FUSION 11 Accessibility

Pam Martin
Pam.marin@desire2learn.com

Resources will be available
In this course
In the Fusion LOR
Via her ePortfolio presentation

Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web and Web content.

Students should not have to identify themselves in your course.

Assistive Technology - Assisstive technology

Usinga learning evnironment with a screen reader

A common misconception of readers is that is that you have to listen to the whole page. Student: "I don't have time to listen to the whole page, I skim just like others might."

Fields need to be labeled properly.

It's important that everyone knows about accessibility.


Screen readers
JAWS is the most people screen reader
NVDA free open source (For simulation)

Input devices-many visually disabled don't use mouse

House Contrast stylesheets to increase the overall contrast of the content on a screen

Magnification Sotware--many available through third party

Auditory Disability

Webaim -Great website

insdedeafculture.com
nad.com
webaim.com
deafculture.com

Language and communication -- word choice, becareful of bias. Choose accurate, neutral language that best represents the groups to which refers can ehp to indicate respect.

http://www.sigaccess.org/community/writing_guidelines/

Browser Accessibility Features:
Internet Explorer Accessibility Features
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie7/
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie8/
Firefox Accessibility Features
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Accessibility
Google Chrome Accessibility Features
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/accessibility
Safari Accessibility Features
http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html
Opera Accessibility Features
http://www.opera.com/support/access/

Web Accessibility Standards
Technical specifications, guidelines, and standards for Web practice are constantly being developed. The primary group developing Web standards is W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). W3C is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.
http://www.w3.org/

UNIVERSAL DESIGN (key words accessibility and inclusiveness)

Accessibility Checklists
Once you have an understanding of common accessibility issues, you may find it useful to create or use an Accessibility Checklist. These checklist documents are useful in ensuring that common barriers are avoided, and for creating an inventory of possible issues and their resolutions.
Accessibility Evaluation Tools
Web accessibility evaluation tools can give quick feedback based on your page markup and styling that allows you to quickly identify potential accessibility issues. One such tool is WAVE, a Web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM.
WCAG Guidelines
The W3C Web Accessibility Initiative has developed a set of standards known as WCAG 2.0 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines). Detailed information on the WCAG guidelines and some resources for how to test for, and meet the guidelines, is available on the W3C’s WCAG site.

www.nvda-project.org (free screen reader program)

There should only be one heading and you should use descriptive titles in the headings.

USE MOZILLA FIREFROX so you can use right click, View Fangs

Juicy Studio
Quality Assurance, Luminosity Contrast ratio

RECOMMENDED FONT is SANS-SERIFF

Select text you want to have as a heading, then use the dropbox by the paragraph (next to font on advanced tab) to select the heading assignment (ie Heading 1)or you can use html code (add h1 or h2 code)

Start, programs, accessories, NOTEPAD (to get rid of layered garbage underneath text that makes moving to html funky. So cutcopy from text into notepad and then copy from there to go back to html form.

W3Schools for html code cheat sheets

Unordered lists for bullets!

Don't use "click here" only need description otherwise it is too vague in the link list.

TIP instead of having to go into html view, you can from within the html editor type within the link text to add additional info.

When possible, avoid tables, or at least make sure it is labeled properly.

TABLES: (Within html editor)
right click in cell, table cell, table cell properties, (then change headers/columns)because then you can save in notepad and then copy and change text for future similiar tables (ie assignment schedules)

Can change color code (html) in the style sheet and it will automatically change in all .css

When dealing with the .css changes delete above h1