How to Mitigate the Risk of an Accessibility Lawsuit3Play Media
In this webinar, Kristina Launey, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, will talk about the current state of the law regarding online accessibility. She will look into past and current lawsuits to bring insight into the patterns that are emerging from these lawsuits. Kristina will also discuss best practices for creating accessible websites and mitigating your risk of getting sued.
Incorporating Accessibility into the Procurement Process3Play Media
In this webinar, Kara Zirkle, Accessible Technology Specialist at Miami University, will go over the lessons she's learned from establishing a procurement process at George Mason and now Miami University. She will share what important tools you can use in your procurement workflows, as well as demonstrate how you can build a procurement process at your university.
eA11: Clive Holdsworth - Regulating digital accessibility and encouraging com...Headstar
Regulating digital accessibility and encouraging compliance: a talk by Clive Holdsworth, Head of Digital, Equality and Human Rights Commission at e-Access '11, 28 June 2011.
Presentation by Kuldar Taveter, Senior Consultant in e-Government and Digital Economy, Estonia, at the 3rd and last seminar in the series, held on 1 April 2021, which puts the focus on moving towards seamless public service delivery. This 3rd event takes place in the framework of a series of three webinars organised by the SIGMA Programme, a joint initiative of the OECD and EU, principally financed by the EU, on the role of life events in end-to-end public service delivery.
MAPs - Staying Compliant in Mortgage AdvertisingGo2Training
Compliance in Marketing in the Digital Age!
Anyone subject to the rule must maintain records of specific forms of communication. This includes sales scripts, training materials, marketing materials and commercial communications regarding any term of any mortgage credit product.
How to Improve Digital Accessibility While Reducing Legal Risk3Play Media
In this webinar, Jason Taylor, Chief Innovation Strategist at UsableNet, will take us through the key findings in UsableNet's comprehensive state of digital accessibility report. You won't want to miss this.
Innovation Accelerators:
Defining Characteristics Among Startup Assistance Organizations by C. Scott Dempwolf, Jennifer Auer, and
Michelle D’Ippolito
Optimal Solutions Group, LLC
College Park, MD 20740
contract number SBAHQ -13-M-0197
Release Date: October 2014
This report was developed under a contract with the Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, and contains information and analysis that were reviewed by officials of the Office of Advocacy. However, the final conclusions of the report do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Advocacy.
How to Mitigate the Risk of an Accessibility Lawsuit3Play Media
In this webinar, Kristina Launey, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, will talk about the current state of the law regarding online accessibility. She will look into past and current lawsuits to bring insight into the patterns that are emerging from these lawsuits. Kristina will also discuss best practices for creating accessible websites and mitigating your risk of getting sued.
Incorporating Accessibility into the Procurement Process3Play Media
In this webinar, Kara Zirkle, Accessible Technology Specialist at Miami University, will go over the lessons she's learned from establishing a procurement process at George Mason and now Miami University. She will share what important tools you can use in your procurement workflows, as well as demonstrate how you can build a procurement process at your university.
eA11: Clive Holdsworth - Regulating digital accessibility and encouraging com...Headstar
Regulating digital accessibility and encouraging compliance: a talk by Clive Holdsworth, Head of Digital, Equality and Human Rights Commission at e-Access '11, 28 June 2011.
Presentation by Kuldar Taveter, Senior Consultant in e-Government and Digital Economy, Estonia, at the 3rd and last seminar in the series, held on 1 April 2021, which puts the focus on moving towards seamless public service delivery. This 3rd event takes place in the framework of a series of three webinars organised by the SIGMA Programme, a joint initiative of the OECD and EU, principally financed by the EU, on the role of life events in end-to-end public service delivery.
MAPs - Staying Compliant in Mortgage AdvertisingGo2Training
Compliance in Marketing in the Digital Age!
Anyone subject to the rule must maintain records of specific forms of communication. This includes sales scripts, training materials, marketing materials and commercial communications regarding any term of any mortgage credit product.
