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How to tell if a company can produce accessible web sites

How to tell if a company can produce accessible web sites. Sandy Feldman Inclusive Media and Design. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (the AODA) . Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind . - Leviticus 19:14 .

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How to tell if a company can produce accessible web sites

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  1. How to tell if a companycan produce accessible web sites Sandy Feldman Inclusive Media and Design

  2. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (the AODA)

  3. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind - Leviticus 19:14

  4. “a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives” - World Health Organization

  5. “Light bulbs are assistive technology for the vision dependent” -Tom Dekker

  6. “Best viewed in Netscape 2”

  7. The World Wide Web Consortium (w3) sets standards for the Web

  8. 1997The w3 established the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group

  9. “Anyone over 5'8" is wasting material” • -Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 –1959

  10. AODA Time Line Summary of the key dates: 2012 – Phase in begins 2013 – public sector organizations (hospitals, municipalities, colleges and universities) comply 2013 and 2015– private and non-profit organizations required to comply

  11. The tools to pick the team

  12. POUR Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust

  13. PERCEIVABLE they’ve got to know it’s there

  14. OPERABLE it’s got to work

  15. UNDERSTANDABLE it has to make sense

  16. ROBUST it can’t fall apart under pressure

  17. 5 easy tests for web site accessibility

  18. The first two tests are easy to do using your regular browser.

  19. 1. The tab test

  20. 2. Links that make sense out of context

  21. The next three tests will need free web based utilities

  22. 3. Headings create structure

  23. 4. Semantic code

  24. 5. Valid code

  25. No code errors • Makes sense without added styles • Works without a mouse • Structured by headings • Has meaningful link text

  26. Test pages in your browser and using free web based utilities

  27. SUMMARY

  28. Thank You.Sandy Feldmansandyfeldman@inclusivemedia.ca

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