We want to ensure that all training participants are able to fully participate regardless of disabilities. We will do our best to ensure that all required training materials are highly accessible. At the same time, we realize that there are accessibility issues with many social media tools. We could not provide a true representation of modern social media if we disregarded all tools that have accessibility issues. While we will implement accessibility as much as possible, the training will explore tools that do not have optimal accessibility. We will discuss the accessibility of these tools throughout the training, will discuss alternatives and options that may be more accessible, and will provide assistance where necessary to ensure that all participants understand the power of and potential accessibility issues of each of the tools and resources we discuss.
Slideshare is an online service that allows people to upload PowerPoints and PDF files to a central site for sharing with others. When presentations are uploaded, Slideshare puts them into an online player that can be embedded into other sites, such as a wiki or a blog. It also creates a transcript of the text from the presentation that is included at the bottom of the associated Slideshare page, but depending on how the user has set up his/her slides, this transcript can be imperfect at best.
Slideshare is an excellent resource and we've included links to a number of Slideshare presentations in this wiki. However, its set-up makes it challenging for those with visual disabilities to use, so we have clearly identified links that go to Slideshare presentations.