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CBORD Product Accessibility

CBORD Product Accessibility. Presented by: Jerry Loch, Director of Quality Assurance. What is Software Accessibility?. Visual Impairment low-vision, complete or partial blindness, and color blindness Hearing Disabilities including deafness, being hard of hearing, or Hyperacusis

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CBORD Product Accessibility

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  1. CBORD Product Accessibility Presented by: Jerry Loch, Director of Quality Assurance

  2. What is Software Accessibility? • Visual Impairment low-vision, complete or partial blindness, and color blindness • Hearing Disabilities including deafness, being hard of hearing, or Hyperacusis • Motor or Dexterity Impairment Paralysis, Cerebral Palsy, Dyspraxia, Carpal Tunnel and repetitive strain injury • Cognitive Impairments (head injury, autism, developmental disabilities), and learning disabilities, such as Dyslexia, Dyscalculia or ADHD • Software Accessibility and Web or Mobile Application Accessibility refers to the requirement that persons with various disabilities of all types and severity be able to access features and content in applications similar to those without a disability.

  3. Accessibility Standards – Glossary of Terms • Section 508 – An amendment to the United States Workforce Rehabilitation Act of 1973, is a federal law mandating that all electronic and information technology used by the federal gov’t be accessible to people with disabilities. • WCAG 2.0- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is developed by the W3C in cooperation with organizations around the world, with a goal of providing a shared standard for web content accessibility that meets the needs of individuals, organizations, and governments internationally. • Section 508 Refresh– (Jan 2018) The standards were updated to include focus on newer technologies and incorporated the content from WCAG 2.0 • VPAT 2.0 – a reporting format that enables businesses to document product conformance with relevant accessibility standards • Some of the compliance terms CBORD we will discuss today…

  4. CBORD’s Partnership with Level Access End goal = Incorporate A11y into CBORD’s development lifecycle … Discovery Retrofit Use Case testing and VPAT 2.0 generation by our partners at Level Acess Results analysis drives the A11y roadmap – prioritization and remediation of known issues Integration of Accessibility design into product planning, common repository of A11y compliant controls for new platforms Standardize

  5. CBORD/Level Access: Discovery Phase Retrofitting Standardization Discovery < 2 MONTHS 18-36 MONTHS 2-18 MONTHS • Understand the system … create a game plan … 1

  6. Goals for ACCESS Discovery Phase • Profile system use and assets (definition of use cases and modules for representative test plan) • Understand system compliance (Automated and manual testing and use case execution • Prioritize retrofitting activities (detailed report generation by Level Access and delivery call / working sessions) • Define the big picture business, policy and process approach for Engineering and other groups at CBORD • Understand the system … create a game plan …

  7. CBORD/Level Access: Retrofitting Phase Retrofitting Standardization Discovery <2 MONTHS 18-36 MONTHS 2-18 MONTHS • Execute the game plan … 2

  8. Goals for Retrofitting Phase • Immediate patching of high-risk issues (based on Severity, Visibility and Tractability) • Medium-term changes to underlying code base (ARIA tags, navigation, common library of A11y components) • Long-termprovisioning of development teams to address the issues (UX/UI A11y experts on staff, A11y training for Dev and QA teams) • Immediately following Discovery .. Execute the game plan…

  9. CBORD/Level Access: Standardization Phase Retrofitting Standardization Discovery <2 MONTHS 18-36 MONTHS 2-18 MONTHS • Operationalize Accessibility and Maintain Compliance … 3

  10. Goals for Standardization Phase • Operationalize accessibility • Move accessibility responsibilities to long-term teams • Maintain level of accessibility achieved in retrofitting • Control for accessibility throughout SDLC • Operationalize Accessibility and Maintain Compliance …

  11. CBORD’s Commitment & Leadership Plan • Drive Discovery/Remediation – partnership with Level Access • Development Cycle – “Accessibility Guidelines for Dev/Test” • Publicize – Blog on Accessibility and linking to social media • UPDATE – Quarterly White Paper, VPAT links and other content on cbord.com • INFORM – Work with Marketing on Accessibility Webinars • What have we done and where are we headed in the A11y mission …

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