[Athen] Creating and accessible organization chart!

[Greg Kraus]

For some org charts I've found that a textual description becomes
necessary. One of our IT org charts has so many sideways relationships
and dual reporting structures that an outline won't do it. In this
case, we just describe all of the entities and their relationships
with each other.

Greg


On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Teresa Haven <Teresa.Haven at nau.edu> wrote:

> Hi, Susan.  The method I used in the past was to create an outline, so that

> the various levels of the outline corresponded to the nodes and hierarchies

> in the org chart.  It basically turns the org chart on its side and makes it

> text.  And/or use Styles in a list so that you are tagging each level of

> information: a single H1 for the top node of the chart, H2s for the next

> level down, and so forth.  Remember that charts are generally visual

> representations of data; just go back to the raw data and work with it in a

> non-visual modality.

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> Hope this helps,

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> Teresa

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> Teresa Haven, Ph.D.

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> Accessibility Analyst, Northern Arizona University

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> Co-Chair, AHEAD Standing Committee on Technology

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> From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On

> Behalf Of Susan Kelmer

> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 7:53 AM

> To: Access Technology Higher Education Network

> (athen-list at u.washington.edu); Alternate Media

> Subject: [Athen] Creating and accessible organization chart!

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> We are doing a symposium this week, and we have an org chart that needs to

> be shared with one of the participants, and she is a screen reader user.

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> Help!  I’ve never thought of this before or been asked to do one, so how

> would you go about creating an org chart for this person to use (or alt text

> description if that is the case)?  I’m waiting for the original electronic

> version to get to me so I can see how it was created, but in the meantime, I

> wanted to get some ideas about how to create this in an accessible format

> for her.

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> THANKS!

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> Susan Kelmer

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> Alternate Format Coordinator

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> Disability Services

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> University of Colorado

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> 303-735-4836

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