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Experience Sharingon
Web Accessibility
Danny HuiSenior Manager (Web Development)
Information Services Office24 October 2014
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Why make our website accessible?
It is essential for the University's equality and diversity
It is our social responsibility
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Why make our website accessible?
Web accessibility focuses on people with all types of disabilities: visual auditory physical neurological cognitive
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Why make our website accessible?
Web accessibility also benefits other people… people with temporary disabilities elderly native speakers
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Why make our website accessible?
Web accessibility makes websites more compatible with… mobile devices new web browsers older web browsers browsers with restrictions low bandwidth connections
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Why make our website accessible?
Web accessibility helps to build better websites consistent design within a website better usability easier to navigate optimized for search engines
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Why make our website accessible?
Web accessibility also benefits our team accessibility guidelines are well
established standards for development team to adopt
codes are clean and tidy easier to be managed by technical staff easier to be manipulated as templates
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Experience sharing on Web accessibility
CUHK website formally started to include web accessibility in 2009 followed WCAG 1.0 Level AA during a
revamp release effort (or cost) was minimal, because web
accessibility helped to build a well-structured website
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Experience sharing on Web accessibility
CUHK first participated in the Web Accessibility Recognition Scheme in 2012/13 also a revamp release previous version was web accessible developers have past experiences supports from OGCIO in
evaluating our website
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Experience sharing on Web accessibility
Web accessibility involvement: Technical Design Content
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Provide sufficient time for users to read the content and operate the function
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Provide sufficient colour contrast
Experience sharing on Web accessibility
Before After
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Provide clear and informative links Avoid using “more”
e.g. use “more information on enrollment” or “enrollment information”
Avoid using abbreviations e.g. not to use alt=“eng” / alt=“chi”, use “alt=“English version” / alt=“繁體中文版本”
Experience sharing on Web accessibility
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Provide meaningful title, summary or description for tables
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Able to skip repetitive blocks
Experience sharing on Web accessibility
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Provide input assistance and error identification and description
Experience sharing on Web accessibility
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Conclusion
Web accessibility is not just the developers’ responsibility is a continuous improvement process of a
website allows your website to reach a wider
range of audience allows you to build better websites
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Thank You