UPA Minnesota

UPA MN Meeting Presentation Handout - January 10, 2002

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Designing for Accessibility

• Visual Impairments
  • Blindness
  • Low vision
  • Color-blindness

• Hearing Impairments
• Mobility Impairments
  • Fine motor control
  • Mouth stick or head wands
  • Puff and sip switches
    • Keyboard access
• Cognitive Impairments
  • Simulation site http://www.webaim.org/tutorials/simulations/cogsim
• Mental Processing Disorders
  • Seizures, 2Hz - 55Hz flicker rate

Two Primary Accessibility Standards:

• Section 508 Guidelines http://www.section508.gov/final_text.html
  • Subpart B -- Technical Standards
    • 1194.21 Software applications and operating systems.
    • 1194.22 Web-based intranet and internet information and applications.16 rules.
• Web Accessibility Initiative http://www.w3.org/WAI/

Performing Accessibility Assessments

Accessibility Testing Tools

• Free Tools
  • Bobby
  • The WAVE
  • A-Prompt
  • Dreamweaver Extensions
• Online Tools
  • Bobby
  • The WAVE
  • WebABLE Accessibility Monitor
• Commercial Products
  • InFocus
  • PageScreamer
  • AccVerify, AccRepair, AccMonitor
  • WebABLE Accessibility Monitor

Assistive Technologies

• Screen Readers
  • Full-featured screen readers (links are to external sites):
    • JAWS for Windows
    • Window Eyes
    • Emacspeak for Linux
    • outSPOKEN for Windows and Macintosh
    • ZoomText Level 2
  • Web content Readers (links are to external sites):
    • IBM Home Page Reader
    • Connect Outloud
• Screen Enlargers
  • Full-featured screen enlargers (links are to external sites) :
    • ZoomText
    • MAGic
    • VisAbility
  • Web content enlarger (links are to external sites) :
    • Opera
• Input Devices
  • Madentec Limited, assistive tools
  • Rehab Tool
  • Ablenet, assistive tools for children

Other Accessibility Web site Links

• Microsoft Accessibility, Technology for Everyone http://microsoft.com/enable/
• W3C
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
• Web Accessibility in Mind http://www.webaim.org/
• Minnesota State Guidelines http://www.ot.state.mn.us/ot_files/handbook/guidline/guide19-1.html
• Accessibility Tutorials http://todl.anteon.com/508/asp/lessons.asp?courseid=aw