This document summarizes a presentation given by Michael Fienen and Dylan Wilbanks on the topic of accessibility and usability. The presentation argues that accessibility and usability have many similarities and should be considered together from the beginning of a project. It provides recommendations for making templates, forms, and videos accessible. It also discusses testing for accessibility and strategies for getting buy-in for accessibility within an organization, emphasizing an early and iterative approach. The overall message is that accessibility should be a priority from the start of any project to create a better experience for all users.
Your head is spinning and your plate is beyond full with Facebook, twitter, YouTube, flickr, Picasa, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and LinkedIn? Come prepared to dig in with Joel F. W. Price, web and information manager, Friends’ Central School. As with the use of any tool, you need a sense of how to harness the greatest potential from social media without hurting yourself or your institution. After you strategize, you can start connecting so that the tools start to work for you. What can you be doing to prepare your school for the changing landscape of social media?
Have you ever run into that problem you are trying to solve, that is tangential to your core business? It’s easy to run off, look for a gem, and use it.
What is harder, is when that gem … isn’t quite right. Maybe you should look for an alternative. Maybe you should fix the gem. Or if your problem is different enough, you can fork the gem
Or maybe you should just stop wasting so much time looking for the “easy” solution, and just DO THE WORK.
Slides from my keynote presentation at the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference 2013 (#pelc13).
As it was a closing keynote, I attempted to weave topics, themes, images and other resources from the conference into my narrative.
Thanks for the invitation, Steve Wheeler!
Whether you’re talking about APIs, responsive sites, or content repositories, you’re going to need structured content. But if you want structure to really work, you have to change more than your CMS. You have to change your organization.
Your head is spinning and your plate is beyond full with Facebook, twitter, YouTube, flickr, Picasa, Google Docs and Spreadsheets, and LinkedIn? Come prepared to dig in with Joel F. W. Price, web and information manager, Friends’ Central School. As with the use of any tool, you need a sense of how to harness the greatest potential from social media without hurting yourself or your institution. After you strategize, you can start connecting so that the tools start to work for you. What can you be doing to prepare your school for the changing landscape of social media?
Have you ever run into that problem you are trying to solve, that is tangential to your core business? It’s easy to run off, look for a gem, and use it.
What is harder, is when that gem … isn’t quite right. Maybe you should look for an alternative. Maybe you should fix the gem. Or if your problem is different enough, you can fork the gem
Or maybe you should just stop wasting so much time looking for the “easy” solution, and just DO THE WORK.
Slides from my keynote presentation at the Plymouth Enhanced Learning Conference 2013 (#pelc13).
As it was a closing keynote, I attempted to weave topics, themes, images and other resources from the conference into my narrative.
Thanks for the invitation, Steve Wheeler!
Whether you’re talking about APIs, responsive sites, or content repositories, you’re going to need structured content. But if you want structure to really work, you have to change more than your CMS. You have to change your organization.
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Blogpost from planning the presentation:
http://idaaalen.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/hva-forventer-en-student-av-et-universitetsbibliotek/
A perennial favorite, join us as we present 50 new technology tips! From new tools to new hacks, start the school season off right with this fast-paced session. Pulling from a broad range of presenters -- from technologists, website administrators, attorneys, to tips from the community -- the hour will fly by!
Panelists:
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Tony Lu, Citizenship Works Project Coordinator, Pro Bono Net
Kim Marshall, Content Developer and Project Manager, Arkansas Legal Services Partnership
Jessie Posilkin, Training and Implementation Specialist, Legal Services Corporation
Moderator:
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Presentation to the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference 2010 in Limerick, Ireland. Describes Champlain College's process for developing a culture of assessment in its library.
Organizations are messy places: politics thwart progress, departmental squabbles are status quo, and decision-making often takes months. This chaos makes its way right to our websites, filling them with crap users don't want, need, or sometimes even understand. We’re practicing content strategy now, so what gives? Why are we still designing around all this clutter and corporate-speak? Because strategy documents and style rules alone won’t make people actually produce content that meets users’ needs and aligns with our designs. In this talk, you’ll hear what will: embracing (okay, tolerating) content chaos, instead of anguishing over imperfections. You'll learn strategic approaches for defining meaningful content problems in your organization—and solving them one at a time.
