The WAI to Web Accessibility

What we will cover

• Who WAI are
• What resources are available
• How they might be used
• Where to find them

Who WAI are

W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) develops strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible for people with disabilities.

• Accessibility support in W3C technologies
• Guidelines for implementing accessibility
• Methods for evaluating accessibility
• Conducting education and outreach
• Coordinating with research and development
• Standards harmonization

Starting with accessibility

If you are considering accessibility for the first time, what is the first thing you would do?

There are standards on Web accessibility, why not just read them?

How people with disabilities use the web

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web

Accessibility principles

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/people-use-web/principles

Introduction to Web accessibility

URI: http://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility

Essential components of Web accessibility

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/components.php

Essential components of Web accessibility

And now a standard

URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

• WCAG 2.0 (aka ISO/IEC 40500:2012)
• Set of guidelines for making content accessible

WCAG 2 at a Glance

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/glance/

WCAG 2.0 Principles

Perceivable: Content can be perceived by all users

Operable: Interface is operable by all users

Understandable: Information and functionality is clear to all users

Robust: Content functions reliably regardless of user agent

WCAG 2.0

WCAG presents a series of Success Criteria that specify requirements to meet in order for a website to be considered accessible.

Success Criteria are grouped by Guidelines, which are in turn grouped by Principles.

Each Success Criteria has Informative Techniques to assist in meeting Success Criteria and Common Failures known to cause problems.

WCAG 2.0 Example

	Example
Guideline	Guideline 1.2: Provide alternatives for time-based media.
Success Criteria	1.2.2 Captions (Prerecorded): Captions are provided for all prerecorded audio content in synchronized media [...].
Technique	G93: Providing open (always visible) captions
Common Failure	F8: Failure of Success Criterion 1.2.2 due to captions omitting some dialogue or important sound effects

How to meet WCAG 2.0

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/Overview.php

Training accessibility

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/training/Overview

Accessible training

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/training/accessible.php

Before and After Demonstration

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/demos/bad/

Tutorials

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/

Easy Checks

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/preliminary

Involving Users in Web Accessibility Evaluation

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/users

WCAG-EM Reporting Tool

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/eval/report-tool/

Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/ER/tools/index.html

Strategic Planning for Web Accessibility

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/impl/

Developing Organizational Policies

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/impl/pol

Improving the Accessibility of Your Website

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/impl/improving

Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/Overview.html

Web Accessibility and Older People

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/older-users/Overview.php

Mobile and accessibility

URI: http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/experiences.html

And lots more...

WAI are constantly developing new resources and there are many ways that you can contribute.

Visit the WAI website (https://www.w3.org/WAI/) to find out more.

WAI at AccessU

• Catching up with Accessibility: Beginners’ Basics — Shawn Henry, Monday, 10:15
• Easy Checks for Web Accessibility: Get the Gist (No Experience Necessary) — Shawn Henry, Monday, 14:15
• Web Accessibility Essentials using WAI-ARIA and HTML5 — Eric Eggert, Monday, 16:00
• WCAG Conformance Evaluation Process — Shadi About-Zahra, Tuesday, 14:15
• A Case Study for Responsive Web Design: Web Accessibility Tutorials — Eric Eggert, Tuesday, 16:00

WAI at AccessU

New WAI Tools Feedback

Help improve new WAI tools and resources. We have 3 different prototypes that we'd love for you to try out and give us feedback on.

We will be in Room JBWS 165 most of Monday and Tuesday. Please come by if you have 10 minutes or so and are willing to take a look.

WAI at AccessU

W3C WAI Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) Meeting

Meeting on Wednesday 13 May and Thursday 14 May around AccessU. We welcome a limited number of visitors to this EOWG face-to-face.

If you would be interested in participating in the meeting and you are not a current EOWG participant, please e-mail EOWG Chairs Sharron and Shawn (srush@knowbility.org,shawn@w3.org).