Opening Doors to Technology Accessibility

Technology accessibility is crucial for creating a fair and equal digital experience for all users. This includes making content understandable to assistive technology, ensuring fair and equal availability regardless of users' devices or disabilities. Assistive technologies play a key role in bridging the gap for individuals with various needs such as visual impairments, deafness, motor disabilities, and more. By addressing these accessibility challenges, we can level the playing field and promote inclusivity in the digital world.

• Technology Accessibility
• Inclusivity
• Assistive Technology
• Equal Access
• Digital Experience

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1. Opening Doors Information Technology Accessibility, and How You Can Help to Level the Playing Field.

2. Disclaimer Oklahoma statute authorizes ABLE Tech to coordinate with the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to provide technical assistance to agencies concerning the requirements of EITA in Oklahoma. This technical assistance is intended solely as informal guidance; it is not a determination of the legal rights or responsibilities of entities subject to Oklahoma statute or section 508.

3. TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBILITY What is it? Why do we need to worry about it?

4. Accessibility is about Technology compatibility Make digital content as understandable to technology as possible. Fair and equal Make the experience equivalent regardless of factors we cannot control. Universal access Don t restrict anyone from getting where they want to go.

5. Make content understandable to technology. Searches Assistive technology (AT) Technology Compatibility

6. Fair and equal availability Make the experience as equivalent as possible regardless of what we cannot control. Computer type Tablet size Smart phone operating system Disability and assistive technology Visual Hearing Motor Cognitive

7. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY INTERLUDE

8. Blindness, low vision, color blindness, etc. Glasses Operating system zoom features Screen reading software Braille readers Visual disabilities

9. Full/partial deafness Captioned video Transcribed audio Hearing disabilities

10. Technology as AT

11. Motor disabilities Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, full/partial paralysis, fine motor Keyboards Adaptive switches Breath controls

12. Wide spectrum of AT

13. Be intentionally inclusive. Don t discriminate. Universal access

14. Our Goal

15. THE LEGAL STUFF Some Clarification About What Applies to What

16. Statute and policy Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title I, employment Title II, public sector Title III, private sector Section 504 and Section 508 of the Federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 1998 State Oklahoma Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility (EITA) statute, effective 2005

17. Policy Changes Title II, Title III of ADA set to include information technology Section 508 standards refresh Oklahoma will update its statute as well Department of Justice has been clear

18. Complaints in Brief Experian, TransUnion, Equifax, 2008 http://lflegal.com/2008/04/credit-report-agreement/ CVS, 2009 http://lflegal.com/2009/07/cvs-agreement/ Penn State University, 2011 https://nfb.org/node/958 Montgomery County, Maryland, 2011 https://nfb.org/node/996 From karlgroves.com, http://goo.gl/bGJwRJ

19. Lots of Opportunities Here Take responsibility for civil rights Include more people in community, education, economy Improve employment Increase revenue Lower risk Create better experiences for all users Make sure that the message is clear to the largest audience

20. ACCESSIBILITY AND YOU How Accessibility Fits and How You Can Help to Put It On.

21. Accessibility Fits All Shapes and Sizes! Purchasing Product implementation Design Software development New products Enhancements to existing products

22. Roles and Accessibility Analyst Front end designer Application developer Content author/manager Quality assurance specialist Technical writer

23. Pigeonholing Accessibility Rely on one person in QA? Add inefficiency Delay rollout Spotty accessibility Invite sudden, late-game changes Increase stress and job satisfaction fail Lose sustainability

24. Roles and Accessibility Analyst Account for dynamic elements, etc. Designer Account for color, layout, etc. Developer Make it happen, functionally Content author/owner Make it happen, in content Quality Assurance Check for barriers Technical Writer Document for future reference

25. Development Your mileage may vary Agile Waterfall Random Gather requirements (Accessibility, too) Design backend, layout (Accessibility, too) Write code (Accessibility, too) Testing Internal (Accessibility, too) External (UAT) Documentation (Accessibility, too)

26. Product Selection and Implementation Gather requirements (Accessibility, too) Identify candidate products (Accessibility, too) Vet products (Accessibility, too) Make selection (Accessibility, too) Plan implementation (Accessibility, too) Make it so (Accessibility, too)

27. Distributing Accessibility Spread accessibility throughout project roles Create efficiency Speed delivery Create more accessibility Avoid sudden, late-game changes Lower stress of implementing accessibility Create sustainability

28. A closer look at how accessibility fits into project team roles http://goo.gl/WPh06t Part of the valuable Web Experience Toolkit Matches roles with specific accessibility standards Accessibility Responsibility Breakdown

29. Accessibility in Project Management Build it in, don t bolt it on Schedule time to learn it Motivate team to do it Compete with another team or individual Speak to the players, movers and shakers Make it a priority in your projects Pilot project? Embrace role as change agent

30. Questions? Rob Carr, Accessibility Coordinator Email: rgcarr@okstate.edu Oklahoma ABLE Tech Oklahoma State University 1-800-257-1705 http://www.ok.gov/abletech/IT_Accessibility/inde x.html @okabletech on Twitter