An important part of developing accessible content, is providing alternative formats for those who can not perceive the primary content. As described above, that might mean including a text version of audio, or an audio version of visual content, among other adaptations.

When you insert files from the file manager into a content page, the editor recognizes these as an Original Resource files, and lists them under the Adapted Content tab, shown in Figure 8 below. First define the Original Resource Type, either Auditory, Textual, or Visual. Then in the Alternatives area of the screen click on the Add buttons to open the popup file manager. In this case files that can be included as alternative formats, have a Use as Alternative button beside them. Click the button beside a file to have it added as an alternative.

Adapted content panel of the AContent content editor.

Figure 8: Adapted content panels of the AContent content editor.

Once your alternatives have been added for each original resource, save and close. At the upper right of the page displayed, you will see the AccessForAll Toolbar used to display the alternatives so you can see how they might appear to an end user. This toolbar, shown in Figure 9, is just for quick viewing of alternatives. In most cases those who are going to take advantage of the alternatives, will set their personal preferences to either replace original resources with the alternatives, or append to them.

AccessForAll toolbar

Figure 9: AccessForAll Toolbar