1 Testing Web site Accessibility Review of disabilities, legislation & techniques

2 What we’ll cover Web accessibility overview Accessibility tools Break out session Summarise findings Accessibility toolkit

3 Web Accessibility Overview Disabilities Legislation ICT Compliance

4 What is Web site Accessibility? Assistive technologies TTS (text-to-speech) browsers Text-only browsers Voice-enabled browsers Keyboard or mouse commands Braille devices Screen magnification

5 Why is it Important? More people accessing the web Disabled : 10% to 20% Average age of population in many countries is increasing Carry-over benefits for other users Legal requirements

6 Disabilities Low Vision Hearing Motor Skills Cognitive Abilities Low Grade Technology

7 Low Vision Background colour Contrast Colour scheme can be over-ridden Avoid Graphics Italics Underline CAPITALISATION

8 Hearing Captions Transcripts

9 Motor Skills Key Tabs <IMG SRC="banner.gif" ALT="Navigation banner" WIDTH="580" HEIGHT="21"BORDER="0" usemap="#bannermap “ > <AREA SHAPE="rect" HREF="internal.html" ALT="Employee information" COORDS="506,2 577,18" TABINDEX= “ 3 “ > <AREA SHAPE="rect" HREF="news.html" ALT="News and events" COORDS="186,2 303,18" TABINDEX="1 “ > <AREA SHAPE="rect" HREF="searches.html" ALT="Search" COORDS="311,2 475,18" TABINDEX="2">

10 Cognitive Abilities Use clear language Simple Navigation Write for the web Use non-text examples

11 Low Grade Technology Bandwidth Old Machines Old Browsers

12 Legislation History What’s Affected? Responsibilities

13 Legislation History Disability Discrimination Act of 1995 Special Educational Needs and Disability Act September 2002 ‘Reasonable Adjustments’ Assistive Technologies Accessible Services

14 What’s Affected - Accessible ICT Departmental, Faculty, Institutional Web sites Intranets VLEs & MLEs Information Gateways Resource portals Web-based applications any digital resource

15 Responsibilities – in theory ‘Reasonable Adjustments’

16 Responsibilities – in practice Validate using available tools W3C Guideline compliant Accessibility Policy in place

17 Accessibility Tools Preliminary Review Conformance Evaluation Automated Evaluation

18 Preliminary Review Turn off images Turn off sound Change font size Set screen resolution Change display colour Use tab keys

19 Conformance Evaluation Images & animations Image maps Multimedia/Scripts & applets Hypertext links Page organisation Frames Tables

20 Validation Tools W3C Validation Service HTML and CSS validation service Bobby CAST Automated Accessibility service Lynx Checker A tool that simulates a text-based web browser Vischeck A tool that simulates colour-blindness

21 Break out session Your HE Website Select 3 key pages (home, prospectus, other) Preliminary Review Conformance Evaluation Automated Evaluation

22 Techniques to keep in mind Provide text equivalents for all non-text elements Provide summaries of tables Organise content clearly Provide alternative content for all plug-in elements

23 Accessibility Policy We are committed to ensuring accessibility of our Web sites for people with disabilities. New and updated Web content produced by us organization will conform to W3C/WAI's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Conformance Level A…

24 Web site help

25 Prioritise Compliance Home page and high-traffic pages All new pages Medium-traffic pages longer-term goal of overall compliance

26 Accessibility Toolkit Resources handout Web site evaluation checklist Preliminary review Conformance evaluation Automated evaluation

27 Thank you Questions…?