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THE BUSINESS CASE FOR INTERNET ACCESSIBILITY AND WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU Thomas Logan, Chief Technology Officer – HiSoftware
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR INTERNET ACCESSIBILITY AND WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU
Thomas Logan, Chief Technology Officer – HiSoftware
Overview WCAG 2.0
What Why How
Overview
HTMLXMLWCAG
What is W
CAG 2.0?
EvolutionW
hat is WCAG 2.0?
WCAG 1.0 Section 508
BITV(Germany)
JIS x8341-3
(Japan)
Ministerial Decree(Italy)
PAS 78(UK)
WCAG 2.0
Need for IT Accessibility
Increasing Disabled
Population Worldwide
Internet Access as a Basic Right
Greater Awareness of
Rights of People with Disabilities
Success of Section 508 and
Similar Laws
Why W
CAG 2.0?
WCAG 2.0
Why W
CAG 2.0?
WCAG 2.0
Why W
CAG 2.0?
WCAG 2.0
Why W
CAG 2.0?
Why W
CAG 2.0?
Principles
Guidelines
Success Criteria
Techniques
Challenge 1: Different Terminology & Taxonomy
Guidelines
Checkpoints
Techniques
Why W
CAG 2.0?Challenge 2: Overlapping Techniques
Guideline 1
Success Criteria 1
Technique 1
Technique 2
Success Criteria 2
Technique 3
Technique 4
HISOFTWARE COMPLIANCE SHERIFFAutomating WCAG 2.0 Compliance
How to M
eet WCAG 2.0?
A Complex Problem…Solved with Automation
Repeatable
Practical
Measurable
• Automated checks for International standards
• Easily customized by your staff to meet your specific regulatory governance requirements
• Repeatable testing incorporated into the content life-cycle
• Reduces time & money spent on manual testing / custom solutions
• Standardizing testing takes the guesswork out of content compliance
• Scalable - include only the compliance options you need
• Provides visibility to compliance issues across the enterprise (Executive to developer)
• Tracks site compliance over time• Automated monitoring/auditing to
keep content compliant
Deliver highest standards compliance...automatically
How to M
eet WCAG 2.0?
Built In Checkpoints Customizable
Testing Compliance Level
Testing Specific Guideline
Testing WCAG2 Best Practices
• Start with most common issues that exist on site– Page Templates– Style Sheets
• Meet Compliance Level A first• Focus on key scenarios/pages • Group related manual test work• Document work to demonstrate process
Identifying Common Issues
• Count number of occurrences for all guidelines
Identifying Common Issues
• Count number of occurrences for specific guideline
Identifying Common Issues
Compliance for Key Scenarios
Manual Testing
• Warnings and Visual checks require manual inspection
• Use Result Revision Wizard to mark content• Audit trail for who and when issue was
verified
Reporting / Documentation
• Manual and Automated verification roll up for one central report
CSS Scanning
CSS Scanning – Error Highlighting
• Errors Highlighted on Page
Scanning – Error Highlighting
• Errors Highlighted on Page
User Variables
• Customize multiple checkpoints at once2.4.3 Focus Order2.4.7 Focus Visible 3.2.1 On Focus
User Variables / Customize Rules
User Variables
WCAG 2.0 Wrap-Up
• Automation is a necessity to organize the work for verifying WCAG2 Compliance
• Manual verification is unavoidable• Prioritizing key scenarios and documenting
progress are crucial• WCAG 2 features are constantly evolving as
new customer scenarios evolve
Raising the Bar on Proactive Content Compliance
Periodic Monitoring and Reporting
Checking Content onDemand
Checking Content Before Posting as Part of the SharePoint Workflow
Making SharePoint Infrastructure Compliant
How to M
eet WCAG 2.0?
ALT Text Missing
• People working with disabled colleagues always forget to put alt text on the images in their documents making them non-compliant and usable
• The Compliance Sheriff workflow lets you educate your enterprise and guide users to include the necessary information to make documents easy to use for all users
User Uploads Document
Email Notification
Accessibilty ALT Text
Accessibilty ALT Text
Accessibilty ALT Text
Accessibilty ALT Text
Accessibilty ALT Text
Insufficient Color Contrast
• People in an office environment often highlight or use their own conventions for marking information. Vision impairments are very common. The Web content accessibility guidelines include clear rules for color contrast settings.
• The Compliance Sheriff check scan lets the document creator know if the content will be difficult to see for users with vision impairments
How to M
eet WCAG 2.0?
Color Contrast
