1. How to tell if a company can produce accessible web sites Sandy Feldman Inclusive Media and Design

2. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (the AODA)

3. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind - Leviticus 19:14

4. “a complex phenomenon, reflecting an interaction between features of a person’s body and features of the society in which he or she lives” - World Health Organization

5. “Light bulbs are assistive technology for the vision dependent” -Tom Dekker

6. “Best viewed in Netscape 2”

7. The World Wide Web Consortium (w3) sets standards for the Web

8. 1997 The w3 established the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group

9. “ Anyone over 5'8" is wasting material ” -Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 –1959

10. AODA Time Line Summary of the key dates: 2012 – Phase in begins 2013 – public sector organizations (hospitals, municipalities, colleges and universities) comply 2013 and 2015 – private and non-profit organizations required to comply

11. The tools to pick the team

12. POUR Perceivable Operable Understanda ble Robust

13. PERCEIVABLE they’ve got to know it’s there

14. OPERABLE it’s got to work

15. UNDERSTANDABLE it has to make sense

16. ROBUST it can’t fall apart under pressure

17. 5 easy tests for web site accessibility

18. The first two tests are easy to do using your regular browser.

19. 1. The tab test

20. 2. Links that make sense out of context

21. The next three tests will need free web based utilities

22. 3. Headings create structure

23. 4. Semantic code

24. 5. Valid code

25. No code errors Makes sense without added styles Works without a mouse Structured by headings Has meaningful link text

26. Test pages in your browser and using free web based utilities

27. SUMMARY

28. Thank You. Sandy Feldman sandyfeldman@inclusivemedia. ca