mathematical expressions. Recent developments regarding the processing of documents between authors, publishers, libraries and readers frame the last part of this course.

Place and Time

WT 2021/2022

Information on the Winter Term 2021/2022.

This winter term 2021/2022, this lecture will be available in hybrid mode such that remote-only participation will likely be possible. To keep yourself up to date, please enrol to the OPAL course as soon as it is available. Further information according to the lecture schedule will be sent to you via e-mail using the announcements feature of the course.

Lectures. Our plan is to run lectures in hybrid mode as a combination of on-site lectures and live stream. Furthermore, we will provide recordings of the WT 2020/2021 lectures for on-demand access.

Exercises. The first part of the exerices will comprise the fulfillment of an online course within OPAL. The second part (regular exercises) will take place as on-site appointments. The materials will be provided containing detailed instructions to work on the tasks remotely. Additionally, we will setup a community chat to enable and motivate vital discussion.

Lectures: Tue. 5th DS 14:50-16:20 (Room for on-site lectures: APB/E001)
Exercises: Wed. 5th DS 14:50-16:20 (Room for on-site exercises: APB/E001)

WT 2020/2021

Information on the Winter Term 2020/2021. Caused by the Covid-19-based regulations, this lecture will be held online-only as long as nothing else is announced. To keep yourself up to date, please enrol to the OPAL course as soon as it is available. Further information according to the lecture schedule will be sent to you via e-mail using the announcements feature of the course.

Lectures: Tue. 5th DS 14:50-16:20, Online (First Lecture: 27.10.2020)
Exercises: Wed. 5th DS 14:50-16:20, Online (First Exercise: For the first weeks there will be a self-paced online course. Keep yourself up to date via OPAL notifications for the exercise appointments afterwards.)

WT 2019/2020

Lectures: Tue. 5th DS 14:50-16:20, APB/E001 (First Lecture: 15.10.2019)
Exercises: Wed. 5th DS 14:50-16:20, APB/E001 (First Exercise online only)

Topics

Screen Reader
Accessible Websites using CSS
Transcription of text
Manual tests using the AIS toolbar
Automatic tests using Imergo (http://www.imergo.de/home) and A Prompt
AJAX and ARIA

Enrolment

No enrolment using jExam required. To get access tot he OPAL eLearning course, please visit the first lecture.

BFD Course (OPAL) WT 2021/2022 (Enrolment available from 01.10.2021)
BFD Course (OPAL) WT 2020/2021
BFD Course (OPAL) WT 2019/2020
BFD Course (OPAL) WT 2018/2019
BFD Course (OPAL) WT 2017/2018

Literature

McCall, K. (2005) Accessible and Usable PDF Document: Techniques for Document Authors, ISBN 0-9738246-1
Clark, J. (2003) Building accessible Websites, New Riders.
Edwards, A.D.N. (1995) Extraordinary Human-Computer Interaction - Interfaces for Users with Disabilities, Cambridge University Press: New York.
Eisenberg, D. J. (2002) SVG Essentials: Producing Scalable Vector Graphics with XML, O'Reilly.
Hellbusch, J.E. (2005) Barrierefreies Webdesign, dpunkt.
Ivory, M. (2003) Automated Web Site Evaluation, Kluwer.
Sandhu, P (2003) The MathML Handbook, Charles River Media
www.w3.org/wai