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COAP 2170 Week 6 program

Topic: Accessibility

Monday

Introduction (videos and PPT)

• Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind (11.5 min. Flash)
• Experiences of students with Disabilities: Quicktime Windows Media from webaim
• Surfing the Web With a Screen Reader (20 min. AccessIT Video, start a min 4)
• PPT slides from Sharon Trerise, Cornell
• JAWS demo

Exam feedback

• Grade average was 3.1 (B+)
• Best was 23 points/4.1/A and worst was 11.5 points/2.1/C+
• Formula used: (points+0.4)*0.175, i.e. one free question (0.4 constant) and a linear coefficient
• For some: Better preparation needed (i.e. homework/reading/reflecting)

Principles and players

• The "players": W3C, US gov, some other national programs, corporate (e.g. Microsoft), some universities

Some important checklists:

• WCAG 2.0 at a glance
• WCAG "quick" ref (official)
• WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist (A PDF version) .... this is more understandable
• WebAIM's Section 508 Checklist for the Section 508 Standards Guide

Categories of users

• visual, motor, auditory, seizures, cognitive

On-line accessibility testing

• TAW3 online checks WCAG 2.0 compliance at all levels. E.g. our friendly university home page has 431 problems and 93 warnings .....

• WebAim On-line service.

• Deque Systems on-line service

• Cynthia says

• UITest.com. This is an all-in-one service for accessibility, validity and miscellaneous. Enter a URL and the do checking using various other services.

See Accessibility Evaluation Tools at WebAIM and Complete List of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools at W3C for larger lists.

Designers' web browser extensions (some are alternatives to online tools)

• on line service WebAim Firefox extension

• WCAG Contrast checker

• Fangs Screen Reader Emulator, Firefox 2.0 -4.0 extension.

Assistive technology for browsers

• See web accessibility (no need to install assistive technology for this lesson)

Classroom activity

Evaluate a website according to some WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) principles

(1) Older W3C version focusing on content:

• Checklist of Checkpoints for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0

(2) Since WCAG 1.0 has now been replaced by the more complex WCAG 2.0, you also could use the following:

• WCAG 2.0 Checklist (HTML version)
• WCAG 2.0 Checklist (PDF version)

(3) US government - section 508 for government websites

• WebAIM's Section 508 Checklist (PDF version)

Use an on-line service to help you with this task.