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Accessibility

The Galaxy Training Network is committed to making its content accessible to all learners, including those with disabilities. While we are a volunteer organisation, we are constantly working to ensure that our training materials are accessible to everyone, regardless of their abilities or background. We use a variety of accessibility features and tools, including alt text, closed captioning, and automated testing, to make our content accessible to all learners.

We aim for WCAG 2.0 AA compliance (AAA where possible), under the default theme and styling of the GTN. We are investigating our Section 508 compliance.

Accessibility Features

Visual

  • Screen reader support1
  • Dark mode support (including dim and fully "lights out") via the Extras menu
  • "low-js" versions of content for easier navigability; we provide a "plain text" view of slides, in addition to the raw markdown text.

Auditory

  • For our automated slides, we provide perfectly captioned content
  • SRT files and a transcript are provided of the slides.
  • No other sounds are used anywhere on the site.
Help Improve Our Video Captions

If you record a training video for the GTN, you will receive a link to an auto-generated captions document. Please take a few minutes to review and correct it — adding punctuation, fixing technical terms, and making the text match what you actually said goes a long way toward making our videos accessible to everyone.

We are exploring ways to let the community help improve captions on existing videos as well. If you're interested in contributing, reach out via the contact channels below — we'd love to have your help!

Mobility

  • None

Cognitive

  • No animations are present
  • No videos auto-play
  • No sounds are present (excepting videos)

Contact

We know accessibility is an on-going process and there will always be work to do and improvements to be made. If you need support or would like to provide feedback you can contact us on GitHub issues, Matrix, or via email, whichever is most accessible for you. We take all your feedback and suggestions seriously, honestly, and with care.

Additional Features

Auto-expanding boxes: : Tutorials can be viewed with all boxes automatically expanded, just add ?expand-all=true to the URL of the page you are visiting.

Theme changeable via URL : Adding ?theme= will let you control the theme via URL.

JS free experience : The training works completely without Javascript, if that helps you. The only features that are degraded are the automatic Table of Contents, and choose your own adventure style tutorials. This is an ongoing project to work around in a sensible way. Additionally themes do not function without JS, we do not have a workaround currently, as the GTN is a fully static site.

Footnotes

  1. One of our developers uses a screenreader, not full time, but on a regular basis. ↩