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Website and Multimedia Accessibility

Website and Multimedia Accessibility. Website/Multimedia Accessibility. Overview 1. About JAN 2. Best Practices 3. SNAP Tool Example 4. Questions. Website/Multimedia Accessibility. Consultation Job Accommodations All industries All job categories All impairments Employment Legislation

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Website and Multimedia Accessibility

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  1. Website and Multimedia Accessibility

  2. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Overview • 1. About JAN • 2. Best Practices • 3. SNAP Tool Example • 4. Questions

  3. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Consultation • Job Accommodations • All industries • All job categories • All impairments • Employment Legislation • Americans with Disabilities Act • Rehabilitation Act

  4. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Technical Assistance • Free • National • Easy to Use • Audience Focused • Employers • Individuals • Service Providers • Others

  5. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Knowledge Exchange • Over 40,000 Contacts • Telephone • Email • JAN on Demand • Live Chat • Social Networks

  6. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Knowledge Exchange • Over 3.5 million Webpage Requests • News (subscribe@AskJAN.org) • Publications and Resources • JAN en Español

  7. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Work As Your Partner • Accessible Video/Audio • Accessible Documents • Accessible Webcasts/Webinars • Accessible Distance Education • Accessible Social Networks • Accessible Online Application Systems • Accessible Websites Where to start? Be aware.

  8. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Best Practices

  9. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 1. Review distance learning and online application systems. • Responsibility: Provide usable and understandable alternatives. • Example: Explain to students, employees, and applicants with disabilities how they can get help using the online system and how to request reasonable accommodation.

  10. Website/Multimedia Accessibility Reasonable Accommodation Distance learning students with disabilities may contact XXX coordinators via telephone, fax, e-mail, and other means to request and arrange for accommodations.

  11. Website/Multimedia Accessibility Welcome to the Hiring Center Please read the following statement carefully: XXXXX offers reasonable accommodation in the employment process for individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance in the application or hiring process to accommodate a disability, you may request an accommodation at any time. Please contact any member of management at your nearest XXXXX facility. XXXXX is an Equal Opportunity Employer- By Choice.

  12. Website/Multimedia Accessibility XXXXX

  13. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 2. Use text descriptions for visual material. • Responsibility: Know the difference between essential and repetitive text descriptions; descriptions for nonessential visual material are unnecessary. • Example: Images containing content are treated differently than those with bullets.

  14. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 3. Caption audio and video. • Responsibility: A determination of open, closed, and/or audio captions must be made based on audience, venue for distribution, and script. • Example: The JAN YouTube • script includes descriptive • captions.

  15. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 4. Maintain consistent page design. • Responsibility: Headers, footers, content, and page navigation should be included in style sheets and given a skip option if applicable. Cognitive-related design elements are the most often overlooked. • Example: Dropdowns/footers should not vary.

  16. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 5. Minimize reliance on color. • Responsibility: Use computer generated testers to show visually what sites will look like to others. • Example: Red/green and blue/yellow are often misinterpreted.

  17. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 6. Allow keyboard navigation. • Responsibility: Usability tests can ensure tab order fits the user’s needs. • Example: Built-in tab order may need overridden.

  18. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 7. Program items with audio, video, and motion elements with controls. • Responsibility: Stop, go, pause, and volume elements should be tested “hands-on.” • Example: Skins may not • accurately indicate ability • to control elements.

  19. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 8. Program the default human language of each page. • Responsibility: The need to analyze accurate content to a user is not a judgment call. • Example: Use assistive • technologies such as Braille • translators and screen • reading software. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html lang="en"><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/atozdisabilities.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->

  20. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 9. Provide users with accessible documents. • Responsibility: To fully test documents for accessibility, they need to be accessed and reviewed for logical order and descriptions. • Example: Use free screen reading software to review documents. http://www.nvda-project.org/

  21. Website/Multimedia Accessibility 10. Evaluate the Website. • Responsibility: Automatic checking is not asubstitute for manually testing a Website for accessibility. • Example: Use tools to test with multiple versions of • browsers.

  22. Website/Multimedia Accessibility SNAP Your Online System Into Shape 1) Selectyour team, 2) Nois not an answer, 3) Acceptchallenges, and 4) Prioritizeaccessibility first.

  23. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • green (fully accessible) • yellow (partially accessible) • red (inaccessible) flags • not applicable (NA)

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  33. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Big Picture

  34. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Include accessibility in the initial phases of purchasing, contracting, implementing, and updating • Make students, faculty, and applicants aware that they have accommodation choices • Use JAN for low-cost solutions, referrals, assistive technologies, and other technical assistance • Understand that 508-compliant is not always enough • Reinforce that traditional accommodations may not translate directly to electronic communications • Have an overall process (with SNAP Tool) that includes IT, disability services, students with disabilities, finance, and ADA coordinator

  35. Website/Multimedia Accessibility Accessibility Issues: Individual Specific • Vision impairments – Descriptions for images, pictures, tables in text or in audio • Hearing impairments – Captions, transcripts, volume control • Mobility/dexterity impairments – Timed responses, browser compatibility for keyboard alternatives for mouse commands, tab order • Cognitive impairments – Text to audio, distracting visuals, silence audio, complex language, lack of graphics, lack of clear and consistent organization

  36. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) • Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act • OCR Letters & Court Cases • NPRM for Web Accessibility Delayed

  37. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Questions

  38. Website/Multimedia Accessibility • Contact • (800)526-7234 (V) & (877)781-9403 (TTY) • AskJAN.org & jan@askjan.org

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