Here is some selected material from a presentation at the "I Invent the
Future” Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007
http://gracehopper.org/2007/
Note that there is additional information in the Notes section for these
“slides”.
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Making the Future Web Accessible to People with Disabilities, S.L. Henry.
W3C (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), October 2007.
www.w3.org/WAI/presentations/20071019-GHC-future-material.ppt
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Making the Future WebAccessibleto People with Disabilities
ShawnLawtonHenry
MITMassachusetts Institute of Technology
W3C WAI
Shawn Lawton Henry
Just Ask:Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design
Understanding Web Accessibility
Everyone Interfaces
Examples of web accessibility Accessibility barriers
Developing websites
Evaluating web accessibility
•Tool
•Humans
Accessibility issues
Alt text Headings markup List markup Link text Color contrast Text resizing Transcripts, Captions . . .
Benefits
Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organizationwww.w3.org/WAI/bcase/
•Social factors
•Financial factors
•Technical factors
•Legal and policy factors
Accessibility
Designing so that more customers
can use your web site effectively
in more situations.
Within an organization
Are the organization’s websites accessible?
Does the organization have a web accessibility policy?
Is accessibility included in project requirements?
Is it included in assessments, RFPs, and purchasing requirements for authoring tools, browsers, and other web software?