How to Improve Digital Accessibility While Reducing Legal Risk3Play Media
In this webinar, Jason Taylor, Chief Innovation Strategist at UsableNet, will take us through the key findings in UsableNet's comprehensive state of digital accessibility report. You won't want to miss this.
Innovation Accelerators:
Defining Characteristics Among Startup Assistance Organizations by C. Scott Dempwolf, Jennifer Auer, and
Michelle D’Ippolito
Optimal Solutions Group, LLC
College Park, MD 20740
contract number SBAHQ -13-M-0197
Release Date: October 2014
This report was developed under a contract with the Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, and contains information and analysis that were reviewed by officials of the Office of Advocacy. However, the final conclusions of the report do not necessarily reflect the views of the Office of Advocacy.
When Worlds Collide: Tracking the Trends at the Intersection of Social, Mobil...mkeane
The american workplace is in a period of unprecedented change as the combination of mobile technology and social media is changing the "who, what, when and where" of work.
Presentation 1: Web 2.0 - Leading Applications in Government
Presenters:
Eric Bristow - Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting
Doug Shoupp – Principal, Deloitte Consulting
2021 Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold3Play Media
In this webinar, Lainey will take us through key cases, court decisions, government agency activity, settlements, and other recent developments in the digital accessibility legal space.
From Level Access, Sam Joehl, Principal Technical Consultant, talks about the common mistakes he sees when auditing websites, as well as talk about the essential regulations one must know when working in the digital accessibility space, particularly when it comes to complying with CVAA requirements.
Privacy through Anonymisation in Large-scale Socio-technical Systems: The BIS...Andrea Omicini
Large-scale socio-technical systems (STS) inextricably inter-connect individual – e.g., the right to privacy –, social – e.g., the effectiveness of organisational processes –, and technology issues —e.g., the software engineering process. As a result, the design of the complex software infrastructure involves also non-technological aspects such as the legal ones—so that, e.g., law-abidingness can be ensured since the early stages of the software engineering process. By focussing on contact centres (CC) as relevant examples of knowledge-intensive STS, we elaborate on the articulate aspects of anonymisation: there, individual and organisational needs clash, so that only an accurate balancing between legal and technical aspects could possibly ensure the system efficiency while preserving the individual right to privacy. We discuss first the overall legal framework, then the general theme of anonymisation in CC. Finally we overview the technical process developed in the context of the BISON project.
Project presentation @ DMI, Università di Catania, Italy, 25 July 2016
5 Key Things to Know About eDiscovery and How to Implement Them in Your PracticeESI Attorneys LLC
A primer for attorneys, legal professionals, board members and business people on what to be aware of with digital information and the process of electronic discovery.
Agencies - Talking to Clients about Digital AccessibilityTeresa Huber
Many digital agencies have clients requesting ADA accessibility for their website or other digital applications.
This guide provides the agency with details needed to become acquainted with digital accessibility to facilitate the conversation.
Schedule a time to discuss how we partner with agencies to help them with their accessiblity needs. https://getadaaccessible.com/schedule-a-consult
When Worlds Collide: Tracking the Trends at the Intersection of Social, Mobil...mkeane
The american workplace is in a period of unprecedented change as the combination of mobile technology and social media is changing the "who, what, when and where" of work.
Presentation 1: Web 2.0 - Leading Applications in Government
Presenters:
Eric Bristow - Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting
Doug Shoupp – Principal, Deloitte Consulting
2021 Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold3Play Media
In this webinar, Lainey will take us through key cases, court decisions, government agency activity, settlements, and other recent developments in the digital accessibility legal space.
From Level Access, Sam Joehl, Principal Technical Consultant, talks about the common mistakes he sees when auditing websites, as well as talk about the essential regulations one must know when working in the digital accessibility space, particularly when it comes to complying with CVAA requirements.