La Trobe University Australia - Technical Considerations for Implementation o...Damien Clark
EASICONNECT - a whole-of-institution implementation of learning analytics used at Central Queensland University (CQUniversity) - presented by visiting scholar, Damien Clark. EASI, or Early Alerts Student Indicators assists academics in not only identifying students at-risk of failure, but also with tools to nudge students to re-engage with their studies. While MAV, or Moodle Activity Viewer offers an innovative way of visualising Moodle site usage, not with tables or graphs, but instead using a heat map. It assists academics with evidence of use (and disuse), thus informing continuous improvement of Moodle sites, and ultimately, the student learning experience.
Damien discusses the technical aspects of EASICONNECT, opportunities and considerations for adoption of EASI and MAV at your institution.
World-Class Onboarding & Validating Hypotheses w/ Intercom & ZalandoProduct School
“Validating Your Product Hypotheses”: The greatest danger in Product is that no one will care about the thing that you’re building. That’s why it’s important to validate your hypothesis with real users before you start building. Terhi Hänninen has used Machine Learning to build customer Intent Prediction at Zalando. She will share her approach for validating hypotheses and tackling completely new customer problems never solved by the company before.
My presentation at EMTACL10, read more here: http://emtacl.com
Blogpost from planning the presentation:
http://idaaalen.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/hva-forventer-en-student-av-et-universitetsbibliotek/
A perennial favorite, join us as we present 50 new technology tips! From new tools to new hacks, start the school season off right with this fast-paced session. Pulling from a broad range of presenters -- from technologists, website administrators, attorneys, to tips from the community -- the hour will fly by!
Panelists:
Talley Wells, Disability Integration Project Director, Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Tony Lu, Citizenship Works Project Coordinator, Pro Bono Net
Kim Marshall, Content Developer and Project Manager, Arkansas Legal Services Partnership
Jessie Posilkin, Training and Implementation Specialist, Legal Services Corporation
Moderator:
Xander Karsten, LawHelp Program Coordinator, Pro Bono Net
This presentation was prepared for principals and vice-principals in the Ottawa Catholic School Board. Technology tips with a focus on web 2.0 tools and free Google tools were the main focus.
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Twin Redheaded Stepchildren of a Different Mother: The Usability of Accessibility
1. Twin Red-Headed Stepchildren of A Different
Mother: The Usability of Accessibility
Michael Fienen, Pittsburg State University
Dylan Wilbanks, ex-University of Washington
HighEdWeb 2011
8. For example
•It’s always left for “later” (and
“later” sometimes never comes)
• People don’t design and develop
with either in mind enough
•And ignoring either one comes
back to bite you in the end
47. Ask your vendor
1. Are ARIA and WCAG checks baked in?
2. Can you require things like alt attributes
and table summaries?
3. Is the CMS backend usable by
someone that's blind?
48. ARIA
•For most CMSs you can code in ARIA
landmarks from the start
•Landmarks are designed to help a
screen reader understand the structure
of the page (role="navigation",
role="main", and role="search")
49. ARIA is more for
futureproofing (support
for ARIA is uneven)
http://www.accessibleculture.org/articles/2011/04/html5-aria-2011/Text
50. Many new HTML5 tags
are mapped to
equivalent roles
http://www.html5accessibility.com/tests/landmarks.html
51. Mind your CSS!
•color contrast (minimum 4.5:1)
•Avoid hiding elements entirely for the
sake of accessibility (including skip to
content links)
(http://www.alistapart.com/articles/now-you-see-
me/)
•When you use :hover, use :focus too
(http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/201004/
whenever_you_use_hover_also_use_focus/)
52. Good semantic coding is
your first line of defense
in both accessibility and
usability
57. JavaScript and
Accessibility
•You can enhance accessibility with
JavaScript + AJAX
•Text sizing
•Input validation
•Focus on progressive enhancement
66. Farm it out instead
•CastingWords
•Transcribr
•AutomaticSync
•Starting at $1 per minute (it's cheaper
than a lawsuit)
67. "Produced" video likely has a
script, which can be the basis for
your captions. You're almost
there already!
68. YouTube resources
•Leaning on YouTube means access to good tools
•Auto-timing vs machine transcription
•Familiar interface
•Consistency in caption tool
•Keyboard accessible player
•All of this INCLUDES lecture capture as well,
not just marketing video.
