Kurt A. Mueffelmann, President & CEO, HiSoftwareDana Simberkoff, VP Business Development, HiSoftwareLawrence Liu, Senior Technical Product Manager, Microsoft
How do I expand my market presence through the web?How do I avoid litigation surrounding web accessibilityHow do I increase visitors trust through brand consistency and messaging?Is my website Trustworthy?Is my website functioning at peak efficiency or is there broken links, slow pages, dated information?How do I Increase Corporate Responsibility?How does this effect my Intranet?
Broaden Market OpportunitiesNew customersIncrease customer confidence & trust
Brand loyalty and reputationConsistency
Lessen Risk Management ExposureRegulatory complianceLawsuit avoidance
Increase Social Awareness and Corporate Responsibility
Founded 19984,000 world-wide customers in 88 countriesIndustry Leading Technical Accessibility Solutions Vendor
Single Platform Solution“Cynthia Says”
Over 20m users
Microsoft Accessibility ISVSharePoint ATG
HP Web Governance PartnerMulti-tiered Distribution Channel
International Offices USA / EU / Aus / Asia
Worldwide ResellersConsulting Services Partners
Triple-digit growth in Revenue
I. Welcome & Introduction
II. What is Accessibility
III.Accessibility Kit for SharePoint (AKS)I. AKS Overview
II. Deliverables
III.Community
IV.Futures
IV.End-to-end MOSS Compliance with HiSoftware
V.QA
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
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
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”.
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 ActEmerging
MarketsBrazil 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”
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.comNY 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
Incidence of Difficulties and Likelihood to Benefit from the Use of Accessible Technology
http://www.microsoft.com/enable/research/whobenefits.aspx
Educates organizations on Compliance issues Developers, Content Providers, Business Owners etc.
Audits thousands of Web PagesRegulatory Requirements Accessibility, Privacy and Security ExposureBrand Risk and Potential Litigation
Enforces Specific Content StandardsHow do you know which groups are meeting their requirements?
Measures for Site Quality Standards How does you know if sites meet internal standards? Are sites meeting customer experience requirements?
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 ContentIntegrate into Development Environment or Content Mgmt System
Audit Content & Quality Monitoring Server SolutionEnsure 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 progressRepeatable Process
Introduction to Purpose of AKS
Using AKS
Future Required Enhancements
Commercial End-to-end OfferingsContent Authoring with WorkflowSharePoint Site Auditing
WCAG 1.0 AA / Section 508 accessibility and usability enhancements.Components
Master pagesCSSTemplatesWeb parts content by via control adapters.
Multi PhasedPhase I - Internet and Intranet publishing templates and Web sites. Phase II - Collaboration (wiki/blogs) and team sites
Community SupportCreation, development, support and launch of AKS online community site for SharePoint customers and partners.
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.
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
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.
This methodology can also be used for custom code.
The Adapters consist of three parts: An adapter file, written in C#An Example of the Compat.browser entryA screen shot of where to place the file
These files and guidance provide a mechanism that allows site owners, developers, third party tool or web part developers to provide a more usable and accessible wrapper.
The kit includes 24 control adapters that address accessibility issues across Internet and Intranet sites, but also address interface accessibility issues as applicable
Documentation provides examples for deployment on new sites as well as guidance for migration of existing sites.
AKS 1.1 will provide new control adapters and updates for the collaborative scenario within MOSS 2007
This includes updates for WIKIs and BLOGS
http://aks.hisoftware.comhttp://aks.hisoftware.com
AKS is available via Microsoft Public License recently approved by the Open Source Initiative as an open source project (no-cost) and with an open API and SDK-enabling extensibility.
AKS contains tutorials and education-empowering others to “build accessible”.
Customer can utilize the documented “AKS” approach and open architecture to extend accessibility to custom templates and controls.
