Accommodations & Accessibility
The ARO Accommodations & Accessibility Committee has been hard at work collecting resources to be used in and outside of ARO to further ARO's committee to diversity, equity and inclusion. Below you will find Resources and ARO content containing an archive of helpful articles, coffee hour sessions, guides to best practices, and more!
RESOURCES
LGBTQIA+
- Check out this helpful article on pronouns and inclusive language -- https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/pronouns-inclusive-language
ARO CONTENT
Poster, Slides, and Audio Transcript Templates created by the ARO Accessibility & Accommodations Committee
ARO Poster Template PPT File - Click here
ARO Poster Template PDF File - Click here
ARO Poster Audio Transcript Word File - Click here
ARO Slide Template PPT File - Click here
DMA Hosted Coffee Hour: Equity, Inclusion and Accommodation for Researchers With Disabilities
The ARO Diversity and Minority Affairs committee hosted a coffee hour in conjunction with the ARO Accommodations Committee.
This session was a panel format with the following speakers:
- Dr. Lina Reiss
- Dr. Ray Goldsworthy
- Dr. Julia Huyck
- Dr. Brad Buran
- Please Click Here for the Session Recording
Resources shared during the session!
Session Chat
Guidelines for Mentoring an NIH Trainee Who Is Deaf or Hard of Hearing
Basic Cultural Awareness for Interacting with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Persons and in a Classroom or Meeting Setting
Session Materials:
LINKED HERE is a paper that may discussed during the session.
Poster and Oral Presentation Design Best Practices For Vision and Hearing Accessibility
For tips with visuals, here is a downloadable presentation- Downloadable PowerPoint Presentation
Tip 1: Be redundant in how you present information
- Visualize audio stimuli
- Use essential labels or text to understand the figure without having to rely 100% on what you’re saying
- Use different line textures or shapes for each condition/group
Tip 2: Slow down and pause after important points
- Allows time to process what you are saying
- Allows for automatic captioning time to align with what you’re saying
Tip 3: Choose your color palettes carefully
- Be aware of color combinations that are hard for some to distinguish
- Check your presentation and palette color choices using the online tools provided here
- Color blindness simulator (requires conversion to JPEG): http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/
- Check your color palettes: https://coolors.co
- Check your color palettes (adobe): https://color.adobe.com/create/color-accessibility
- Example color palettes: https://davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/#%23D81B60-%231E88E5-%23FFC107-%23004D40
- Tip 4: Incorporate high contrast elements
- Increase contrast using color
- Increasing contrast by adding white borders around data points / shapes
Tip 5: Increase clarity of text and data
- Aim for larger text and data points
- Use distinctive shapes for group/condition comparisons
- Use sans serif font (e.g., Arial, Helvetica)
Use the following tools to further improve colorblind and other vision accessibility.
Great online resources for visualization and accessibility:
- https://www.betterment.com/design/accessible-data-visualization
- https://towardsdatascience.com/an-incomplete-guide-to-accessible-data-visualization-33f15bfcc400
- http://www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com/UCvision/vision.html#nogo
- https://www.brightcarbon.com/blog/optimising-presentations-for-people-with-colour-blindness/