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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Compliance on the University Libraries Web Portal

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Compliance on the University Libraries Web Portal. John Pardavila Library Systems May 29, 2013. Topics at this Drop-in. Considerations at the Libraries Tools to assure compliance Quick Tips! Easiest ways to be compliant

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Compliance on the University Libraries Web Portal

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  1. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Compliance on the University Libraries Web Portal John Pardavila Library Systems May 29, 2013

  2. Topics at this Drop-in Considerations at the Libraries Tools to assure compliance Quick Tips! Easiest ways to be compliant Resources for ADA Compliance on the web Case Studies

  3. Considerations for BUILDERS • Include a “skip navigation” link at the top of webpages that allows people who use screen readers to ignore navigation links and skip directly to webpage content • Minimize blinking, flashing, or other distracting features

  4. Considerations for BUILDERS • If they must be included, ensure that moving, blinking, or auto-updating objects or pages may be paused or stopped • Design online forms to include descriptive HTML tags that provide persons with disabilities the information they need to complete and submit the forms

  5. Considerations for BUILDERS • Include visual notification and transcripts if sounds automatically play • Provide a second, static copy of pages that are auto-refreshing or that require a timed-response • Use titles, context, and other heading structures to help users navigate complex pages or elements (such as webpages that use frames).

  6. Tools to assure compliance Free Resources – No Excuses! Quicker than checking links! • WAVE editor - http://wave.webaim.org/ • WAVE Firefox / Waterfox pluggin - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/wave-toolbar/

  7. Quick Tips! Easiest ways to be compliant • Images must have text descriptions • Text Formats should be consistent throughout the web sphere • Colors and Font consistencies • Multimediashould have text descriptions whenever possible • Avoid multimedia that requires plugins

  8. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript • Use tags appropriately • <h1-6> for headers • <p> for paragraphs • <div> to separate content • Use CSS Minimum Standards v2.1 to style HTML structure • Avoid Client side scripting whenever possible

  9. Resources for ADA Compliance on the web More ADA compliance help and tricks to serve all of the community at the University Libraries: http://www.ada.gov/pcatoolkit/chap5toolkit.htm For full web based Section 508 standards to keep pages ADA compliant: http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?fuseAction=stdsdoc#Web

  10. Case Studies and Articles about ADA non-compliance Penn State ADA Case • http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/penn-state-accused-of-discriminating-against-blind-students/28154

  11. Searches and Hash Tags • Web ADA compliance, Higher Education and ADA ADA Standards Section 508 • #ADA, #ADAcompliance, #disability compliance, #WAVEAccessibility #Section508

  12. References • http://Section508.gov/ Accessed March 15th, 2013 • http://www.ada.gov/ Accessed March 14, 2013 • Bremer Nash, Nicole. Creating an ADA-compliant website. Accessed March 21st, 2013 from http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/webmaster/creating-an-ada-compliant-website/1425

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