Transcript Web Accessibility

Web Accessibility
Opening Day 2006
Presentation available at:
http://ets.fhda.edu/508
Universal Design
• Universal Design General Concepts from
TRACE Research and Development Center
• Universal Design Concepts & Issues from the
Center for Applied Special Technology.
User Accessibility Issues
• The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the
World Wide Web Consortium has an excellent
online document "How People with Disabilities
Use the Web".
• The section on Scenarios of People with
Disabilities Using the Web explains how specific
disabilities affect user access to the web.
User Accessibility Issues
• The Microsoft accessibility site lists Guides by
Impairment that describe the types of assistive
technology solutions for each of 5 disability
groups: Visual Impairments, Hearing
Impairments, Mobility Impairments, Language
Impairments, and Learning Impairments.
User Accessibility Issues
• Browse to IBM’s site to learn about Interacting
with people who are blind, Interacting with
people with mobility impairments, and Interacting
with people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
• The Accessibility Color Wheel allows you to
experience how three color insensitivities are
perceived
Assistive Technology
• The High Tech Center Training Unit (HTCTU) of
the California Community Colleges trains faculty
and staff who work with students with disabilities.
• Assistive Technology
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ZoomText
JAWS
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
Kurzweil 3000
Accessibility Guidelines &
Standards
• The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), a
subgroup of W3C, provides the guidelines for
ensuring content created for the web is
accessible to all users.
Accessibility Guidelines &
Standards
• Section 508 Standards
• Guide to the Section 508 Standards for
Electronic and Information Technology
Website Creation
• WebAIM (Web Accessibility in Mind) created an
easy to use Section 508 Checklist that can be
printed and used as a resource for people
developing web content.
• Web Accessibility for Section 508 Tutorial on Jim
Thatcher’s Web site.
Evaluation & Repair Tools
• Check out some of the evaluation tools listed on
the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative site.
• A-Prompt is an application available for
Windows. Download it from the A-Prompt
download page and install it according to the
directions there.
• Follow the Quick Start Tutorial to learn how this
easy to use program works.
• Wave, now located at WebAIM, offers 4 different
ways to evaluate your web page for accessibility:
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Method 1: Submit the URI of a page
Method 2: Upload a page
Method 3: Install WAVE toolbar in browser
Method 4: Add WAVE bookmarklet to browser
Who to contact: De Anza
• Willie Pritchard
Academic Coordinator
Distance Learning
Center
LCW-102
408-864-8549
[email protected]
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• Mary Parke
Instructional Designer
Distance Learning
Center
LCW-102
408-864-5399
[email protected]
Who to contact: De Anza
• Wayne Chenoweth
Instructor, Assistive
Technology
Computer Access Lab
AT 203
408-864-5816
chenowethwayne@dean
za.edu
• Sean Keegan
Training Specialist
High Tech Center
Training Unit
408-996-6044
[email protected]
Who to Contact: Foothill
• Judy Baker
Director, FH Global
Access
Room 3611
650-949-7749
[email protected]
• Steven Sum
Alternate Media
Specialist
Room 5901
650-949-7673
[email protected]