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Perth Web Accessibility Camp 2015Vivienne Conway

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Introduction

• New presentations at W4A 2015

• Upcoming ideas

• The Internet of Things

• Resources provided by W3C for accessibility development and reporting

• A view to the future

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W4A 2015 – Florence, Italy

• This year’s theme – “The Wearable Web”

• May 18 – 20, 2015

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Florence, an incredible experience

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W4A Best Paper Nominees• SmartWrap: seeing datasets with the crowd’s eyes

• End-to-end solution for accessible chemical diagrams

• Understanding design considerations for adaptive user interfaces for accessible pointing with older and younger adults

• Capti-speak: a speech-enabled Web screen reader

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W4A – Best Communication Nominee

• Complexities for practical Web automation

• Unlocking the potential of Web localizers as contributors to image inaccessibility: what do evaluation tools offer?

• Complementing accessibility standards with evidence of commitment and progress

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The Paciello Group Challenge

• A Web based multi-linquist symbol-to-text AAC application

• Refreshable braille oral appliance

• Acrolinx: a controlled-language checker turned into an accessibility evaluation tool for image text alternatives

• A means for communication between deaf and hearing pairs in inclusive educational settings: the Sessai App

• Browser-independent accessible math

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Awards• Best paper award:

o End-to-end solution for accessible chemical diagrams

• John Slatin best communication award:

o Complementing standards by demonstrating commitment and progress

• TPG Accessibility Challenge Judges Award:

o Browser-independent accessible math

• TPG Accessibility Challenge Delegates Award:

o evoGraphs – A jQuery Plugin to Create Web Accessible Graphs

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A refreshable Braille oral appliance

• The RBOA is a refreshable display embedded in an oral retainer and connected to a wireless microphone and through a smart phone application

• an investigation to determine if Braille could be read with the tongue and showed promise for providing deaf persons with assistive technology to assist in understanding spoken language

• Could also be used as a control for any remote controllable technology such as lights, televisions, door locks, climate control and wheelchairs

• Proved that participants could read Braille with their tongue as easily as they could with their non-dominant index finger

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Browser-independent accessible math• Judge’s choice award

• MathPlayer has been re-architected so that any assistive technology (AT) can use it to read math in any browser or other application. This new version enhances many of MathPlayer's existing features and adds unique navigation capabilities and braille math code support.

• E.g. how you could read complex math equations with assistive technology

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evoGraphs – A jQuery Plugin to Create Web Accessible Graphs

• Delegate’s award

• evoGraphs demonstration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnACsbcbUxY)

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W4A papers available for you to read

• ACM publications

• W4A papers (http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2745555)

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Capti-Speak: universally accessible e-Reading

• Capabilities:

o Aggregates content from various sources – Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, Pocket, Web, etc.

o Supports over a dozen content formats: reads HTML, PDF, RTF, DOC, PPT, UPUB, DAISY etc.

o Narrates with high-quality synthetic voices – speaks 26 languages with 150 voices (iOS only)

o Works on iOS, Mac and Windows, synchronises content between devices

o A demonstration of Capti Narrator: (3 mins) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-NUuo--WMQ

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Capti benefits

• Organises content in the form of a playlist

o Listen hands-free and read along if you like

• Simplifies moving between devices:

o Start on 1 and continue on another

• Enables multi-tasking, increases productivity:

o Listen while commuting, exercising, relaxing

• Supports numerous use scenarios:

o Education, employment, entertainment

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S’up

• Created by Grant Douglas who has cerebral palsy and a degree in computer science

• Created a spoon with a lid

• It is ambidextrous, food safe and dishwasher safe, designed to be used in a restaurant without others noticing

• Sup Products demonstration (http://www.sup-products.com/about-us/)

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Programming Expression – An expressive musical instrument

• Musical designer, Vahakn Matossian from Human Instruments has created a new musical instrument that incorporates breath sipping/puffing with 2 control panels and using conductive paint

• Musical Instrument demonstration (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isjpTkzYwlw)

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A new touch-free smartphone

• A touch-free smartphone for people who can’t use their hands

• Controlled by head movements

• User says “open sesame” and then the phone starts following movements on the user’s face

• Clicks are made by staying in 1 place

• You can make phone calls, draw, play games, anything you want

• Sesame-Enable Phone Demonstration (http://sesame-enable.com/)

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The Internet of Things – its more than getting your fridge to order groceries

• Different use cases being considered:

o Making the output of the sensors standardised and available to the accessibility APIs

• Smart watch that has multi functions like tracking activity or blood pressure – allow the user access through a mobile app or Website

• Self-driving cars where the interface in the car may not be accessible but the car could be managed through an app

• Home temperature controls – having a multi-function UI of displaying the temp and setting

o Wheelchair-user may find the thermostat out of reach and the details need to be sent to a mobile or web app

o Blind person needs the data and controls sent to a mobile or web app that is accessible on their mobile device

o Deaf person requires an alert to blink and needs different combinations for devices e.g. door alarm should have a different pattern to the oven timer

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Internet of Things (continued)

• Signage is an important issue

o Airport signs for a person wanting a specific location such as a restaurant. If the person signs in to the Web app, the data can be sent to their navigation on their phone

o How to get different apps working together, using a compatible ontology – presently we have apps to get a taxi, an app for the airline for check-in, an app for the airport for arrival and departures, along with others

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W3C WAI Tutorials

• W3C has proceeded a group of tutorials to assist developers, designer, trainers, content authors and project managers

• Topics include: page structure, menus, images, tables, forms and carousels

• http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/

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WCAG-EM Report Tool

• Developed by W3C WAI to assist people to use the WCAG Evaluation Methodology

• Provides an evaluation report generator following the WCAG-EM and generating a structured report

• http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/report-tool/#/

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W4A 2016

• Montreal, Canada

• Dates: W4A, April 11-13, 2016

o WWW 2015 April 11 – 15, 2016

• Theme for W4A:

o Also includes papers beyond disability and the web including health, low-income, developing countries, language etc.

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How interesting!