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Segment 2: Web Standards & Accessibility. Ted Drake, Yahoo Accessibility Lab Slideshare.net/ 7mary4. What does an Accessible Site Designed with Web Standards Look Like?. Topics. Features of an accessible site designed with Web Standards? Beyond the blind When web standards is not enough
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Segment 2: Web Standards & Accessibility Ted Drake, Yahoo Accessibility Lab Slideshare.net/7mary4
What does an Accessible Site Designed with Web Standards Look Like?
Topics • Features of an accessible site designed with Web Standards? • Beyond the blind • When web standards is not enough • Mobile Users
Solid • Versatile • Semantic Data • Device Independent
New Visual & Auditory Concerns • Expandable content • Editable text • Drag and Drop • Gestures • Closed Captions • Regularly updated content • Dialogue boxes • Keyboard focus control
Drag and Drop Provide non-mouse alternative
Expandable Content • Button for expand/contract • Place focus into expanded area • Tell user the container can be expanded
Live Regions • Define regions of the page that update automatically. • Should the screen reader user get a notification every time it changes?
Cognitive and Physical Concerns • Memory loss • Different cognitive levels of understanding content. • What helps some will distract others • Dyslexia • Keyboard navigation • Voice recognition
Voice Recognition • Dragon Naturally Speaking • Images with text must have matching alt text. • Don’t autofocus form elements • Avoid multiple links to different URLs with the same text.
Avoid long sentences • Avoid large blocks of text • Avoid justified alignment • Give the user white space • Dyslexie: font designed for dyslexia
iPhone and iPad • Full featured VoiceOver • Safari browser supports HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript • Custom gestures will conflict with VoiceOver. • No Flash support
Android, Blackberry, Nokia • Screen reader is available, but not as sophisticated as VoiceOver • Use clean, structural markup for better performance • Android’s browser is full featured. Blackberry and Nokia are not as robust.
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