Presented at teh 2014 M-Enabling conference, this presentation highlights EZFire's survey results. The resently ocmpleted survey presents insights into the current level of implementation from the industry's perspective.

1. Pratik Patel @ppatel
ppatel@ezfire.net
888-320-2921

2. A Brief Overview:
 About EZFire
 Overview of EZFire survey
 Testing and QA
 Legal V. policy and engineer-driven accessibility
 rich- media, captioning, audio description and online
video
 Interfaces and ACS
@ppatel

3. About EZFire
 Providing services since 2006
 Focusing on testing, compliance, Section 508, WCAG,
CVAA, documents, videos
 Testers, users with disabilities; database of more than
256 trusted testers
 Efforts driven by an international aproach
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4. Overview of EZFire CVAA survey
 Informal survey begun in 2012 to track data on CVAA
compliance efforts
 Tracking data for three years
 Formalizing this survey this year + a consumer survey
in a month
 Data available to the public for examination
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5. Overview of EZFire CVAA survey (2)
 Tracking questions on:
 Documentation
 Management of accessibility
 Employees, structure, services
 Testing and QA
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6. Testing and QA
 Two companies in 2012 v 58 in 2014 who report
conducting testing
 29 do not conduct testing
 Approximately 75% (43) companies report conducting
testing with people with disabilities
 Nearly 60% (35) companies utilize outside
organizations to conduct testing
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7. legal v. policy/Engineering
 All respondents report legal departments being
involved in CVAA compliance
 In 2012 90% of all accessibility was being driven by
legal
 2014 accessibility occurs through policy or engineering
with 81% (72) respondent companies
 100% of respondents have changed practices because
of CVAA
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8. Rich media, captioning, Description
 Less than 50% of rspondents need to consider captioning
or audio description
 98% of those report full captioning compliance on
television networks
 5 companies investing in internal infrastructures to
generate audio description
 All report investigating online captioning presence but
only a few have captioning online
 Audio description not present online because of lack of
requirement
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9. Rich media, captioning, Description
 40% of respondents believe that they are not required
to comply with ACS provisions of the CVAA whereas
they actually are required
 14 respondents currently working on efforts to make
playback and other video controller interfaces
accessible as opposed to 3 in 2012
 32 respondents are not doing so working when they
are, in fact required to do so.
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