A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Web Site Accessibility: Looking At Our Communities Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY URL UKOLN is supported by:

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Introduction We have discussed how well we feel we are doing in terms of Web site accessibility Let us look at the accessibility for a number of sectors of our community: UK University entry points JISC 5/99 project entry points We will then mention possible approaches to checking accessibility E

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk UK University Entry Points Survey of UK University entry points: Published in Ariadne in October 2002 – see Made use of Bobby accessibility tool Analysed 162 University entry points Findings: Only 4 appeared to be compliant with WAI AA compliant (0 P1 or P2 errors) 70 entry points appeared to provide A compliance with no P1 errors

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk JISC 5/99 Projects Survey of entry points for ~40 JISC 5/99 projects: Survey carried out in October 2002 – see Made use of Bobby tool Findings: 24 A compliant, 5 AA compliant and 21 not compliant

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Positive Aspects Some Web sites appear to be successful: DEMOS FAILTE University Of Bristol

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk DEMOS Web Site

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk FAILTE

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk University of Bristol

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Accessibility Testing Tools How can we test accessibility of Web pages: Automated Approaches Use of tools such as Bobby, WAVE, LIFT, etc. Often used for testing individual pages, but bulk testing tools also available Won’t spot all possible errors (e.g. can spot missing ALT tags, but not meaningless ones) Manual Approaches Testing with users Can spot problems which tools won’t find Can be expensive

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Example 1 UKOLN have added a simple interface to various Web-based tools – simply append,tools to a URL such as,bobby or,validate This is implemented using a Web server redirect

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Example 2 The Bobby downloadable application: Can analyse an entire Web site Allows rules to be switched off Is now a licensed product Question If you have a large Web site is it feasible to test accessible by checking individual pages? Question If you have a large Web site is it feasible to test accessible by checking individual pages?

A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Discussion