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The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force ( COGA )

The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force ( COGA ). Update for WCAG March 2014 Lisa Seeman. The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force ( COGA ).

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The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force ( COGA )

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  1. The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA) Update for WCAG March 2014 Lisa Seeman

  2. The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA) The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force is a task force of the Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group. Aim: To improve Web accessibility for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.

  3. Content • COGA- The work ahead of us, where we are • Some issues • What might we end up with?

  4. Cognitive disabilities Conditions that impact a person’s ability to use a website include: • memory • reading text • problem solving • keeping focused (attention span) • computation (for example calculations)

  5. cognitive disabilities The largest group of disabilities are people with cognitive disabilities • For example: 115 million people with dementia worldwide by 2050 Meanwhile, many systems have become more and more complex • Web applications • TV interfaces, heating • Phone systems

  6. The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force Creating a roadmap exploring how to make Web content more accessible and usable by different people and groups of people with Cognitive and Learning Disabilities: • Review existing techniques and how they can be improved • When necessary, develop techniques • Develop suggested enhancements to existing W3C specifications • Develop engineering approaches and author strategies for further review

  7. Current Work - Gap analysis All on our wiki

  8. Gap Analysis

  9. Phase 1 • Dyslexia • Dyscalculia • ADD/ADHD • Brain injury, aphasia • Non-vocal • Dementia • Down Syndrome • Autism

  10. What might we end up with?

  11. What might we end up with?

  12. Some simple techniques are good for everyone • Include short tooltips on all icons, jargon • For non-standard UI, a help link should be viewable • Help should be contact sensitive (F1 default?) • Pressing 0 on a phone menu always gets you a person These are just ideas….nothing formal

  13. What might we end up with?

  14. What might we end up with?

  15. Some times the right interface may be different for different users • Dyslexia or Dyscalculia • Alzheimer's or Non-Vocal SAVE

  16. What might we end up with?

  17. Metadata and IMS:Help people find the right alternative content User Descriptor ------------------- Preferences

  18. What might we end up with?

  19. Some times the right interface may be different for different users SAVE

  20. What might we end up with?

  21. finding the right techniques 2.2.5 When an authenticated session expires, the user can continue the activity without loss of data after re-authenticating. • (Level AAA) Guideline 2.4 Provide ways to help users navigate, find content, and determine where they are. • Making links visually distinct (Advisory Techniques for Guideline 2.4)

  22. Issue 1 - Author Freedom • Not necessarily be a legal requirement • for most content • Many people want to increase their market • or simply accommodate as many people as possible

  23. Issue 2 People with different cognitive disabilities often need different things • But • Not always • We can handle it

  24. What might we end up with?

  25. Supportive material • Globish • 1500 English words • Our own lexicon • home – our main web page • Facebook – a web site that connect people with friends • Instructions on common interface elements • Test with user groups

  26. What might we end up with?

  27. The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA) Thank you….. • lisa.seeman@zoho.com

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