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- 1. Importance of ADA Compliance By Jemimah Aslarona & Merin Sabu
- 2. Let’s meet some friends... Jill Joan Jane Images taken from Powtoon.com
- 3. Let’s meet... Jill Joan Jane • 20/200 vision (legally blind) • hearing is fine • taking an econ class • 20/20 vision (perfect vision) • hearing is fine • taking an econ class • 20/20 vision (perfect vision) • born without cochlear nerves (fully deaf) • taking an econ class
- 4. What can they see?
- 5. What do they hear?
- 7. Statistics Approximately 2.5 million students in the U.S[1] 200,000 students with disabilities[1] [1] “College Resources for Students with Disabilities.” Best Colleges, 7 June 2017, www.bestcolleges.com/resources/disabled-students/. Accessed 17 Aug. 2017.
- 8. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ● Prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities [2] ○ Title I - Employment ○ Title II - State & Govt. Activities, Transportation* ○ Title III - Public Accommodation & Commercial Facilities ○ Title IV - Telecommunications Relay Services[2] United States of America, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. (2009, July). A Guide to Disability Rights Laws. Retrieved August 17, 2017, from https://www.ada.gov/2010_regs.htm
- 9. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ● Section 504 [2] ○ Govt. funded services/activities/programs can not discriminate against people with disabilities ● Section 508 [2] ○ All federal information technology must be accessible (1998) [2] United States of America, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. (2009, July). A Guide to Disability Rights Laws. Retrieved August 17, 2017, from https://www.ada.gov/2010_regs.htm [3] Siteimprove OCR Presentation [PDF]. (n.d.). Nassau BOCES. [3]
- 10. An individual with a disability is defined as... ● According to the ADA, ○ an individual with a physical or mental impairment which significantly limits one or more life activities. [2] [2] United States of America, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. (2009, July). A Guide to Disability Rights Laws. Retrieved August 17, 2017, from https://www.ada.gov/2010_regs.htm
- 11. A Real Life Example
- 12. Accessibility Lawsuits K-12 ● Noel Nightingale & NFB vs. Seattle Public Schools (2014) [4] Higher Education ● NAD vs. Harvard & MIT (2015) [5, 6] [4] Molnar, M. (2017, June 07). Ed-Tech Accessibility Lawsuit Settled By Seattle District, Advocates for Blind. Retrieved August 18, 2017, https://marketbrief.edweek.org/marketplace-k-12/ed-tech_accessibility_lawsuit_settled_by_seattle_district_advocates_for_blind/ [5] United States of America, DOJ, U.S. Attorney's Office, MA. (2015, April 2). United States Reaches Settlement with Provider of Massive Open Online Courses to Make its Content Accessible to the Disabled. Retrieved August 17, 2017, https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/united-states-reaches-settlement-provider-massive-open-online-courses-make-its-content [6] Harvard & MIT Sued for Lack of Online Video Captioning. (2016, April 28). Retrieved August 18, 2017, from http://www.3playmedia.com/2015/02/12/harvard-mit-sued-captioning-violation-ada-rehabilitation-act/ [6]
- 13. Why is Accessibility Important? Ideation Prototypin g Launch Accessibility Issue Brainstorming Further Development Bug Fix
- 14. Why is Accessibility Important? Ideation Prototypin g Launch Accessibility Edit Brainstorming Bug Locate/Fix Further Bug Fix
- 15. Ideation w/ accessibility in mind Prototypin g Brainstorming Bug Locate/Fix Launch Further Bug Fix
- 16. Accessibility is for Everyone!
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- Joan has 20/20 vision, (she only wears those glasses for fashion), and she hears perfectly fine, Jill has 20/200 vision, which is considered legally blind and her hearing is fine. Jane has 20/20 vision as well, but she was born without her cochlear nerves which classifies her as deaf. All three friends are enrolled in the same econ class and are required to go do their reading on a web platform
- They all go home to log onto their textbook platform and here is what they see. Joan and Jane see everything just fine and are able to log in right away. Since Jill is legally blind, she has extremely limited view, She wears glasses but they don’t always help her. It takes her awhile to even log on
- Now they are all on the platform, they come to the introductory video for their econ book. While they all can all see figures and follow the video, Joan has no problem following the video. While Jill can’t fully see, she can hear everything and follow the lesson as well. Jane however can’t hear the video. All she sees are people talking and she can’t follow the video.
- Because of Jill and Jane’s disabilities, their grades are greatly affected. Joan is furious and finds the situation unfair. Unfortunately they aren’t alone.
- Roughly 11 percent of college students are reported to have a disability. While that percentage is low, thats coming from approximately 2.5 million students. Thats 200,00 students with disabilities. Fortunately, there are some laws in place to help these students
- A law that protect people with disabilities is the ADA act of 1990 Title I - Equal employment opportunity for individuals with disabilities Title II - Nondiscrimination on the basis of disability in state and local govt. services Covers state funded schools such as universities, community colleges and vocational schools Financial aid services Title III - Nondiscrimination on the basis of disability by public accommodations and in commercial facilities Covers private colleges, and vocational schools Title IV - Requires telephone and internet companies to provide TRS to allow individuals with hearing and speech disabilities to communicate over the telephone via keyboard and assistive device.
- On January 9, 2017, the section 508 guideline 'refresh' was completed, updating the specifications to include WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA WCAG - Web Content Accessibility Guidelines PDF/UA - PDF Universal Accessibility - the international standard for accessible PDF technology
- Here is a real life example of an individual with a disability At the end of the video, one of the reasons why i choose this video was that it shows why accessibility is important to the team of panOpen
- Nightingale, a blind mother of three Seattle students, filed a lawsuit in 2014 because she did not have equal/proper access to information on the district’s websites and a math program. She originally brought the issue to the attention of Seattle schools in 2012, according to a briefing for the school board on the issue. The district’s website provider indicated that it could not fully resolve the issues. The NAD cited violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Rehabilitation Act in the university's’ failure to provide appropriately accurate and comprehensive captioning for online course materials.
- At this point, you might be asking “why is accessibility important for us?”. We aren't expert when it comes to creating features for the platform, but we summarized that the process comes down to this. An ideation phase, that leads to brainstorming, prototyping, more development which leads to a launch and bug fixes. But then after that, we run into an issue of accessibility. Jill and Jane can’t use some of these features.
- Because of that, this entire timeline becomes a cycle until another accessibility issues pops back up and the cycle continues. This process is not the most efficient and all of the cycling can take up a lot of valuable company time.
- With accessibility in mind from the beginning, we can cut the cycle and create into a new gold standard. While the ideation stage might take longer,
- will not only lead to the success of Jill, Joan, and Jane. But for everyone. (add slide for what we did, why panopen is