Need forwebaccessibility final

Need for Web Accessibility in Developing Countries Yahoo! Initiatives
By Srinivasu ChakravarthulaAccessibility Manager

Internet and its usage
Applications
Education Research Business
Travel
Shop Entertainment Social Networking Music Matrimony
Users:
Student, parent, teacher, professionals, government, senior citizens… and everyone!

Users of internet also
includes people with
special needs

Statistics…

Some facts…
As per WHO, there are about 600 million people with disabilities across the world
In India alone, there are about 70 million
There is a rapid development in the area of assistive technology industry!

Disability and types of disabilities
Unable to perform a particular task
It can be a temporary or permanent
Can occur either by birth or by accident
Situational Disability
Oops! My mouse stopped working
Text is too small on this webpage
Functional Disability
Visually impaired
Mobility impaired
Hard of hearing
Learning disability
Autism, CP

How People with Disabilities Use Computer
Screen readers
Screen magnifiers
On-screen keyboard
Track ball
Switch
Ergonomic Keyboard
Refreshable Braille Display

Web is more useful
to people with
disabilities

Deepa Narasimhan, Graphic Designer, EMC
As far as I use the On screen
keyboard, its easy on all website.
Maybe we need a better voice
recognition software which can
use on computers for typing &
browsing websites. Which would
help people with sever
conditions, as few people with no
hands (amputees) will find this
great way to browse the internet.

Case studies continued… Artur Ortega
The internet allows me as a blind person
to get access to services and information
without any help by anyone which
wouldn't be even be possible or very
difficult in a physical world. The internet
creates new opportunities and creates a
full new independency for persons with
disabilities.
I really miss the approach of a great part
of the private sector to embrace
accessibility. Only some very innovative
companies like Yahoo! are taking the first
steps to even make web 2.0 applications
accessible and breaking into new
dimensions of accessibility. I would love if
more and more companies would follow
this great example.

Yahoo! Initiatives

Why Yahoo! cares for accessibility?
Yahoo! is a global web company
Around 600 million users visit Yahoo!
Approximately 200 million world wide and 76 million from India visit our properties related to Emerging Markets.
Yahoo!’s presence include

Our mindset…
We think for all!
We sensitize our teams
We train our teams in the area of assistive technology and accessibility

Accessibility Lab
Accessibility Labs at Sunnyvale and Bangalore are equipped with different assistive technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, Track ball, Refreshable Braille Display, Big Twist Switch, Voice Recognition software etc.

Our Team
Alan Brightman, Sandeep Datar, Victor Tsaran, Srinivasu Chakravarthula and Artur Ortega

Accessibility Task Force and SIG
Core Accessibility team
Accessibility Task Force includes members from
User Experience Design
Quality Engineering
Front End Engineering
SE & O
Learning and Development

Accessibility is considered right at the design stage

What we do?
Conduct user studies
Involve people with disabilities in our accessibility testing
Develop Accessibility Guidelines and Checklists for Yahoo!
Evangelize about accessibility in and outside Yahoo!
Run a public mailing list (coming soon)

With full effort to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
Use of ARIA for dynamic modules like Yahoo! Search
Closed captioning for videos
YUI components that are accessible, like ARIA enabled Drop down menus etc.
Audio CAPTCHA in Yahoo! Groups
We Design…

Accessibility Testing - Automated
Internal Automation Open Source Tool Yselinium to test for high level accessibility issues
WAVE – http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar
Firefox Accessibility extension
Add-ons of Mozilla Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=accessibility&cat=all

Manual Testing
Screen Readers
NVDA – http://www.nvda-project.org
JAWS for Windows – http://www.freedomscientific.com
Screen Magnifiers
ZoomText Xtra – http://www.aisquared.com
Dolphin Supernova – http://www.yourdolphin.com
Alternate Input devices –
Track ball and switch – http://www.ablenetinc.com
Dragon Naturally Speaking
http://www.nuance.com
Talks – a screen reader for mobile S60 phones
http://www.nuance.com/talks/

Outreach…
Present in Accessibility
Workshops around the country
Part of awareness
programs for other
organizations
Evangelize through Hack days

Thank You

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by Srinivasu Chakravarthula on Dec 14, 2010

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