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About the Webinar

Data visualizations, charts, diagrams, and other graphics have become increasingly common in public health and science communications as a visually appealing and intuitive way to interpret data and represent concepts. However, the information in these graphics is often inaccessible to the millions of people who use screen readers to interact with digital content, including blind and visually impaired audiences. With new ADA compliance requirements going into effect soon and lawsuits on the rise, it’s clearer than ever that it’s time to make data accessible to everyone.

Creating, designing, and publishing projects with accessibility in mind widens your audience, conforms with legal standards, and is a matter of health equity. But it’s not always easy. Complex figures require detailed descriptions, which should be written by the people who understand them best: the writers, data analysts, and epidemiologists who made them. 

In the first of this two-part webinar series, we’ll go over standards, regulations, and expectations for publishing accessible graphics, helping you understand your role and responsibilities in the process. You’ll learn about elements of screen reader accessibility for documents, PDFs, and web pages, and gain the grounding you need to have informed conversations with your team. In our follow-up webinar, we’ll get hands-on, using a series of example graphics to teach you how to describe complex figures and provide accessible formatted data across different platforms and contexts.

Stay tuned for dates by signing up above! If you have any questions, you can email them to rivers@datamaven.health.