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During our brief time together we hope to

This WebAIM workshop is presented to the UofU May 3, 2001 Paul Bohman, M.S., Cyndi Rowland, Ph.D. Center for Persons with Disabilities, Utah State University.

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  1. This WebAIM workshop is presented to the UofUMay 3, 2001Paul Bohman, M.S.,Cyndi Rowland, Ph.D.Center for Persons with Disabilities,Utah State University WebAIM is Supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Learning Anytime Anywhere Program through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) department No official endorsement is inferred.

  2. WebAIM is Supported by the U.S. Department of Education, Learning Anytime Anywhere Program through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) department No official endorsement is inferred.

  3. During our brief time together we hope to • Obtain a basic understanding of accessibility & whyit’s important • Gain beginning skills to make your sites accessible Help you . . .

  4. Obtain a basic understanding of accessibility Accessibility “Development of information systems flexible enough to accommodate the needs of the broadest range of users. . . Regardless of age or disability” Waddell, C.D (1998, p.1). Applying the ADA to the Internet: A Web Accessibility Standard. [Online]. Available: <http://www.rit.edu/~easi/law/weblaw.htm

  5. Obtain a basic understanding of accessibility Who does this affect? • People challenged in • Vision • Hearing • Motor skills • Cognition

  6. Obtain a basic understanding of accessibility Why Concern Ourselves? • It’s the right thing to do Ethics would have us treat others equally • It’s the smart thing to do Economic decisions Web decisions Compatibility with emerging technology

  7. Why Concern Ourselves? It’s the Law • Rehabilitation Act (Sec 504 & 508) • ADA of 1990 • see 28 C.F.R. Part 35 • Dept of Justice ruling (9/9/96): ADA accessibility requirements apply to Internet web pages (10 NDLR 240) • Telecommunications Act (see Sec 255) • Responses from U.S. Dept of Ed, OCR (see docket numbers 09-95-2206; 09-97-2002)

  8. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act “ no otherwise qualified individual with a disability in the United States . . . Shall, solely by reason of his disability, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. . .” (29 U.S.C. Section 794)

  9. Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1997 provides the legislative language for accessible electronic information technology, including the Internet Takes effect: June 21, 2001 We will all watch for case law outlining “undue burden” and “fundamental alteration.”

  10. Obtain a basic understanding of accessibility What consumers experience • Visual impairments • No sight • Some sight • Hearing impairments • The inability to benefit from audio/multimedia

  11. Obtain a basic understanding of accessibility What consumers experience • Motor impairments • The inability to use a mouse • Issues of accuracy and fatigue • Cognitive impairments • The inability to synthesize complex information quickly • The inability to adapt to inconsistent interfaces

  12. Determine to make your site accessible • To benefit those in need of accessible sites • To comply with the law Why?

  13. Gain beginning skills to make your sites accessible Things to think about • Look beyond the WYSIWYG, get “under the hood” of your Web documents • Redesigning Vs. retrofitting

  14. Gain beginning skills to make your sites accessible First steps in accessibility Accessibility validators: • Online validators • Bobby (www.cast.org/bobby) • The WAVE (www.temple.edu/inst_disabilities/piat/wave) • Software validators • Dreamweaver • SSB Technologies • HotMetal Pro • A-Prompt

  15. Gain beginning skills to make your sites accessible First steps in accessibility • Markup validators • HTML 4.0/ XHTML 1.0 • CSS 1.0(http://validator.w3.org)

  16. Gain beginning skills to make your sites accessible Where to start? • Start with the things that you understand • Realize that it is an ongoing process that gets easier over time

  17. Gain beginning skills to make your sites accessible Fundamental Principle #1 Create from the outside in, create from the users perspective

  18. Gain beginning skills to make your sites accessible Fundamental Principle #2 Don’t assume they use the same technologies that you use (e.g., mouse, monitor, IE or Netscape)

  19. Resources • Internet Access Groups and Organizations • WebAIM: www.webaim.org • Trace Center: www.trace.wisc.edu • EASI: http://www.rit.edu/~easi/ • DoIt: www.washington.edu/doit • Center for Applied Special Technology: (this site contains the Bobby validator) www.cast.org • HTML Writers Guild www.hwg.org

  20. Resources • Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C • Web content guidelines • www.w3.org/tr/wai-webcontent • Authoring tool guidelines • www.w3.org/tr/wai-autools • User agent guidelines • Www.w3.org/tr/wai/uaag

  21. Resources • 508 guidelines • In total • http://www.section508.gov/final_text.html • Excerpts for the Internet • www.webaim.org/standards/508-excerpts

  22. Resources • Captioning • National Center for Accessible Media (MAGpie and SMLE info) • http://ncam.wgbh.org/ • http://ncam.wgbh.org/webaccess/magpie • Captioned Media Program, National Association of the Deaf • www.cvf.org

  23. Thank You!

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