Web Accessibility

Just Fix It!Casey Wright

ITaP Informatics@caseyveronica4

#bweb11

Web Application Programmer , ITaP Informatics

Member, Web Accessibility Committee

Who is this person?

Accessibility info Issues and tipsExciting demosA gift for you!Additional resourcesQ&A

Agenda

“People with disabilities constitute the nation's largest minority group,

and the only group any of us can become a member of at any time. “

Web accessibility…why care?

http://www.disabilityfunders.org/disability-stats-and-facts

Accessibility benefits everyone

Web accessibility…why care?

http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.phphttp://www.nws.noaa.gov/sec508/index.htm

Purdue’s Web Accessibility Policy

Web accessibility…why care?

http://www.purdue.edu/policies/pages/information_technology/v_2_1.shtml

http://www.purdue.edu/webaccessibility/

How can you tackle this enormous project?

Ok, I care. Now what?

Problem: Massive undertaking. Solution: “Baby Steps”

Hurdles? Absolutely.

Problem: No standard plan of attack.

Solution: Create one.◦Easy to do? Not really.

Hurdles? Absolutely.

Problem: Coordination of efforts/progress.

Solution: Wiki-fi-it.

Hurdles? Absolutely.

Problem: Manual scans are painful. Solution: Find an automated scanner.◦http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/complete.

html

Hurdles? Absolutely.

Problem: Image alt text. Solution: Gift for you!

◦Be excited!

Hurdles? Absolutely.

Problem: Videos Solution: Automatic Sync Technologies◦www.automaticsync.com◦YouTube

Hurdles? Absolutely.

Problem: Customer-provided PDFs Solution: Still working on that one….

Hurdles? Absolutely.

Problem: Scanners can’t catch everything.

Solution: Manual checks. Sorry.

Hurdles? Absolutely.

Scan on development or QA sites ONLY◦Unless you block scanners from hitting “delete” links, they WILL delete data

Still need to do manual checks

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Alt508 Checker

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Demo time!

Where can you get your hands on Alt508 Checker?◦www.purdue.edu/mixable Groups > Web Accessibility

Everybody loves freebies!

2011 Web Accessibility Awards◦$1,000 award given to 2 winners per year during 4-year policy implementation

◦Must use monetary award to further efforts in area of accessible web design

◦Nominations due April 22 to Office of Institutional Equity http://www.purdue.edu/ethics/oie/documents/2011WebAccessibilityAwards.pdf

You could win an award!

Web Accessibility Policy◦ http://www.purdue.edu/policies/pages/

information_technology/v_2_1.shtml Web Accessibility Committee

◦ www.purdue.edu/webaccessibility Mixable

◦ www.purdue.edu/mixable > Groups > Web Accessibility

Listserv◦ https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/

webaccessibility-l

Additional resources

Special thanks to:◦James O’Cull – Alt508 Checker◦Marcy Hintzman and the Office of

Institutional Equity◦Web Accessibility Committee◦ITaP Informatics team

Thank you!

Questions?