Additional Tips for Accessibility
In addition to the configuration settings presented herein there are also various layout and design considerations that can impact the accessibility of documents produced by Oracle Documaker.
Tips:
- While producing charts, it is recommended to provide meaningful legends for easy interpretation of the data points represented.
- Do not use ASCII characters to render drawings or figures such as “:-)” or “-->” or a series of characters such as “---------------”. Screen Readers may read these without interpretation. So the user may hear “dash dash greater than” rather than the arrow(-->) that was intended.
- Ensure hyperlinks are underlined so that a user who can’t distinguish the color knows they are links.
- Avoid abbreviations and acronyms unless so common, they’re considered as part of the language. Define or explain an abbreviation on the first time you use it.
- Avoid making explicit reference to mnemonics.
- Descriptions for alternate text should be concise. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommends 100 or fewer characters for alternate text.
- It is a good idea to end the alternate text with a punctuation mark so that voice synthesizers pause for short time and therefore help comprehension.
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