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WCAG 2.0 training & orientation

WCAG 2.0 training & orientation. Fundamentals and perspectives for analysts. Course overview. Understanding why WCAG is important What is WCAG 2.0? Ensure your website is: Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust How to integrate WCAG 2.0 guidelines Recap and top ten considerations.

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WCAG 2.0 training & orientation

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  1. WCAG 2.0 training & orientation • Fundamentals and perspectives for analysts

  2. Course overview • Understanding why WCAG is important • What is WCAG 2.0? Ensure your website is: • Perceivable • Operable • Understandable • Robust • How to integrate WCAG 2.0 guidelines • Recap and top ten considerations

  3. Beyond the legality • WCAG sets a standard for great development practices that benefit us all in various ways • Flexible and extensible mark-up/code • Mobile devices • Adaptable content presentation • Reach a broader audience • Tied into wider network of world-wide standards

  4. WCAG principle: POUR • Developing with the POUR model • Perceivable • Operable • Understandable • Robust

  5. WCAG principle: POUR • Developing with the POUR model: perceivable • Non-text elements must have a text alternative • Provide alternatives for time-based media • Create content that can be presented in different ways without losing structure or information • Give sufficient distinction between foreground and background (not just text and images of text, but audio and video as well)

  6. WCAG principle: POUR • Developing with the POUR model: operable • Make all functionality available from a keyboard • Provide sufficient time to read and use content • Do not design in ways that cause seizures • Provide clear and consistent navigation and context

  7. WCAG principle: POUR • Developing with the POUR model: understandable • Make text readable and understandable • Make your website appear and operate predictably • Help your users avoid and correct their mistakes

  8. WCAG principle: POUR • Developing with the POUR model: robust • Maximize compatibility with current and future user agents • Support for assistive technologies

  9. Your website is perceivable • Non-text elements that convey information • Text alternatives for images of text or information • Long description pages/content for some images • Consider alternatives to using images/non-text • Documents with images are in the same boat

  10. Your website is perceivable • Time-based media • Video: provide captioning and descriptive text • Audio: provide text transcript • Flash: provide combination of the two (case by case)

  11. Your website is perceivable • Adaptable content • Proper use of document structure • Meaningful and accurate sequence of content • Sensory issues (size, color, contrast, etc.) • Separation of content and presentation • Layout controlled by CSS

  12. Your website is perceivable Layers of separation for web content • Content can be re-used • Formatting unique to end use • Easier to migrate and re-tool

  13. Your website is perceivable • Content is distinguishable • Color and contrast of your text and images • Controls for audio and video • Text can be resized and made color-neutral • Audio: background and foreground contrast • Put the user in control

  14. Your website is operable • Keyboard accessible • No mouse-only functionality • No keyboard traps (stuck position requiring mouse) • Page short-cuts and access keys

  15. Your website is operable • Time-sensitive data entry • Adjustable time for entry • Pausing, stopping or hiding content • Remembering user state and input

  16. Your website is operable • Visual issues • Seizures – minimal page flashing • Alternatives to color for conveying function/meaning

  17. Your website is operable • Navigable content • Bypass navigational and header elements • Descriptive page titles and document headings • Menu and focus order is intuitive and consistent • Purposeful and intuitive links • Multiple ways of reaching content • Context and location is made apparent

  18. Your website is understandable • Content is readable • Language barriers • Unusual words, acronyms and terms explained • Reading level • Contrast and sizing issues

  19. Your website is understandable • Content is predictable • Initial focus on page load (don’t confuse the user) • Notification of changes in page behavior on user input • Consistent navigation and document structure links • Instructions and cues for complicated tasks and forms

  20. Your website is understandable • Input assistance • Field labels, instructions and cues • Error identification with instructions and tips • Proactive error prevention steps • Context-sensitive helps

  21. Your website is reliable (robust) • Beyond compatible: adaptable and flexible • Avoid browser-specific requirements (e.g. IE only) • Use markup that facilitates accessibility • Design and build towards extensibility • Always validate your content and mark-up

  22. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Fail to plan, plan to fail • Iterative testing reduces the burden of full-on site testing • You already test for functionality; add accessibility • It’s the right thing to do… and it’s in the statutes • Acting on WCAG 2.0 improves the quality of your site • Progressive Enhancement vs. Graceful Degradation

  23. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Waterfall model • Requirements • Design • Implementation • Integration • Testing and debugging • Installation and maintenance

