Accessible Documents (BFD)

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	Chair Secretary
Enrollment	OPAL (required)

Winter Term 2024/2025

This lecture is replaced by Engineering accessible media and has some new content.

Winter Term 2023/2024

This winter term 2023/2024, this lecture will be available in hybrid mode such that remote-only participation will likely be possible.

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.

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

Place and Time

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)

Enrolment

BFD Course (OPAL) WT 2023/2024

Enrolment available from 01.10.2023

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Exam Registration

Please mind the regulations given by your examination office. Regarding the Computer Science Examination Office please use the online assistant for submitting your exam registration.

Online Assistant for Exam Registration

Exam

Link to the exam registration at the chair OPAL

The oral exam will take place on site.

Information about mental health

The vocational training or qualification phase during the transition from school to later working life is a crucial and sensitive period. Therefore, pay attention to your mental health, especially in challenging situations such as exam periods or approaching deadlines. As a starting point, please feel free to use our resources on mental health (Mental Health First Aid, MHFA) available in OPAL.

OPAL course on mental health

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