Privacy through Anonymisation in Large-scale Socio-technical Systems: The BIS...Andrea Omicini
Large-scale socio-technical systems (STS) inextricably inter-connect individual – e.g., the right to privacy –, social – e.g., the effectiveness of organisational processes –, and technology issues —e.g., the software engineering process. As a result, the design of the complex software infrastructure involves also non-technological aspects such as the legal ones—so that, e.g., law-abidingness can be ensured since the early stages of the software engineering process. By focussing on contact centres (CC) as relevant examples of knowledge-intensive STS, we elaborate on the articulate aspects of anonymisation: there, individual and organisational needs clash, so that only an accurate balancing between legal and technical aspects could possibly ensure the system efficiency while preserving the individual right to privacy. We discuss first the overall legal framework, then the general theme of anonymisation in CC. Finally we overview the technical process developed in the context of the BISON project.
Project presentation @ DMI, Università di Catania, Italy, 25 July 2016
5 Key Things to Know About eDiscovery and How to Implement Them in Your PracticeESI Attorneys LLC
A primer for attorneys, legal professionals, board members and business people on what to be aware of with digital information and the process of electronic discovery.
Agencies - Talking to Clients about Digital AccessibilityTeresa Huber
Many digital agencies have clients requesting ADA accessibility for their website or other digital applications.
This guide provides the agency with details needed to become acquainted with digital accessibility to facilitate the conversation.
Schedule a time to discuss how we partner with agencies to help them with their accessiblity needs. https://getadaaccessible.com/schedule-a-consult
Mitigating Risk of Website Accessibility Lawsuits3Play Media
Attempts to enforce ADA website compliance continue and may be increasing in some business verticals with the effects of the pandemic and the push to an all-on-line era. The need to make your websites more accessible to all is not a matter of if, but rather when. Accessible360’s Co-founder has been teaching CLE classes for several years, come learn what you can do now to make websites and apps available to more people, and how to reduce your risk.
Reaching Corporate Australia with a Business CaseAccess iQ
Vivienne Conway and Natalie Collins talk through how web accessibility practitioners can encourage Australian businesses to embrace WCAG 2.0 through providing them with a business case.
Forms for All: Building Accessibility into UiPath App DesignDianaGray10
Explore the world of accessible app design. We'll dive into common accessibility challenges faced by users in online forms and uncover practical solutions. Learn how to identify and rectify barriers that hinder user interaction, ensuring your forms are navigable and usable by all. This session will provide valuable insights into creating more inclusive online experiences, making your apps not just functional, but more accessible.
Topics covered in this session include:
• The Importance of Accessibility
• UX Accessibility Examples
• Adding Accessibility to Apps
Speaker:
David Kroll, Director, Product Marketing @Ashling Partners and UiPath MVP
Enhancing the User Experience for People with DisabilitiesUXPA International
In this webinar, attendees learned about the following:
1. Disability Market Trends: Understanding the disability market and barriers faced by people with disabilities in the digital world.
2. Accessible Technology: Discover how people with disabilities use technology to engage with brands digitally.
3. Web Accessibility Guidelines, Standards and Regulations: Learn about mandated requirements and how they benefit consumers.
4. Success Stories: See how leading organizations have enhanced the user experience for people with disabilities through an integrated approach to web accessibility compliance that delights
Secure a budget for digital accessibilityAbilityNet
As a digital professional, you know that investing in digital accessibility can increase your reach, reputation and deliver a Return on Investment. However, other internal stakeholders might need convincing. Our FREE slide deck on The Business Case for Accessibility is free to download and customise for your organisation.
Data Con LA 2020
Description
In this session, we'll be discussing the legal implications and complications of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics. Topics covered will include:
*Intellectual Property Complications
*Treatment of Data and Privacy
*Contract Complications
*Sources of Liability
*Novel Types of Disputes
Specifically, as the real-world begins to make greater use of these technologies, what are the ramifications in responsibility, liability, and more that we should be thinking about, both as producers and users of these new technologies.
