AKS

2. Kurt A. Mueffelmann , President & CEO, HiSoftware Dana Simberkoff , VP Business Development, HiSoftware Lawrence Liu , Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft 3.

• How do Iexpand my market presencethrough the web?

• How do Iavoid litigationsurrounding web accessibility

• How do Iincrease visitors trustthrough brand consistency and messaging?

• Is mywebsite Trustworthy ?

• Is mywebsite functioningat peak efficiency or is there broken links, slow pages, dated information?

• How do I IncreaseCorporate Responsibility?

• How does this effectmy Intranet ?

4.

• Broaden Market Opportunities

• • New customers

• • Increase customer confidence & trust

• • • Brand loyalty and reputation

• • Consistency

• Lessen Risk Management Exposure

• • Regulatory compliance

• • Lawsuit avoidance

• Increase Social Awareness and Corporate Responsibility

5.

• Founded 1998

• 4,000 world-wide customers in 88 countries

• Industry Leading Technical Accessibility Solutions Vendor

• • Single Platform Solution

• • Cynthia Says

• • • Over 20m users

• Microsoft Accessibility ISV

• • SharePoint

• • ATG

• HP Web Governance Partner

• Multi-tiered Distribution Channel

• • International Offices

• • • USA / EU / Aus / Asia

• • Worldwide Resellers

• • Consulting Services Partners

• Triple-digit growth in Revenue

6.

• Welcome& Introduction

• What is Accessibility

• Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS)

• • AKS Overview

• • Deliverables

• • Community

• • Futures

• End-to-end MOSS Compliance with HiSoftware

• QA

8.

• Users may have:

• • Learning difficulties

• • Language fluency problems

• • Hearing impairment

• • Vision impairment

• • Dexterity restrictions

• • Work area restrictions

• • Mobile access, such as in an automobile

• • Disabilities that increase with age

9.

• Assistive technologies can translate information to the user, but only if the information is text-based. An automated screen reader, for example, is programmed to read text.

• This means all Web elements must have text equivalents:

• • Images, multimedia, sounds

• • Tables, frames

• • Scripts, applets, objects

• • Color

• • Style sheets

• • Electronic forms

10. Sighted user see a beach, aquamarine sea and rocks in the foreground Image098.jpg on a travel website A blind or partially sighted user, using a screen reader which reads out image098. 11. Canada

• Canada

• Common Look & Feel Law

• United States

• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

• Section 225 of the Telecommunications Act

• Sections 504 & 508 of the rehabilitation Act

• Workforce Investment Act of 1998

• Assistive Technology Act of 1998

• United Kingdom

• UK Disability Rights Commission recently invoked national law requiring all public website meet accessibility requirements

• UK Disability Discrimination Act of 1995

• Japan

• E-policy for IT

• Australia

• Disability Discrimination Act

Emerging Markets Brazil and China - We are watching these new markets closely.

• Europe

• EU announces 2003 Year of Person with Disabilities and commits web accessibility policy for member states

• European Union Public Policy for Web and E-Inclusion

12.

• NFB vs. Target (in-progress )

• • Judge ruling is that functions performed in-store that are also offered on-line, must be accessible.

• NFB vs. California State University

• Priceline.com and Ramada.com

• • NY State using ADA law, settled out of court.

• Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

• US Federal courts have held that inaccessible web sites can give rise to violations ADA ( Martin v. MARTA )

• Web sites can be places of public accommodation (DOJ)

• UK passes DDA, all web sites must be Accessible

13. Incidence of Difficulties and Likelihood to Benefit from the Use of Accessible Technologyhttp://www.microsoft.com/enable/research/whobenefits.aspx 14.

• Educatesorganizations on Compliance issues

• • Developers, Content Providers, Business Owners etc.

• Auditsthousands of Web Pages

• • Regulatory Requirements

• • Accessibility, Privacy and Security Exposure

• • Brand Risk and Potential Litigation

• EnforcesSpecific Content Standards

• • How do you know which groups are meeting their requirements?

• Measuresfor Site Quality Standards

• • How does you know if sites meet internal standards?

• • Are sites meeting customer experience requirements?

15.

• Build Compliance into Development Life-Cycle with Desktop Solution

• • Identify/resolve content compliance issues at the time of content creation,

• • Test both Transactional and Static Content

• • Integrate into Development Environment or Content Mgmt System

• Audit Content & Quality Monitoring Server Solution

• • Ensure that Corporate and Regulatory Standards for Web Content are adhered to within the organization.

• • Provide a Global Audit of Web Content Compliance status on a scheduled basis and send reports to the proper stakeholders.

• • • Offers Audit/Historic view for measuring progress

• • • Repeatable Process

17.

• Introduction to Purpose of AKS

• Using AKS

• Future Required Enhancements

• Commercial End-to-end Offerings

• • Content Authoring with Workflow

• • SharePoint Site Auditing

18.

• WCAG 1.0 AA / Section 508 accessibility and usability enhancements.

• Components

• • Master pages

• • CSS

• • Templates

• • Web parts content by via control adapters .

• Multi Phased

• • Phase I - Internet and Intranet publishing templates and Web sites.

• • Phase II -Collaboration (wiki/blogs) and team sites

• Community Support

• • Creation, development, support and launch of AKS online community site for SharePoint customers and partners.

20.

• Style sheets enable quick implementation of relative sizing for sites that use the styles shipped with MOSS 2007.

• Master pages implement the new styles and additional template related corrections that provide better usability overall.

• One click implementation of the AKS Style sheets and other accessibility and usability enhancements.

21.

• C# Application developed to help facilitate the change of units for from Absolute to relative units

• Provides a practical more automated solution

• Open and documented conversion figures that are adjustable

30.

• AKS control adapters intercept rendered HTML source before it is output to a browser and selectively alter the output to improve accessibility.

• A control adapter is programmable and extensible to perform a single function or multiple functions.

• AKS control adapters are documented so that they can be implemented in multiple scenarios.