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‘An Introduction to
Accessibility’ Presentation
Accessibility reviews and training, usable web
site design and development
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What is web accessibility?
• Allowing people with disabilities to be able to
use Web sites more easily
• Disabilities can include:
– Visual – blindness, or short sightedness
– Physical
– Auditory
• Guidance and standards on web accessibility by
the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C)
– Headed by Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World
Wide Web
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Who are affected?
• Millions of people have disabilities that
affect their use of the Web.
– There are 8.6 million registered disabled
people in the UK - 14% of the population
– Two million UK residents have a sight
disability - 4% of the population
– One in 12 men and one in 200 women have
some form of colour blindness - 9% of the UK
population
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Why invest in an Accessible site?
• Financial gains and cost savings from
increased potential market share, search
engine findability, and increased usability
• Reducing risk of legal action resulting in
high legal expenses and negative image
• The public relations benefits of
demonstrating social responsibility
• Accessible web sites also benefits people
without disabilities
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Off line disability aids
• Disabilities are lessened by the following:
• Vision
– Large print books, braille
• Mobility
– Lifts, ramps on buses, etc
• Hearing
– Closed captioning for films, sign language
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On line disability aids
• disabilities are lessened by the following:
• VISION
– Visually-impaired: use browser features to make font
sizes larger or use screen magnification tools
– Blind: screen readers, dynamic Braille printers
– Color-blind: disable style sheets to force usable color
preferences for text colors and page backgrounds
• MOBILITY
– Can’t use mouse – keyboard only - tab
• HEARING
– Textual descriptions or subtitles for video and audio
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Visual accessibility demonstration
• Short sighted people may
need to increase the text
size on their web pages
• Colour blind people turn off
style sheets
• Blind people use screen
readers to interpret web
pages
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Mobility demonstration
• May not be able to use mouse - keyboard
only.
• Navigation using tab
• Access keys
• Alternatives to JavaScript needed. what if
JavaScript is turned off? Use noscript html
tag!
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Making your web site accessible
• To meet the minimum standards (A) you should:
• Use resizable font sizes – relative not absolute
• provide alternatives to:
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Images - in the form of ALT text and LONGDESC
JavaScript - through the <noscript> tag
Flash – provide HTML equivalents
Audio & video - using subtitles or written transcripts
• With hypertext links, use text that makes sense
when read out of context.
• Page structure - Order headings logically, don’t
use styles for headings.
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What next?
• Run accessibility checker of your site:
– http://webxact.watchfire.com/ - you should aim
to be at least W3C A compliant, ideally W3C
AA
• Keep up to date with developments in
accessibility best practice at W3C’s Web
Accessibility Initiative at
http://www.w3.org/WAI/
• Contact www.fishdev.co.uk
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Accessibility challenge!
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Question 1
• Which international organization develops
strategies, guidelines, and resources to
help make the Web accessible to people
with disabilities and who is it headed up
by?
• The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C),
headed up by Tim Berners-Lee
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Question 2
• How many people in the UK are registered
disabled?
• 8.6 million, or 14% of the population
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Question 3
• Give an example of a navigation feature
that someone who cannot use a mouse
would have trouble using on a web page
and which HTML tag would you use to
provide an alternative?
– Roll over/dropdown menus using Javascript.
– The Noscript tag should be used here.
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Question 4
• How would a colour blind person make a
web site with colours they cannot see
readable, and what site structure makes
this possible?
– Turn off style sheets in windows.
– Use CSS in web design to separate content
from design pages
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Question 5
• What are the three levels of W3C
accessibility compliance?
–A
– AA
– AAA
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