DRTx Digital Accessibility Quiz

Your name*

1. Who is responsible for making sure DRTx’s materials are digitally accessible?*

The Communications Advocacy team

The A-Team

Every staff person

Sean Jackson

2. DRTx’s plan for ensuring our materials are accessible includes 3 tiers. Which item below is NOT one of the 3 tiers?*

The Communications Advocacy team has expertise and provides technical support to ensure external communications are accessible

DRTx waits for a client or member of the public to request materials in an accessible format before making the materials as accessible as possible

DRTx administrative support staff (the A-Team) have in-depth training and can review and remediate materials for the staff they support

Every DRTx staff member has a basic understanding of how to incorporate and check the most common accessibility features

3. Why is alternative text (alt text) for an image important?*

Alt text allows you to add text in another language

Alt text allows you to add a photo credit

Alt text describes what the image is communicating so a person using a screen reader can access the same information as a sighted person

4. What are the advantages of using descriptive hyperlink text instead of a long URL for a link?*

A descriptive hyperlink is usually shorter and takes less time to read

A descriptive hyperlink tells the person what the link is to

A descriptive hyperlink makes sense because it uses words instead of a URL that could include words, special characters, numbers, and more.

All of the above

5. In Word, how do you create a proper (i.e., accessible) heading?*

Make the text bigger and bolder

Type the word “Heading” before the text

Apply the appropriate Style to the text

6. Which of the options below does Word’s Accessibility Checker NOT do?*

It identifies some of the accessibility issues in your document

It fixes the accessibility issues in your document

It explains why the accessibility issue is important

It provides steps for how to fix the issue

7. Which of the following features will make your document easier to read and more accessible?*

Using font that is 14 point or larger

Not using cursive type text

Not using text that is red or yellow

Not using all caps

All of the above

8. Which of the following formatting features will make your text easier to read and understand?*

Use bulleted or numbered lists

Break up long paragraphs

Left-align the text

All of the above

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