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Web Site Accessibility: Looking At Our Communities Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY Email [email protected] URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN is supported by: A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk E Introduction We have discussed how well we feel we are doing in terms of Web site accessibility Let us look at the accessibility for a number of sectors of our community: • UK University entry points • JISC 5/99 project entry points We will then mention possible approaches to checking accessibility A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk UK University Entry Points Survey of UK University entry points: • Published in Ariadne in October 2002 – see <http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue33/ web-watch/> • Made use of Bobby accessibility tool • Analysed 162 University entry points Findings: • Only 4 appeared to be compliant with WAI AA compliant (0 P1 or P2 errors) • 70 entry points appeared to provide A compliance with no P1 errors A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk JISC 5/99 Projects Survey of entry points for ~40 JISC 5/99 projects: • Survey carried out in October 2002 – see <http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/ surveys/web-10-2002/> • Made use of Bobby tool Findings: • 24 A compliant, 5 AA compliant and 21 not compliant A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Positive Aspects Some Web sites appear to be successful: • DEMOS • FAILTE • University Of Bristol A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk DEMOS Web Site http://www.demos.ac.uk/access/demos.html A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk FAILTE http://www.failte.ac.uk/ A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk University of Bristol http://www.bris.ac.uk/ A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Accessibility Testing Tools How can we test accessibility of Web pages: Automated Approaches • Use of tools such as Bobby, WAVE, LIFT, etc. • Often used for testing individual pages, but bulk testing tools also available • Won’t spot all possible errors (e.g. can spot missing ALT tags, but not meaningless ones) Manual Approaches • Testing with users • Can spot problems which tools won’t find • Can be expensive A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Example 1 UKOLN have added a simple interface to various Web-based tools – simply append ,tools to a URL such as ,bobby or ,validate This is implemented using a Web server redirect A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Example 2 The Bobby downloadable application: • Can analyse an entire Web site • Allows rules to be switched off • Is now a licensed product Question If you have a large Web site is it feasibleA centre to test accessible by checking individual pages? of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk Discussion A centre of expertise in digital information management www.ukoln.ac.uk