@ Virtual
The Great Lakes ADA Center in collaboration with the Southeast ADA Center invites you to register for the upcoming Accessible Technology Webinar titled “Can you Read this Map: Checking Maps for ADA Accessibility.
Speaker(s):
- Brandon Biggs, CEO, XR Navigation
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Description:
This talk will present ways of systematically evaluating and creating ADA-accessible complex digital spatial diagrams and maps. Whether you are working with city GIS, campuses, buildings, or anatomical diagrams, these techniques will be useful. Alternate text, keyboard accessibility, and non-text contrast are a few areas that will be covered. Traditionally, finding the “primary purpose” and making that available through text has been enough to achieve accessibility. However, recent technological research and advancements have rendered this old method non-compliant. Techniques such as interactive alt-text and detailed text descriptions will be presented, making all the distance, direction, shape, size, orientation, and general layout of all points, polygons, and lines viewable and creatable by everyone. Techniques for full keyboard accessibility of all features, and creating a 3:1 contrast will be explored. After this presentation, participants will have a toolkit to evaluate maps for ADA accessibility and know where and how to make ADA-accessible maps.
Individuals will be able to submit questions for the speaker in advance during the registration process.
Human Generated Real-Time Captioning will be provided for this session.
Format: Zoom Webinar Platform (Closed Captioning will be provided via Zoom and Stream Text link option)
Registration Required: Registration for this session can be found on the schedule page at www.ada-accessibletech.org. If you do not have an account with our system, you will be required to establish one before registering.
Registration deadline: Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Continuing Education Recognition (CER): ACTCP, Certificate of Attendance
Questions should be directed to webinars@adaconferences.org
