In this digital age of disruptive technologies, we have access to an exorbitant amount of information and subsequently learning opportunities. We share knowledge, create resources, give feedback and so much more. But, not everyone is able to access these learning opportunities for a number of reasons – whether it be physical, sensory, or cognitive limitations or disabilities. We strive to help people learn and so empowering them to have access to the same learning opportunities is what making learning accessible all about.

1. ACCELERATE LEARNING PERFORMANCE
How to Make Learning More
Accessible and Inclusive
An Accessibility Guide for the Web and Other Digital
Technologies
Tuesday, July 10th, 2018
10 am PST

2. Meet Our Speaker
John Rochford
Accessibility Expert and Program Director at the UMASS
Medical School’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center

3. Accessibility Guidelines for
the Web & Other Digital
Technology
John Rochford
UMass Medical School
World Wide Web Consortium

4. Topics
•World Wide Web Consortium &
Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines.
•Digital tech usable by everyone.
•Why public and private Websites
must be usable by people with
disabilities.

5. Accessibility-
Related
Background
•I have built accessible Websites
since the mid-1990s. Example:
DisabilityInfo.org.
•I have a passion for cognitive
Web accessibility.
•I conduct research in
artificial-intelligence based Web
text simplification on a mass
scale.

6. W3C Invited
Expert
I am a member of:
•Accessibility Guidelines
Working Group
•Cognitive Accessibility
Task Force
•Low Vision Task Force
•Silver Community Group

7. Definition Of
Web
Accessibility
Everyone can
use the Web,
including people
with disabilities.

8. Importance Of Web Accessibility
•provides equal access &
opportunity
•helps people participate in
society
•is required by laws and policies
•benefits people without
disabilities

9. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
•An international community.
•Works with industry partners.
•Develops open standards.
•(HTML, CSS, XML, WCAG, etc.)
•Publishes Web Content Accessibility
Guidelines (WCAG).

10. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
(WCAG)
1
Authoritative
& Testable
Accessibility
Guidance
2
3 levels:
A, AA, AAA
3
New
version
2.1!
4
Web
Accessibility
Initiative
home page

11. Web Accessibility Testing
•Involving People with Disabilities
•Easy Checks
•Automated Evaluation Tools (30%)
•Filterable List

12. Why Must Public Websites Be Usable?
•Accessible means usable by everyone.
•1 in 7 people worldwide have a disability.
•Inaccessible Websites thus:
•exclude 1 in 7 customers;
•invite litigation; and
•cause problems for everyone.

13. Why Must Private Websites Be Usable?
Vast majority of
private Websites are:
•owned by employers;
•are inaccessible.
Thus people with
disabilities:
•cannot perform essential
job functions;
•are less likely to become
employed.

14. Accessibility Is:
•needed because 90% of Websites are inaccessible;
•essential because we all acquire disabilities as we
age;
•simple and inexpensive from the beginning;
•complicated and expensive if retrofitted; and
•the law in many countries.

15. Digital Tech Usable By All: Examples
Global Public
Inclusive
Infrastructure
Internet
of Things
Closed
Captioning
televisions,
phones,
streaming
media, etc.
Wayfinding
Technologies
Indoor
navigation for
airports, public
transit, etc.

16. Summary
•W3C sets accessibility standards.
•Compliance:
•is simple and inexpensive from the
beginning;
•is being applied beyond the Web; and
•makes the Web more usable by
everyone.

17. Thank You!
John Rochford
John.Rochford@umassmed.edu

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