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  1.    The Accessible Marketing Guide

    The Accessible Marketing Guide

    A comprehensive guide to making your marketing activity and communications accessible to the widest number of people. This version was updated in 2020 by Grace McDonagh, Marketing Officer, Artsadmin in partnership with AMAculturehive, with support from the Unlimited, Artsadmin and Shape Arts teams. The guide is available in PDF, print, large print, audio and Easy Read formats.

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  2.    Inclusive Design and Website Accessibility

    Inclusive Design and Website Accessibility

    Disability isn't just about accessibility. Disability in advertising is about IDEAS: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Sustainability. Joshua Bernard Zachary Loebner, Clemson University PhD candidate, Director of Strategy Designsensory and Adweek contributing writer explores advertising, inclusive design strategies, marketing, communications and disability, diversity, equity and inclusion.

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  3.    What is NVDA?

    What is NVDA?

    A brief overview of some of the things NVDA can do. The video demonstrates the screen reader at work in several programs and using different synthesizers (including the commercial Code Factory Eloquence add-on)

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  4.    What is Audio Description?

    What is Audio Description?

    If you're struggling to see your favourite television programmes or movies, then Audio Description (AD) may be for you. AD is commentary that describes body language, expressions and movements, making the programme clear through sound.

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  5.    Accessibility in Email Marketing

    Accessibility in Email Marketing

    Accessibility is a term often used in web design, but what does it mean for email marketing? It comes down to simple changes you can make in your content to remove barriers for people with disabilities.

    In this article, you'll learn best practices for making your content accessible and usable for all recipients.

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  6.    ITV and Aldi launch a signed ad break during Deaf Awareness Week to raise awareness of deafness and hearing loss

    ITV and Aldi launch a signed ad break during Deaf Awareness Week to raise awareness of deafness and hearing loss

    Aldi has partnered with ITV to broadcast its first ever fully signed ad break during Coronation Street on Monday 14th May with all adverts to be signed to mark the start of Deaf Awareness Week (May 14th-20th 2018).

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  7.    Study: Visually Impaired Adults Tune-In To Television Almost As Much As General Public

    Study: Visually Impaired Adults Tune-In To Television Almost As Much As General Public

    Survey from Comcast and the American Foundation for the Blind Gauges TV-Watching Behaviors and Awareness of Accessible Technologies.

    Comcast and the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) today released a survey of people with visual disabilities showing that a majority watch four or more hours per day – almost as much as the general public. Many of those surveyed report that today’s assistive technologies like video description, text-to-speech and voice control are helpful as they watch TV; however, those tools still suffer from low levels of awareness, according to the study.

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  8.    Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide

    Alt-texts: The Ultimate Guide

    This post contains everything you need to know about alt-texts! When to use them and how to perfectly craft them. By me, Daniel, a web developer with vision impairment who use a screen reader in my day-to-day life.

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  9.    The Click-Away Pound Report 2016

    The Click-Away Pound Report 2016

    In the UK in 2016, around 6.1 million internet users have impairments that affect the way they use the Internet. Those 6.1 million people will spend £16.55 billion online this year. The Survey shows that over 80% of these customers will spend their money not necessarily on the website that offers the cheapest products, but where fewest barriers are placed in their way. In fact, 71% of these customers will click away from websites that do not cater for their access needs.

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  10.    Video Captions Benefit Everyone

    Video Captions Benefit Everyone

    Video captions, also known as same-language subtitles, benefit everyone who watches videos
    (children, adolescents, college students, and adults). More than 100 empirical studies document
    that captioning a video improves comprehension of, attention to, and memory for the video.
    Captions are particularly beneficial for persons watching videos in their non-native language, for
    children and adults learning to read, and for persons who are D/deaf or hard of hearing. However,
    despite U.S. laws, which require captioning in most workplace and educational contexts, many
    video audiences and video creators are naïve about the legal mandate to caption, much less the
    empirical benefit of captions.

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  11.    Enhancing television advertising: Same-language subtitles can improve brand recall, verbal memory, and behavioral intent

    Enhancing television advertising: Same-language subtitles can improve brand recall, verbal memory, and behavioral intent

    This research explores how same-language subtitles—on-screen text that matches the spoken language—can enhance advertising effectiveness for television commercials on normal viewing audiences outside of foreign-language or deaf-viewer contexts. A preliminary eye-tracker study shows that same-language subtitles capture disproportionate visual attention, and a first study highlights that same-language commercial subtitles can increase brand recall and memory of other verbal ad information. Three further studies using 12 additional ads reinforce the positive effects of subtitles and show how same-language subtitle effectiveness varies with changes in visual and verbal ad complexity. In addition to showing how subtitles can increase behavioral intent, results also highlight how varying subtitle content affects memory gains and illustrate how subtitles can lead to negative effects in the uncommon situation that brand information is missing from the audio. As the efficacy of television advertising becomes increasingly debated, same-language subtitling is a simple way to boost advertising effectiveness.

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  12.    ADA Accessibility Standards

    ADA Accessibility Standards

    Accessibility standards issued under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) apply to places of public accommodation, commercial facilities, and state and local government facilities in new construction, alterations, and additions. The ADA Standards are based on minimum guidelines set by the Access Board.

    The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Transportation (DOT) issue the ADA Standards. DOJ’s ADA Standards apply to all facilities except public transportation facilities, which are subject to DOT’s ADA Standards. This version of the ADA Standards combines both documents and notes unique provisions in the DOJ Standards and the DOT Standards. The Access Board is responsible for providing technical assistance and training on these Standards.

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