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Empowering Digital Accessibility: The Role of Mobile Web Standards

Welcome to the Digital Accessibility Centre, a not-for-profit social enterprise led by experienced professionals, many of whom have disabilities themselves. Our mission is to ensure that all mobile web platforms are accessible to everyone. We promote the use of Web Standards that enhance innovation and good coding practices. In this presentation, we cover the importance of Mobile Web Accessibility, discuss key guidelines like WCAG 2.0 and Mobile Web Best Practices, and provide strategies for integrating accessibility into your digital products.

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Empowering Digital Accessibility: The Role of Mobile Web Standards

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  1. Welcome Presentation by Gavin Evansand Jaime Purvis

  2. Who are we? The Digital Accessibility Centre is a Social Enterprise – limited by guarantee and operating on a not-for-profit basis. Most of our employees are people with disabilities and some have over 10 years experience in the field of Digital Accessibility on multiple platforms. Our business is…… Digital Product Accessibility

  3. What is Mobile Web Accessibility? Ensuring that all mobile web based platforms and applications are accessible to ALL regardless of disability “It’s all about empowering developers to use Web Standards that reduce bandwidth, invite innovation and promote good coding practices across the Web.” [Opera, 2013]

  4. Guidelines Sets of guidelines created to help users with disabilities to experience the web as fully as non-disabled people. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) Mobile Web Best practices (MWBP) Relationship between Mobile Web Best Practices and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

  5. Mobile Accessibility • 62 W3C Mobile Best Practices • 7 sections covered by WCAG 2.0 • 15 sections partially related to WCAG 2.0 • 40 sections Mobile compliance only

  6. What types of access issues do you need to take into consideration? Physical Cognitive Hearing Vision

  7. Blind Users

  8. Low Vision Users

  9. People with Mobility Impairments

  10. People with Hearing Impairments

  11. People with Cognitive Impairments There are many different types of cognitive impairment Reading age may be lower May be easily distracted Dyslexia needs to be considered

  12. Mobile Accessibility for Better Connected 14 Criteria that accessibility for Better Connected is measured upon • Website delivers a mobile dedicated design • Page titles • Heading Structure • Limit scrolling to one direction • Content reachable in sequence • Clear labels and instructions for forms • Meaningful links in context • Image alt text • Colour contrast • Font sizes • Avoidance of movement on pages • Auto starting audio/video • Flashing content • Non-HTML documents

  13. How do you get this done? Choose an accessibility champion Write a mobile policy Include references to current guidelines (WCAG 2.0) (MWBP) Involve project managers, developers, content authors Audit or test through all stages of the process Get expert help or certify content Get Users involved, Get Users involved, Get users involved

  14. Live Demo Jaime Purvis – iOS and VoiceOver

  15. The end result…Usable by everyone

  16. Digital Accessibility CentreStephen Lloyd Suite, Llan Coed House,Llandarcy, Neath, SA10 6FG.Telephone: 01792 815267info@digitalaccessibilitycentre.orgwww.digitalaccessibilitycentre.org Thank you

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