Introduction to "How People with Disabilities Use the Web" In-Suite Navigation Introduction How do people who cannot move their arms use your website? What about people who cannot see well or at all? This resource introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web. This resource includes the following pages: Stories of Web Users - stories of selected scenarios of people with disabilities using the Web, to highlight the effect of barriers and the broader benefits of accessible websites and web tools. Tips: There are additional supporting materials available on the Web, such as videos of how people with disabilities use the Web . [Top of Page | Next Page - Stories of Web Users]
AccessiWeb - Accueil Welcome to Treehouse, Start Learning Today Web Accessibility | Accessible Technology In order to assure that websites and web applications are accessible to and usable by everyone, designers and developers must follow web accessibility guidelines. Each of the following topics address issues that are especially common on UW websites. See also our annotated list of web accessibility Tools and Resources. Features of Accessible Websites Additional information is available on the AccessComputing website 30 Web Accessibility Tips. Checking a Website for Accessibility You can go a long way toward assuring your website is accessible by following these simple steps: Validate your HTML. Developing Accessible Sites Using WordPress UW Marketing has created a UW WordPress Theme with input from UW-IT Accessible Technology Services. WordPress is an easy-to-use, highly flexible content management system for creating and managing websites. What is Web Accessibility? People who use the web have a growing variety of characteristics. Unable to see.
Color Theory Tutorial by Worqx Why study color theory? If you are involved in the creation or design of visual documents, an understanding of color will help when incorporating it into your own designs. Choices regarding color often seem rather mystical, as many seem to base decisions on nothing other than "it looks right." Although often told I had an eye for color, the reason why some colors worked together while others did not always intrigued me and I found the study of color theory fascinating. While attending the University of Minnesota I enrolled in almost every course I could from different departments: graphic design, interior design, and fine arts. During my studies, I learned that there were 2 main reasons why scholars investigated color—the first involved the communication of colors; the other involved the application of color. Communicating Color What is red? HTML Red Pantone® Red Pantone® Warm Red TRUEMATCH® 6-a Color Application The next several pages of this site offer a tutorial regarding color theory.
Sensibiliser à l’accessibilité : dans la peau de l’utilisateur Il est une question que posent souvent ceux qui, ayant déjà embrassé la cause de l’accessibilité, souhaitent convaincre d’autres personnes d’y aller : comment s’y prendre ? Quel discours, quelle forme adopter ? La Journée Mondiale de Sensibilisation à l’Accessibilité (GAAD en anglais), qui a lieu tous les 15 mai, m’a paru la bonne occasion pour partager une idée que j’ai testée récemment. Mon expérience de la chose m’a appris que la démonstration des difficultés éprouvées par un utilisateur (généralement, au moyen d’un lecteur d’écran) sur un site réel, est très efficace. Le souci est qu’il faut compter sur l’empathie des spectateurs. L’étape suivante est de leur faire utiliser eux-mêmes le lecteur d’écran, pour leur faire ressentir toute la frustration que cela peut engendrer, même sur une page simplissime en apparence. L’inconvénient de cette approche, c’est sa logistique. On pourrait alors imaginer de diversifier les démos et présenter différentes technologies d’assistance.
QIAT - Quality Indicators for Assistive Technology Services - Welcome Accessibility - Site Information - University System of Georgia Accessibility is a high priority issue for the Board of Regents (BoR) of the University System of Georgia (USG). By endorsing Web accessibility guidelines established by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), USG enables full access to institutional information, programs and activities offered through the Web. To this end: The Advanced Learning Technologies group* developed background information on the Americans with Disabilities Act and higher education institutions’ responsibilities for providing accessible websites and learning environments.The BoR has established a Web Accessibility and Persons with Disabilities resource**, a comprehensive site detailing accessibility guidelines and tools for all USG institutions.Since June 2001, every effort has been made to design and develop Web pages that comply with or exceed the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). *The Advanced Learning Technologies group is no longer active. Web Accessibility Resources
Gestalt principles of form perception by Mads Soegaard Gestalt psychology attempts to understand psychological phenomena by viewing them as organised and structured wholes rather than the sum of their constituent parts. Thus, Gestalt psychology dissociates itself from the more 'elementistic'/reductionistic/decompositional approaches to psychology like structuralism (with its tendency to analyse mental processes into elementary sensations) and it accentuates concepts like emergent properties, holism, and context. In the 30s and 40s Gestalt psychology was applied to visual perception, most notably by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Khler, and Kurt Koffka who founded the so-called gestalt approaches to form perception. Their aim was to investigate the global and holistic processes involved in perceiving structure in the environment (e.g. Sternberg 1996). Law of proximity Figure 1.A: A real-world example of the law of proximity from MTV Music Awards 2002 Law of similarity Law of Prgnanz (figure-ground) Law of symmetry Figure 4.A.: CSC Finland's logo. 1.
Web Accessibility Toolbar for IE - 2012 The Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT) for IE - 2012 can assist in evaluating a web page for compliance to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). The WAT was developed by Steve Faulkner in a collaboration between Vision Australia, The Paciello Group (Europe) and Jun of the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium. Download Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT) for IE - 2012 What is the Web Accessibility Toolbar? The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been developed to aid manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects of accessibility. Identify components of a web page Provide access to alternate views of page content Facilitate the use of third party online applications System requirements Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8, Internet Explorer 9 or 10. Please note: It is important that if you have a previous version of the toolbar installed, un-install it before installing this version. Terms of use notice The Web Accessibility Toolbar is Freeware. We value all feedback received.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, 2005 - O. Reg. 191/11 Français made under the Made: April 13, 2011 Filed: June 3, 2011 Published on e-Laws: June 7, 2011 Printed in The Ontario Gazette: June 18, 2011 Purpose and application 1. (1) This Regulation establishes the accessibility standards for each of information and communications, employment and transportation. (2) The requirements in the standards set out in this Regulation are not a replacement or a substitution for the requirements established under the Human Rights Code nor do the standards limit any obligations owed to persons with disabilities under any other legislation. (3) Except as otherwise provided in this Regulation, this Regulation applies to the Government of Ontario, the Legislative Assembly, every designated public sector organization and to every other person or organization that provides goods, services or facilities to the public or other third parties and that has at least one employee in Ontario. Definitions 2. Establishment of accessibility policies 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Training 1.
8 trillion reasons to make your technology accessible January 07, 2014, 6:30 AM — An electronic voting machine with tactile controls Image credit: flickr/AccessibleVoting If you develop technology of any sort, do you make sure it's accessible to people with disabilities? If you don't think it's worth the time and effort, a recent report from Gartner should provide a lot of new reasons to rethink whether it's worth your time. Specifically, 8 trillion reasons or, rather, $8 trillion worth. $8 trillion is what Gartner estimates to be the amount of disposable income held by the worldwide population of people with disabilities and their immediate family and friends. 15% of the world population, 1 billion people, have a disability. If the size of that market - aside from good old altruism - still isn't enough to convince you to deploy accessible technologies, Gartner raises another good reason: technologies developed for the disabled can also often benefit the non-disabled. Hopefully these are enough reasons to get companies (like yours!)