Transcript Accessibility Conference Report

WAC 2010-06-16
Accessibility Conference
Update
Conference details
Aiming for Accessibility Conference
University of Guelph
June 8-9, 2010
http://www.accessconf.open.uoguelph.ca/default.aspx
AODA
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/en/mcss/programs/accessibility/
Web accessibility:
Accessible Information and Communications Standard
Web standards
History:
WCAG 2.0 Level AA
WCAG 2.0 Level A
Current & Future:
WCAG 2.0 Level A & AA Hybrid
WCAG 2.0 Level AA
WCAG 2.0 Level AA
http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
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Techniques and Failures: HTML, CSS, SMIL, Client-side
Scripting, Server-side Scripting, WAI-ARIA
Success Criteria Levels: A, AA (Hidden: AAA)
Sections: Introduction, Sufficient Techniques and Failures,
Advisory Techniques, Conformance Requirements
Waterloo direction
Recommendation to start with Level AA
• Expected future direction of AODA
• High effort to retrofit websites
Expected timelines for new
standards implementation
Clear as mud ...
• Start implementation in 2011
• Achieve compliance for 2013
... but still TBD
Other items
• Plan for accessibility (design, technology, training, effort to retrofit)
• Education (training) is key (e.g. alt tags, meaningful links)
• Validators are not enough (e.g. meaningful links)
• Make web forms accessible (e.g. keyboard navigation must work)
• Avoid Flash (good general rule)
• Test JavaScript for accessibility (and minimize use)
• Remember to caption videos
• Accessible documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint)
• Accessible alternatives (PDFs, web pages/content)