RE: Accessible Org Charts

From: David Andrews (dandrews@visi.com)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 13:38:40 PDT


Thanks, but we are looking for a way to post graphical, and
accessible charts on the web, but just having to create once -- not twice.

Dave

At 03:08 PM 8/13/2008, John Gardner wrote:
>David, of course you can make universally accessible ORG charts. Just use
>IVEO Creator or Creator Pro, and that's it. You can make an org chart in
>Creator, but the easiest thing is to use whatever software is convenient to
>make org charts in and either export as SVG or create a SVG file with IVEO
>Converter. Put these into Creator and add labels to any of the lines that
>may help improve accessibility. And check to be sure that the process
>hasn't broken any text spans. Then save it, and you have your chart.
>Ablind person will need a touchpad to read your chart. And if they don't
>have a ViewPlus embosser or some other easy way to make a tactile copy,
>you'll need to send the tactile. But your chart is accessible to everybody,
>even sighted people.
>
>John
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nfb-rd@nfbcal.org [mailto:nfb-rd@nfbcal.org] On Behalf Of David
>Andrews
>Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2008 11:49 AM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Accessible Org Charts
>
>Dear Friends and Colleagues:
>
>Many organizations, mine included, produce a so-called org chart, or
>organizational chart. This is one of those things that shows positions and
>people, and shows relationships -- who reports to whom.
>
>These things are usually pretty graphical in nature. However, we are
>looking for any software that will produce either an accessible version of
>an org chart, or a separate accessible, and graphical version. Such a thing
>probably doesn't exist, because of the graphical nature of these
>presentations, however it never hurts to ask. We will probably have to
>continue producing an accessible document by hand -- but .....
>
>David Andrews
>
>
>
>David Andrews and white cane Harry.

David Andrews and white cane Harry.



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