Speaker
Morvareed Salehpour, Salehpour Legal Consulting - law firm, Managing Partner
George Florentine, Executive Vice President of Engineering at Flatirons, presents 5 ways Flatirons' clients have used Application Retirement with EMC's InfoArchive to boost their ability to comply with data regulations.
Online Behavioral Advertising (OBA) Legal & Regulatory ComplianceAdler Law Group
Behavioral or targeted marketing and advertising is one of the fastest growing areas for advertising and marketing professionals. New technologies driving behavioral and contextual advertising are challenging the established methods. Many realize that limiting targeted marketing may lead to undesired and potentially disruptive consequences, including undermining the implicit bargain that drives the Internet: the exchange of value between consumers and content providers. However, legislators, regulators, and industry trade groups have expressed concerns over perceived abuses of the collection and use of personal data of online users that involve privacy issues that “go well beyond behavioral advertising.” With every technological development and opportunity, new legal and business risks present themselves. Understanding and minimizing these risks will help you maximize the opportunities. Attendees will learn 1) the current state of behavioral and contextual advertising, 2) risks and pitfalls with targeted advertising, and 3) trends in legislation and regulatory compliance.
Shaping the Future of Trusted Digital IdentityNoreen Whysel
May 2019 presentation by Noreen Whysel to the CARIN Technology Committee. Discusses the Identity Ecosystem Framework Registry (idefregistry.org) and proposed health data use cases for potential trusted identity API for healthcare.
Document Accessibility: What It Is and Why It Matters to Your Organisation?Precisely
Businesses are moving an increasing number of customer interactions online and digital and mobile have become the preferred delivery channels for enhancing essential customer communications. As a result, companies must address the needs of all their customers when creating web-based services and digital content.
Equality legislation - the widely adopted Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the new EU Web Accessibility Directive – seeks to meet accessibility standards by ensuring websites, information, personal documents and vital services are made fully accessible to everyone who needs it, regardless of their disabilities, location or equipment.
Are you in a position to meet those standards? Are you providing great user experience to all your clients? Join us for our upcoming webinar. This session will explain the basic principles of accessibility, the benefits of producing accessible documents and how you can automate and scale the end-to-end process.
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Advancing Equity and Inclusion for Deaf Students in Higher Education3Play Media
Join us for a session presented by the National Deaf Center on Postsecondary Outcomes (NDC) on creating inclusive environments in higher education for deaf students. NDC will provide valuable insights into the common barriers faced by deaf students in higher education and offer strategies for fostering inclusivity.
"Am I Doing This Right?" Imposter Syndrome and Accessibility Maturity3Play Media
Register for this free webinar to learn ways to navigate challenges, embark on an exciting growth trajectory, and ensure a smooth accessibility career journey.
The 3Play Way: Real-Time Captioning in Higher Education3Play Media
During the session, you will gain insights into 3Play Media’s technologies and integrations to understand how these tools work in harmony with our highly skilled captioners to provide seamless, real-time captions that meet the highest standards of quality. Whether it’s live lectures, virtual classrooms, or campus events, our real-time services ensure that students have equal access to educational content.
Developing a Centrally Supported Captioning System with Utah State University3Play Media
Join us for a spotlight chat with Utah State University (USU) as they share their remarkable journey in developing a centrally supported captioning system across their statewide university campuses. This engaging webinar will delve into the various aspects of their captioning initiative, highlighting the challenges they faced, the strategies they've implemented, and their progress so far.
Lessons Learned: Canada’s Past, Present, and Future Leadership in Digital Acc...3Play Media
Canada is recognized as a global leader in digital accessibility, most recently with their introduction of the Accessible Canada Act. Like all countries, Canada has an imperfect history when it comes to accessibility and inclusivity, but what can others learn from Canada in how to operationalize an accessible ecosystem? How can other countries build inclusive practices into their culture and legislation?
On Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), join us as David Berman, an internationally recognized expert in inclusive design and strategic communications, discusses Canada’s history of leadership in accessibility, as well as predicting where the puck is heading regarding regulations and emerging standards that can benefit everyone within and beyond its borders.
