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The Business case for internet accessibility and why it matters to you

Thomas Logan, Chief Technology Officer – HiSoftware. The Business case for internet accessibility and why it matters to you. Overview. Overview WCAG 2.0. What. Why. How. What is WCAG 2.0?. HTML XML WCAG. What is WCAG 2.0?. Evolution. WCAG 1.0. Section 508. BITV (Germany).

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The Business case for internet accessibility and why it matters to you

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  1. Thomas Logan, Chief Technology Officer – HiSoftware The Business case for internet accessibility and why it matters to you

  2. Overview Overview WCAG 2.0 • What • Why • How

  3. What is WCAG 2.0? HTML XML WCAG

  4. What is WCAG 2.0? Evolution • WCAG 1.0 • Section 508 • BITV • (Germany) • JIS x8341-3 • (Japan) • Ministerial Decree • (Italy) • PAS 78 • (UK) • WCAG 2.0

  5. Why WCAG 2.0? • Internet Access as a Basic Right • Greater Awareness of Rights of People with Disabilities • Increasing Disabled Population Worldwide • Success of Section 508 and Similar Laws • Need for IT Accessibility

  6. Why WCAG 2.0? WCAG 2.0

  7. Why WCAG 2.0? WCAG 2.0

  8. Why WCAG 2.0? WCAG 2.0

  9. Why WCAG 2.0? Challenge 1: Different Terminology & Taxonomy

  10. Why WCAG 2.0? Challenge 2: Overlapping Techniques • Technique 1 • Success Criteria 1 • Technique 2 • Guideline 1 • Technique 3 • Success Criteria 2 • Technique 4

  11. How to Meet WCAG 2.0? Automating WCAG 2.0 Compliance HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff

  12. How to Meet WCAG 2.0? A Complex Problem…Solved with Automation Deliver highest standards compliance...automatically • Repeatable • Automated checks for International standards • Easily customized by your staff to meet your specific regulatory governance requirements • Repeatable testing incorporated into the content life-cycle • Practical • Reduces time & money spent on manual testing / custom solutions • Standardizing testing takes the guesswork out of content compliance • Scalable - include only the compliance options you need • Measurable • Provides visibility to compliance issues across the enterprise (Executive to developer) • Tracks site compliance over time • Automated monitoring/auditing to keep content compliant

  13. Built In Checkpoints Customizable

  14. Testing Compliance Level

  15. Testing Specific Guideline

  16. Testing WCAG2 Best Practices • Start with most common issues that exist on site • Page Templates • Style Sheets • Meet Compliance Level A first • Focus on key scenarios/pages • Group related manual test work • Document work to demonstrate process

  17. Identifying Common Issues • Count number of occurrences for all guidelines

  18. Identifying Common Issues • Count number of occurrences for specific guideline

  19. Identifying Common Issues

  20. Compliance for Key Scenarios

  21. Manual Testing • Warnings and Visual checks require manual inspection • Use Result Revision Wizard to mark content • Audit trail for who and when issue was verified

  22. Reporting / Documentation • Manual and Automated verification roll up for one central report

  23. CSS Scanning

  24. CSS Scanning – Error Highlighting • Errors Highlighted on Page

  25. Scanning – Error Highlighting • Errors Highlighted on Page

  26. User Variables • Customize multiple checkpoints at once2.4.3 Focus Order2.4.7 Focus Visible 3.2.1 On Focus

  27. User Variables / Customize Rules

  28. User Variables

  29. WCAG 2.0 Wrap-Up • Automation is a necessity to organize the work for verifying WCAG2 Compliance • Manual verification is unavoidable • Prioritizing key scenarios and documenting progress are crucial • WCAG 2 features are constantly evolving as new customer scenarios evolve

  30. How to Meet WCAG 2.0? Raising the Bar on Proactive Content Compliance • Periodic Monitoring and Reporting • Checking Content onDemand • Checking Content Before Posting as Part of the SharePoint Workflow • Making SharePoint Infrastructure Compliant

  31. ALT Text Missing • People working with disabled colleagues always forget to put alt text on the images in their documents making them non-compliant and usable  • The Compliance Sheriff workflow lets you educate your enterprise and guide users to include the necessary information to make documents easy to use for all users

  32. User Uploads Document

  33. Email Notification

  34. Accessibilty ALT Text

  35. Accessibilty ALT Text

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  38. Accessibilty ALT Text

  39. Insufficient Color Contrast • People in an office environment often highlight or use their own conventions for marking information. Vision impairments are very common. The Web content accessibility guidelines include clear rules for color contrast settings.   • The Compliance Sheriff check scan lets the document creator know if the content will be difficult to see for users with vision impairments

  40. How to Meet WCAG 2.0? Color Contrast

  41. Questions • Thomas Logan (t.logan@hisoftware.com) • Chief Technology Officer

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