THE BUSINESS CASE FOR INTERNET ACCESSIBILITY AND WHY IT MATTERS TO YOU

Thomas Logan, Chief Technology Officer – HiSoftware

Overview WCAG 2.0

What Why How

Overview

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What is W

CAG 2.0?

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hat is WCAG 2.0?

WCAG 1.0 Section 508

BITV(Germany)

JIS x8341-3

(Japan)

Ministerial Decree(Italy)

PAS 78(UK)

WCAG 2.0

Need for IT Accessibility

Increasing Disabled

Population Worldwide

Internet Access as a Basic Right

Greater Awareness of

Rights of People with Disabilities

Success of Section 508 and

Similar Laws

Why W

CAG 2.0?

WCAG 2.0

Why W

CAG 2.0?

WCAG 2.0

Why W

CAG 2.0?

WCAG 2.0

Why W

CAG 2.0?

Why W

CAG 2.0?

Principles

Guidelines

Success Criteria

Techniques

Challenge 1: Different Terminology & Taxonomy

Guidelines

Checkpoints

Techniques

Why W

CAG 2.0?Challenge 2: Overlapping Techniques

Guideline 1

Success Criteria 1

Technique 1

Technique 2

Success Criteria 2

Technique 3

Technique 4

HISOFTWARE COMPLIANCE SHERIFFAutomating WCAG 2.0 Compliance

How to M

eet WCAG 2.0?

A Complex Problem…Solved with Automation

Repeatable

Practical

Measurable

• Automated checks for International standards

• Easily customized by your staff to meet your specific regulatory governance requirements

• Repeatable testing incorporated into the content life-cycle

• Reduces time & money spent on manual testing / custom solutions

• Standardizing testing takes the guesswork out of content compliance

• Scalable - include only the compliance options you need

• Provides visibility to compliance issues across the enterprise (Executive to developer)

• Tracks site compliance over time• Automated monitoring/auditing to

keep content compliant

Deliver highest standards compliance...automatically

How to M

eet WCAG 2.0?

Built In Checkpoints Customizable

Testing Compliance Level

Testing Specific Guideline

Testing WCAG2 Best Practices

• Start with most common issues that exist on site– Page Templates– Style Sheets

• Meet Compliance Level A first• Focus on key scenarios/pages • Group related manual test work• Document work to demonstrate process

Identifying Common Issues

• Count number of occurrences for all guidelines

Identifying Common Issues

• Count number of occurrences for specific guideline

Identifying Common Issues

Compliance for Key Scenarios

Manual Testing

• Warnings and Visual checks require manual inspection

• Use Result Revision Wizard to mark content• Audit trail for who and when issue was

verified

Reporting / Documentation

• Manual and Automated verification roll up for one central report

CSS Scanning

CSS Scanning – Error Highlighting

• Errors Highlighted on Page

Scanning – Error Highlighting

• Errors Highlighted on Page

User Variables

• Customize multiple checkpoints at once2.4.3 Focus Order2.4.7 Focus Visible 3.2.1 On Focus

User Variables / Customize Rules

User Variables

WCAG 2.0 Wrap-Up

• Automation is a necessity to organize the work for verifying WCAG2 Compliance

• Manual verification is unavoidable• Prioritizing key scenarios and documenting

progress are crucial• WCAG 2 features are constantly evolving as

new customer scenarios evolve

Raising the Bar on Proactive Content Compliance

Periodic Monitoring and Reporting

Checking Content onDemand

Checking Content Before Posting as Part of the SharePoint Workflow

Making SharePoint Infrastructure Compliant

How to M

eet WCAG 2.0?

ALT Text Missing

• People working with disabled colleagues always forget to put alt text on the images in their documents making them non-compliant and usable

• The Compliance Sheriff workflow lets you educate your enterprise and guide users to include the necessary information to make documents easy to use for all users

User Uploads Document

Email Notification

Accessibilty ALT Text

Accessibilty ALT Text

Accessibilty ALT Text

Accessibilty ALT Text

Accessibilty ALT Text

Insufficient Color Contrast

• People in an office environment often highlight or use their own conventions for marking information. Vision impairments are very common. The Web content accessibility guidelines include clear rules for color contrast settings.

• The Compliance Sheriff check scan lets the document creator know if the content will be difficult to see for users with vision impairments

How to M

eet WCAG 2.0?

Color Contrast

• Questions

• Thomas Logan (t.logan@hisoftware.com)– Chief Technology Officer