David will share experience and insights that will help you leave no one behind online... while enjoying the “Accessibility Dividend” for all.
As Product Professionals we are told our job is to create products that either solve user problems or take advantage of opportunities. The challenge is that, during this time, this seems hard to find as new product innovations are being released every day. Are we running out of problems or opportunities? No, we have simply only been looking at the problem/opportunity from our usual viewpoint of the average user. What if we looked at it from a different lens? What if we look at people who always struggle with problems based on their environments not accommodating their unique needs? I argue, this is the gold mine of opportunity for creating innovative products. Solving the mismatches of people with disabilities will lead into innovations for your users and customers of all abilities! We will discuss the real-world examples of this, how to do it, and future market demand. We will all be disabled one day.
Why Every Company Needs to Think and Act Like a Media Company3Play Media
In this session, we will explore what it means to operate as a media company by owning your own channels and ensuring your content is accessible to a diverse audience.
2023 State of Automatic Speech Recognition3Play Media
This session will discuss the findings from a 2023 research study of leading ASR engines to understand how speech AI measures up to the task of captioning and transcription without the intervention of a human editor. The study tested 549 files across nine industries, testing approximately 107 hours of content with a total of over 900,000 words.
Although Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is commonly heard of in higher education, most are implementing it at the level of individual interactions or think it's just another facet of accessibility efforts. During this session, we will build on the foundational knowledge of UDL to create expert-level UDL systems at our institutions. We will work together to develop observation and assessment techniques for UDL to create a foundation from which we can build.
Neurodiversity in the Workplace - Part 13Play Media
This webinar, presented in partnership with Tara Cunningham from Beyond-Impact, aims to illuminate the experiences of neurodivergent people in the workplace – from the first interview to annual performance reviews. We’ll discuss the impact of a neurodiverse team on overall productivity and communication, as well as introduce easy-to-implement accommodations that could benefit neurodivergent employees… and your organization as a whole.
How To Deliver an Accessible Online Presentation3Play Media
This presentation will share the challenges people with disabilities face in delivering or participating in online presentations at conferences and meetings.
In this webinar, Bet Hannon, Founder and CEO of AccessiCart, gave non-technical, practical tips for improving website accessibility and discuss the benefits of having an accessible site.
2022 Digital Accessibility Legal Update.pdf3Play Media
3Play Media’s annual end-of-the-year Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold.
Learning Objectives:
--Legal requirements impacting digital accessibility (primarily in the US, touching upon international requirements).
--Updates on major digital access court cases, laws, regulations, and settlements over the past twelve months.
--Best practices for digital accessibility to stay ahead of the legal curve as defined by industry leaders, court orders, and major settlements.
-- Ethics in the digital accessibility legal space (centering disabled people and avoiding fear, quick fixes, and shortcuts).
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. The World We’re In
COVID-19
Increased awareness of the need for digital accessibility
• 83% of all respondents said that “COVID-19 has raised the profile and importance of digital
channels for their organization” and
• 62% reported that “COVID-19 has raised the awareness and impact of accessibility on the
digital channel.”
• New opportunity to spread accessibility awareness and accountability across teams.
• Increased work on this allows teams to work together & adapt a unified effort
QA Vector Research
3.
4. Who Owns This?
“Business often says legal should own accessibility, legal says it
is for product and product says it is for UX. Nobody owns accessibility.”
- User Experience Director, Global US Insurer
“Without a mandate from legal, getting specific funding for accessibility
is difficult.” - User Experience Director, Nation
Holistic Corporate Ownership for accessibility is critical.
