Accessibillity Challenges and Innovations for Open Hack EU 2011

Saturday, May 14, 2011

Accessibility is...

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Aaron "Wheelz" Fotheringham landed the world's first double backflip on a wheelchair on August 26, 2010.Filmed: Dave Metty Brandon Schmidt, Edited: Joshua Zuckerhttp://aaronfotheringham.com http://campwoodward.com

Leveling the playing field



Our goal is to give everyone equal access to information, tools, jobs, and activities. We acknowledge there may be different methods to achieve tasks, but they are possible.

Removing Barriers



Don’t break the web by creating an application that is not accessible. Avoid “shortcuts” that assume the user can see, hear, and/or has full mobility.

Universal Design



produce buildings, products and environments that are inherently accessible to both the able-bodied and the physically disabled.Apple products do a great job at this.don’t think a,b,c, i.e. high contrast or low contrast. Think about how you can provide a range of contrast.Provide functionality for hover, active, focus.

Who makes it accessible?



Lainey Feingold is an attorney that works with companies to improve their products accessibility.

for instance, braille credit card machines at Target and other stores.

She says advocates and champions are needed for accessibility changes

Advocates Refuse Barriers

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Advocates, she explained, are people with disabilities that are not satisfied with having to work around barriers to entry.

They demand equal access, whether that is an accessible web form, ATMs with audio feedback, or tactile point of sale devices that allow a visually impaired shopper to use a credit card at a store’s cash register.

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Champions make it happen

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Champions are people within organizations that understand the problems and are devoted to implementing the changes.

Some people are both advocates and champions.

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It’s our job to avoid upsetting advocates in the first place. We are also the champions that listen to the advocates and fix the problems.

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocad123/

Make it Accessible



The following slides discuss basic accessible web development concepts.

Lady Gaga stuns the Grammys


Image from Getty Images

Lady Gaga performs “Born This Way” while emerging from a large egg-shaped

pod


Lady Gaga stuns the Grammys


This is appropriate alt text


This video shows what it sounds like when the alt attribute is missing. This bug has been fixed.

<bu$on>Sign In</bu$on>

<a>Cancel</a>



Don’t use a link for a button.at least add role=”button”you can style a button to look like a link for UED


Name Type Taste

Vişinată Liqueur Sour Cherry

Turtă dulce Dessert Ginger Bread

mămăligă Vegetable Corn

tobă Meat Pork Sausage

<th scope=”col”>

</th>

<th scope=”row”>

</th>


add scope=”row | col” to your th cellsscreen readers will announce the header before the appropriate cell. th[scope=”row”] {color:pink} allows you to style row headers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%9Finat%C4%83

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C5%9Finat%C4%83

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turt%C4%83_dulce&action=edit&redlink=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Turt%C4%83_dulce&action=edit&redlink=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tob%C4%83&action=edit&redlink=1

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tob%C4%83&action=edit&redlink=1

<label for=”fname”>First Name</label><input id=”fname” name=”fname” type=”text”>

Label Your Input



Use a label for each form input. Explicit binding via for+id will work in all browsers.Hidden label with aria-label=””, aria-labelledby=””, or possibly alt=”” on input.

ARIAAccessible Rich Internet Applications

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ARIA allows us to define the application like interactions for web pages.



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http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgoyette/

Use ARIA Today

• Landmarks: role=”search”, role=”main”

• Function: role=”button”

• Labels: aria-label=”Search Term”

• State: aria-invalid=”true”



Visit the accessibility lab’s aria library for more information: http://yaccessibilityblog.com/library/tag/aria

Search with ARIA


Mobile

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iphones and ipads have great accessibility features.They are rapidly becoming the preferred technology for many disabilities, i.e. blind, autism, cerebral palsy...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StI0iIufJzkThis video shows how the Southwest Airlines app sounds. They use custom buttons without labels.

Innovative Solutions



Traumatic Brain Injury

• Soldiers

• Sports Injuries

• Crashes

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short term memory lossrequire repetitive instructionsavoid confusion



http://www.flickr.com/photos/pushbuttonpulllever/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pushbuttonpulllever/

Short Term Memory Loss Hacks

• Re-Education

• Workforce transition

• Resources aggregator



application that restores basic personal knowledgeapplications that storyboard workspace tasks, such as replacing toner, creating spreadsheets

Readability.comYahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessibility.Yahoo.Com | @yahooaccess | Facebook.com/YahooAccessibility


Readability is a browser plugin that simplifies a pageit removes images, navigation, etcuser can personalize font size, background color, and optional resource link list

http://www.readability.com













Photo Dialer


this is a fairly easy application that lets user make phone calls via the images in their contacts rather than names and phone numbersThis can integrate with phone’s contact list for very easy dialing.

Memory Loss



slide shows to feature family and friends with namesmental games, Daily event journalsGrowing population with dementia and Alzheimer's

Non-Visual Innovations



In Plain Text?



translate significant value changes into a sentence. what did it start/end at? Charts give instant recognition of history, how can this be in text?Finance, science, math, politics, and any other data source

Audio Description Tool


Text to Speech + Flipboard


build an app that expands the links from your friends twitter, facebook feeds, as well as your favorite rss feed and then uses built in text to speech engines to provide audio for your car.

Directions



How can a blind user navigate the city when they cannot see the map/street namesLocation saver - find way back to parking/bus spot

DeafHacks

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/ingmar/

Sound Detector

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detect sirens, alarms, and other audio signalsclosed captioningsign language interpreting and video repository/translations

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/

TwitterDeaf Twitter



user creates short video, uploads to flickr/post to twitter. Interface also tracks replies, retweets, etc.plays video inline on phone/computerthis could also work for blind users: audio instead of video

Physical Challenges

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paralysis, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, stroke, age related, Parkinson's



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Site Scanner



Site scanner by the Yahoo! prototype team: fix the difficulties of using a scanning keyboard to navigate a web page.allows navigation with a single button pressuse space bar to start and navigate a page. demo with: http://nexpace.com/sandbox/scanner/bookmarklet/



Communication


Communication Tools


Pic to Speech is an assisted communication device for the android. It allows customization of the icons and translations.DDweb provides an online environment http://ddweb.developingmindssoftware.com/site/Prologue2go is a popular ipad app

http://ddweb.developingmindssoftware.com/site/

http://ddweb.developingmindssoftware.com/site/

Support Social NetworkYahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessibility.Yahoo.Com | @yahooaccess | Facebook.com/YahooAccessibility


social networks for the individuals and their support network.journal for daily activities, moods, healthcommunications amongst teachers, parents, doctors, etc

If it ain’t broke...Fix it anyway!



Not all accessibility applications were built to solve an accessibility problemcolor detector used by blind for imagining colors of environmentreal time video chat used for sign language chat roomsgoogle goggles for determining money values

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Ask yourself what if:you couldn’t see the difference between red, green, yellowthere was no hoveryou can’t remember the beginning of an articleyou know what to say but can’t speak



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You are the Champion!



Visit the Yahoo Accessibility Lab’s Blog

Accessibility.Yahoo.Com



Accessibility Innovations and Challenges

Ted DrakeBucharest, May 2011


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