  24. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Waterfall model: requirements • Require compliance with WCAG 2.0 guidelines • Require well-formed (x)HTML and CSS • OK to require reasonably modern browsers • Not OK to require a specific browser alone

  25. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Waterfall model: design • Wireframes and document/page structure • Considerations with client/server side processing • How will people navigate through complex pages/forms • Correct document/code structure and CSS formatting • Content can be rendered solely as text • Plan for error handling, helps and other assistance

  26. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Waterfall model: implementation • Pages and forms built with proper markup and structure • EVERY point of input has a label • Check tab order • Access keys for repetitive activities in long forms • Iterative testing of components and in page assembly

  27. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Waterfall model: integration, testing & debugging • Redundancy (extra eyes) catches human error • Well-formed HTML/CSS reduces errors and debugging • Building for WCAG means well thought out code

  28. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Waterfall model: installation and maintenance • No development effort is perfect • Address accessibility or usability issues as alerted • Striving for accessibility is evolutionary

  29. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Spiral or Agile model • Determine objectives • Identify and resolve the risks • Development and test • Plan your next iteration

  30. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Spiral or Agile model: determine objectives • Establish WCAG guidelines as a foundation • Consider accessibility factors into this build iteration

  31. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Spiral or Agile model: identify and resolve risks • Plan for client-side degradation • Plan for navigating long content and complex forms • Conceptualize and construct proper page structure • Review your plan against WCAG high level areas

  32. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Spiral or Agile model: development and test • Build it right with proper markup and structure • Test for well-formed HTML and CSS • Test for WCAG 2.0 compliance • Involve persons with disabilities into user acceptance

  33. WCAG 2.0 integration in your process • Spiral or Agile model: plan the next iteration • Take note of what needs to be addressed and fixed • Bring in third parties to help with trouble issues • Minnesota STAR Program for additional assistance

  34. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 1. Forms • Label tags for ALL input points • Correct tab sequence • Access keys for complex, long and laborious forms that are used frequently • Navigable and able to submit with keyboard

  35. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 2. Document structure • Meaningful page titles • Heading tags • Tags that convey meaning (paragraph, lists, etc.)

  36. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 3. Navigation and links • Consistent navigation (predictable) • Skip to content • Navigating with anchor tags in long bodies of content • Meaningful link text that conveys purpose

  37. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 4. Images and non-text elements • ALT tags for informative images (non-decorative) • Link to descriptions for longer text blocks • Decorative images presented with CSS (not in content) • Contrast ratio between background and text

  38. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 5. Tables • Do NOT use tables to format your document • Tables are for tabular data • Use THEAD/TFOOT tags to convey data relationship • Rely on CSS and avoid depreciated tags

  39. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 6. Mouse and keyboard issues • Test and ensure you can navigate with keyboard only • Do not rely upon mouse clicks • Be cognizant of tedious clicking issues (e.g. menus)

  40. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 7. Client-side to server-side handling • It is OK to use Javascript • Build base-level, server-side functionality first • Add your AJAX/Javascript functionality on top • Have a plan to degrade from client- to server-side • Inform user of user input and changes in page behavior

  41. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 8. Cues, instructions and error handling • Inform and instruct the user • Provide contextual helps and guide user input • Offer intuitive error messages

  42. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 9. Display adaptation • Support multiple browser environments • Text: size, color, contrast, max width, no full justification • Allow user to override formatting

  43. WCAG 2.0 top ten considerations • 10. Site and process context • Breadcrumb navigation • If there are multiple steps, indicate their context • Use title and heading tags to convey site context • Save user’s input/state if session times out • Let the user pick up where they left off • Provide a sitemap

  44. WCAG 2.0 resources Resources WCAG 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ WebAIM accessibility testing http://wave.webaim.org/ How people with disabilities use the web http://www.w3.org/WAI/EO/Drafts/PWD-Use-Web/ Examples used in this presentation http://accessibility.designbymichael.com/examples/

  45. WCAG 2.0 resources • Tools and testing • Must-have Firefox extensions: • WAVE toolbar • Web Developer Toolbar • WCAG Contrast Checker • Fangs Screen Reader Emulator

  46. WCAG 2.0 Q&A Questions? Michael Tangen |web interface designer-developer Office of Enterprise Technology michael.tangen@state.mn.us (651) 201-1045 This presentation was developed in 2010 for the Technology Accessibility project. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Rev 2010-09.03.0947

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