This will enable firms to rationalize spend, reduce internal friction and
have a proactive plan to reduce customer complaints ( aka: reduce risk)
5. Program Structure for Financial Firms
Corporate Policy
• Human Resources
• Documents & Staff Environments
• Internal System Accommodations & Remote work
Digital Products
• Websites, On Line Banking, Mobile Apps
• PDF’s & Videos
• Updating Content
Third Party Vendors
• Loyalty Programs
• Careers Page
• Plug-ins
6. Risk Mitigation
• Post Accessibility Statement
• Third Party Vendor Contracts
• Audits & Governance
• Defense Strategy
9. What to do in 2021
• Draft an Accessibility Inclusion Policy
• Get Website Statements Posted
• T’s & C’s of Mobile Apps
• Customer Service Training
• Loyalty Programs
• Careers Page
• Plug-ins
• Updating Content
10. What Not to do
• Panic
• Install and Overlay
• Nothing
11. Looking Ahead into 2022
• Firm Foundation
• Plan to Pay for Accessibility
• Protect Investment Made
13. The inclusive practice of removing
barriers that prevent interaction with
websites, apps and enterprise systems
for people with disabilities.
Accessibility in the
Digital Age
13
15. People With Disabilities
* CDC https://www.cdc.gov/
* The Global Economics of Disability - Fifth Quadrant
Analytics
61 m
US Population with Disability
1/3
US families have
at least one member
with a disability
1 in 10
men are
color blind
$544 billion
Spending power
1 B
Disability affects more than one billion people
worldwide
16. Business Case for Accessibility
Social Responsibility
• Equitable Access helps close the digital divide
• Improves quality of life for millions
Maximize Profits
• Build goodwill toward your brand
• Welcome everyone into your audience
• Retain the aging baby boomers as customers
Financial
• Up to a 10:1 savings if done with new digital product builds
• A360’s Proactive Solutions can reduce costs and reduce risk
Legal Risk
• Any plaintiff firm can sue any company for a non-compliant site
• You are not safe or “done” just because you settle with one plaintiff
• Government, Medical and Public Education should already be compliant
CONFIDENTIAL
17. Bring your content to life.
For everyone.
Digital content correctly designed and coded,
offers access to information & functionality via
the assistive technology devices that people
with disabilities use to gain access.
Assistive Technology
CONFIDENTIAL
21. Accessibility and the Law
Rehabilitation Act of 1973
How the law is applied to the digital space
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Title I: Employment
Title II: Public Entities
Title III: Accommodations
A11y Global Initiatives
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0 & 2.1)
CONFIDENTIAL
22. Section 504
Federal law protects the rights of individuals with disabilities in programs and activities that receive Federal
financial assistance
Section 508
Requires Federal agencies to make their electronic & information technology (EIT) accessible to people with
disabilities
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
CONFIDENTIAL
As amended in 1998
23. • ADA Title I, Employment
• ADA Title II, Public entities
(federal, state and local government, medical & public education)
• ADA Title III, Public Accommodations
(stores, banks, theaters, bars, restaurants, etc.)
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
CONFIDENTIAL
24. Public Accommodations
WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS COVERED
UNDER TITLE III OF THE ADA?
Generally, courts have held that a website of a public entity is also covered by Title III
of the ADA and in cases of online-only businesses, it is also widely accepted after court
rulings.
Companies now understand it is possible to allow everyone into the digital audience to
access their goods and services.
25. W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium is
an international community that
develops open standards to ensure
the long term growth of the Web.
www.w3.org
WCAG
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/
26. Information and UI components must be
presentable in ways users can perceive
WCAG Principles
UI components & navigation must
be operable by those using
assistive technology
Information and UI must be
understandable to people
with disabilities
Content must be interpreted
consistently and reliably by
users and assistive
technologies
UNDERSTANDABLE
OPERABLE
PERCEIVABLE
ROBUST
27. Section508 Compliance
•1998 to 2017
• Very specific about issues
• Severely limits ways to fix
• Overly prescriptive and rigid
WCAG 2.0 AA
• Clear guidelines
• Excellent supportive documents
• Not only one way to fix code
• Future-proof
• Flexible and adaptable
What are the Guidelines?
Jan. 2017: Section508 refresh notice
Jan. 2018: WCAG 2.0 AA in effect!
