[Athen] Creating and accessible organization chart!

Hadi Rangin hadir at uw.edu
Tue Oct 21 08:54:23 PDT 2014


Another method would be to use nested ordered lists.
Yes, it can get big and messy but you can limit the level of nesting by organizing the the major nodes in separate lists.

Example:

My organization:

1. College1
2. College2
3. College3
...

College1:

1. Dept1
1.1. unit1
1.1.1. sub-unit1
1.1.2. sub-unit2
1.1.3. sub-unit3
1.2. Unit2
...
2. Dept2
...

This will give a unique hierarchy of the org chart.

Hope it helps.

Hadi

-----Original Message-----
From: athen-list [mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman13.u.washington.edu] On Behalf Of Greg Kraus
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 8:34 AM
To: Access Technology Higher Education Network
Subject: Re: [Athen] Creating and accessible organization chart!

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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> Susan Kelmer

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

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> 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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