76. Tools
•See the Delicious stack: http://bit.ly/tnt7
•Not all accessibility guidelines can be
verified through automated scanning
77. Do you have an
accessible technology
lab on campus?
78. Find it. Make friends
with the facilitators and
users.
79. “Do usability testing with
people with disabilities.”
-- Jared Smith
http://webaim.org/blog/accessibility-user-testing/
80. The principles of Rocket
Surgery can be applied
easily to accessibility testing.
81. Nothing is more powerful
than watching someone FAIL
using something you built.
82. If all else fails, try the
Rough Threefold Test
83. Rough Threefold Test
1. Check for colorblindness issues
• In Photoshop CS5 you can easily show how
an image looks to people with color
blindness
(http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/photoshop/
overview.html)
• Alternatively, use the aforementioned color
tests
• Or find someone in your office with color
blindness -- 7-10% of all men
84. Rough Threefold Test
2. The Keyboard Test
• Rip out your mouse
• Try using the site without it (tab keys
and arrows)
• Shake your head in shame
85. Rough Threefold Test
3. The Voice Browser Test
•http://www.iheni.com/quick-tip-testing-web-content-for-
Good: Henny Swan’s tricks
screen-readers-without-a-screen-reader/
•Better: Fangs plugin for Firefox, Firevox
•Best: NVDA (free open source voice
browser) + VoiceOver (baked into OS X)
102. Building Code
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckindel/5432155787/
103. Building Code
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckindel/5432155787/
104. The Good PR Gambit
•Works well if your web office is in this
office
•Announcing accessibility compliance
can be a good buzz generator
•Schools like being the first at
something or comparing to other
region/competitor schools
105. The Enrollment Gambit
•First demonstrate some success with
smaller projects
•Make the case for better usability/
accessibility meaning better tools that
can impact applications/enrollment
106. The IT Gambit
•Approach it like a deliverable
•Outline the specific requirements you
expect to see met
•Be sure you're talking to the right
people, programmers shouldn't relay
requirements to the UI people.
107. In general
•Makes more sense to address the
issue from the top down
•Harder to fix it after the fact
•Less efficient to "just launch what we
have and go back and make it better
later"
108. Frame the issue as being
all about the experience
your users have on the site
109. Give people with disabilities
their own voice, and they will
give voice to your site’s
accessibility problems
111. The takeaway
•Bake in accessibility early and often
•Grill your CMS vendors on accessibility early
and often
•Test and assess early and often
•Push the case for accessibility early and often
•LISTEN to people with disabilities early and
often
113. Matt May
Accessibility Evangelist
Adobe
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stewtopia/2280080016/
114. Here’s the thing: quite often,
accessibility work is time-consuming,
expensive and very technical.
Especially to someone who doesn’t
know all they need to know about
it, or someone who went too far
down the wrong path before
accessibility was called to his or her
attention.
http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2011/01/accessibility-myth-myths/
115. Here’s the thing: quite often,
accessibility work is time-consuming,
expensive and very technical.
Especially to someone who doesn’t
know all they need to know about
it, or someone who went too far
down the wrong path before
accessibility was called to his or her
attention.
http://www.bestkungfu.com/archive/date/2011/01/accessibility-myth-myths/
143. Contact us
Michael
Email: michael@nucloud.com
Web: fienen.com
Twitter: @fienen
Dylan
Email: wnalyd@gmail.com
Web: dylanwilbanks.com
Twitter: @dylanw
Thanks to @ericstoller for the inspiration
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Design can create barriers or connections. \n\nIncluding people with disabilities will increase your audience. When those products are also beautiful they will empower your customers. And there’s a good chance that what you do will be innovative.\nIf the way to contributing is blocked by stairs then we lose out. In this economy, we need innovation. I tell ya, this is where it’s at.\n
This is the Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle. It’s a large outdoor space next to the Puget Sound to display the art museum’s public art. But it was also built with accessibility in mind -- and with a central path designed for universal access. So anyone can walk or roll through the site. The signs are in Braille. It is not perfectly accessible, but they started with universal design and they built a public space that gives everyone in the city a public place to be and enjoy outdoor art.\n