CONFIDENTIAL
WCAG 2.1* AA
• Builds on 2.0
• 3 brand new guidelines 17 / 12 are
AA
• To address the input modalities that
did not exist when WCAG 2.0 was
released in 2008
Pointer Accessible
Additional Sensor Inputs
Speech
* Not all Clients need these new elements tested, simply because they are not
present on their sites / products and Clients need to verify the presence of
these, as it is not always obvious or apparent.
28. Office of Civil Rights
Department of Justice – DOJ
Demand Letters
Lawsuits In Federal or State
Courts Class Action
• Engage independent approved vendor for a live-user audit
• Publish an Accessibility Statement
• Solicit feedback regarding accessibility
• Offer Improved telephone support
• Technical Training for development teams
• Continue to Monitor websites to maintain compliance
• Designate Accessibility Coordinator from the Dev Team
•Obtain a Letter of Conformance from the Auditor
Enforcement:
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The Common Elements of
DOJ Settlements
29. • Section 504 & 508 Public Entities have been Required since 1998 ~ most are not
compliant.
❖ Government
❖ Healthcare
❖ Education
• 21st Century IDEA Act
• EEOC Title I of the ADA is Employment Claiming you are an “EEOC” Employer …. ?
• Unruh Civil Rights Act ~ $4,000 per access violation plus attorneys fees
• The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) 2005
• The EU Directive
• CCPA WCAG 2.1 in 2021
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Regulations & Enforcement
30. •Your competition is paying attention ~ get going on this
•Live User audits replaced automated scanning tools
•New websites are frequently targeted by plaintiffs
•General public is demanding equitable access
•Companies are holding digital agencies accountable for compliance
•Plaintiff law firms are incredibly active
•Settling one lawsuit does not prevent another; must fix your digital products
Trends in ADA Compliance
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32. What to Include in Your Accessibility Testing
plan
• Corporate Website
• Mobile Apps & OLB
• Product Demo Videos
• Investor Information & Portfolio Briefs
• Third Party Software
• New Builds
34. Methods 34
1.Live-User Audits
Only way to determine accessibility & compliance
2.Other So-Called Solutions
Add-ons or Over-lay Tools & the results of live testing these
Scanning Tool errors & the limitations of all SaaS scans
3. “Separate but Equal” websites
Typically very expensive, unnecessary & poorly received
Fix the site you have why pay for upkeep of 2 websites?
- Live User Audit Results of these
Note: Ruling against Scandinavian Airlines
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35. Scanning Tools Alone
Leave You Vulnerable
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Reports are not informative or accurate
enough for developers to use for
remediation
They all return false positives
Lack the recommended fixes to specific
accessibility problems
Tool
% Found of the
143 known issues
SortSite 40%
Tenon 32%
AChecker 32%
SiteImprove 29%
aXe 29%
ASLint 28%
FAE 28%
WAVE 27%
HTML_CodeSniffer 20%
Google ADT 17%
EIII 16%
Nu Html Checker 9%
https://alphagov.github.io/accessibility-tool-audit/
Free tools return about the same
scores
Keep in mind: Only 20-25% of WCAG Success Criteria can be Scanned for
Of the 20-25% found in scans
37. New Build Design & Development Process
Build Launch
Accessibility In
Preview
New Designs Accessible & Compliant
support | advise train | test | QA support | monitor
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38. Partner With A360
Enabl
e
Leverag
e
Accessible Processes
across all businesses
Establish
A360 Seeks Like- Minded
Platforms & Third Parties for
referral network
Market your New Competencies paired
with A360’s Validation & Deliverables
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39. Superior Vendor
Litigation
Support
A360 HUB
Governance System
Knowledgebase &
Training
Disrupted Market with
Rebuttal Reports &
Litigation Support
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Proven
Process
Single Site to Hundreds
within One Company
41. KEY TAKE AWAY:
Making your website Digitally Accessible should
be viewed as a process, not a one-time project
• Don’t let the time and money go to waste
• Reduce risk of costly lawsuit litigation
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