Smart Adapters – Automation of control adapters through install settings
Additional adapters and remediationWeb part zone controlXHTML 1.0 Strict Validation example – brute forceValidating page against a DTD or a schemaAdditional requirements under Canadian Common Look and Feel guidelines (CLF 2.0)Improvements to accessibility and usability of Web based access to document libraries through the creation of additional control adapters as practicable
Compliance for WCAG 2.0 AA Candidate Recommendation
French language version of AKS 1.0 Scenarios for Web Content Management (other languages pending)
Accessible Output (XHTML) or HTML OutputAccessible INPUT – Validate Accessibility of Entry with the likely hood of an accessible Harness
Character formattingBold
Paragraph formattingList bulletList numberQuoteTable of figures inc row and/or column headingsHyperlinkHeadings - levels 1-4ALT-TXT for picturesCaption for picturesSource Editing
Table Repair utility-will allow creation of accessible data tables within MOSSForm Creation and Remediation
Extra Features Extra Features will include:will include:
Character formattingItalicUnderline
Text EditingCut, Copy and PasteSpell Checking…
…And all of the other options that the market considers to be standard within today’s
editors.
From Application layer through to Content Authoring and Auditing
Sue, content provider, updates content
through the MOSS web console. She uses Page Tester for
SharePoint.
Rob, an Executive, uses Compliance
Sheriff for SharePoint to run scheduled reports. He is responsible content and regulatory
compliance for the entire Web.
Rebecca manages the QA team. She tests all the pages
in batch using AccRepair for SharePoint .
Tom, a Web developer, uses AccRepair for SharePoint Designer. He benefits from automatic repairs, and also performs some repairs manually.
MOSS 2007Page Tester for SharePoint
Compliance Sheriff for SharePoint
Joe, who is of legal counsel, receives regular updates on compliance for content and web governance as a user of Compliance Sheriff for SharePoint.
Application LayerApplication Layer
Development & Development & DesignDesign
Content Authoring Content Authoring LayerLayer Content TestingContent Testing
WorkflowWorkflow
Audit & ReviewAudit & Review
Content Content Accessibility on Accessibility on per Page basisper Page basis
Integrated Back-end Integrated Back-end workflowworkflow
Basic ArchitectureBasic Architecture
AccessibilityAccessibilityCollaborative Collaborative Workflow and Workflow and
Scorecard ReportingScorecard Reporting
Content CreatorContent CreatorDesignerDesigner WorkflowWorkflow Enterprise GovernanceEnterprise Governance
HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff for
MOSS
HiSoftware Compliance Sheriff for
MOSS
HiSoftware AccMonitor for
MOSS
HiSoftware AccMonitor for
MOSS
HiSoftware PageTester for
MOSS
HiSoftware PageTester for
MOSS
AccRepair for SharePoint Designer
AccRepair for SharePoint Designer
AKS provides accessibility improvements to MOSS application through content, web pages, templates, etc
AKS provides accessibility improvements to MOSS application through content, web pages, templates, etc
Allows content providers to test and validate individual MOSS pages on accessibility through hosted test prior to publication.
Allows content providers to test and validate individual MOSS pages on accessibility through hosted test prior to publication.
Provides direct workflow integration and business process to ensure compliance fro MOSS
Provides direct workflow integration and business process to ensure compliance fro MOSS
Monitors, tests and identifies compliancy requirements for accessibility, privacy, data security through dashboard scorecard and drill down reporting in web-browser environment.
Monitors, tests and identifies compliancy requirements for accessibility, privacy, data security through dashboard scorecard and drill down reporting in web-browser environment.
identify what is
best solution
identify what is
best solution
Validate content prior to publishing througha browser.
Quickly Identify what content passed or what failed and why.
Code is used in either approving or rejecting the item upon running the workflow. If the file passes the HiSoftware Accessibility Check, it is approved, otherwise it is rejected.
Approved &Completed
Rejected &Completed
Complete compliance suite for SharePointAccessibility CompliancePrivacy & Information Data VulnerabilityMarket Site Quality (corporate standards)Intranet StandardsCommunity ComplianceCustomized Checkpoints
Electronic Report notification Integration into MOSS Business IntelligenceScalable & Flexible
Hosted or self-hostedSubscription-based pricing
Strongly Regulated in most Geographies
Provides Expanded Market Opportunity
End-to-End Technology SolutionApplication LayerContent AuthorOn-going Audit Compliance
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