How do you know if your web site is accessible? Can automated testing tools help? Glenda Sims will share gems from her 10+ years of experience testing sites for accessibility. Equip yourself with free and powerful testing tools. Learn how to turn it up a notch when you need to monitor accessibility across a vast enterprise. See some of the very latest testing tools that will help you evaluate color contrast, dynamic content and WAI-ARIA compliance

1. Practical Accessibility Testing Your Chance to the Web

2. Glenda the Goodwitch webstandards.org knowbility.org deque.com

3. Open WebForEveryone toconnect communicate share & build knowledge opportunity to reach our full potential

4. The Open Web is for Everyone and on Everything Not just for star bellied sneetches with iPhones

5. Open Web = Accessible Web When all users regardless of disability can obtain the same information and perform the same functions

8. Oscar Pistorius Blade Runner Fastest man on no legs Ruled Ineligible for Bejing Olympics

9. His prosthetics make himmore than able-bodied

10. AccSEXYbility

11. Practical Accessibility Testing How Open Are You?

12. Ensuring Accessibility Testing Tools User Testing Open Web Design Process

13. Open Web Ecosystem Build with valid code http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/

14. Accessibility Testing Tools Accessibility/Web Standards Validators Listening with screenreaders Testing with keyboard / no speakers Authoring Tool accessibility features Enterprise Accessibility Reports

15. Accessibility Validators - Page by Page CSS/HTML Validators The Wave Web Developer for Firefox Accessibility Toolbar for IE Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser FireEyes Accessibility Tools can only automatically test approximately 27% of the issues. Accessibility Testing Requires the Human Brain

16. Testing a Site www.utsports.com or www.texassports.comHTML/CSS Validator http://validator.w3.org/unicorn/ Wave http://wave.webaim.org/ Web Developer (Firefox Extension) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser http://juicystudio.com/article/colour-contrast-analyser-firefox-extension.php#downloadextension Headings Map http://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/headingsmap/

17. Testing a Site www.utsports.com or www.texassports.comFireEyes www.deque.com/products/deque-labs/worldspace-fireeyes

18. Listen Real test: Can users with disabilities actually use your site? Test representative pages with a screenreader JAWS screenreaderwww.freedomscientific.com Fangs screenreaderemulator standards-schmandards.com/projects/fangs

19. Keyboard Alone Test representative pages with a keyboard alone. Mouse requires mobility & vision Keyboard Accessallows assistive technology access

20. No Speakers Test multimedia pages with no speakers

21. Enterprise Tools Define URL & Spider Profile Select Testing Criteria Reports of Progress Over Time

23. Importance of User Testing

24. User Testing Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design By Shawn Lawton Henry www.uiaccess.com/justask/ Accessibility is a subset of Usability Testing.

25. A Practical Testing Plan Code Validation Browser Testing turn off images don’t use the mouse turn off speakers Online Accessibility Testing (representative pages) use more than one tool, example: Wave & FireEyes Screenreader Testing JAWS Enterprise Accessibility Report like Worldspace Hands-on Accessibility Testing

26. 26 Web development process

27. 27 Accessible web development Equip Adopt development and test tools Integrate with IDE, WCM and Testing tools Plan Assess site, people, process Benchmark industry Review design and coding standards Develop roadmap Empower Role-specific training Test Distributed unit tests Centralized, automated tests Expert usability evaluation with assistive technology Sustain Continuous monitoring Vendor verification New employee training Remediate Prioritize Fix Retest

28. Create an Accessibility Plan Gather Baseline Information Gain Top Level Support Organize Web Accessibility Group Define a Standard Create an Implementation Plan Provide Training and Technical Support Monitor Conformance Remain Flexible Through Changes WebAim 8 Step Implementation Model www.webaim.org/articles/implementation 28

29. Public Members Employees Geeks Implementation Strategy - Prioritize Top 10% of pages based on use Critical Pages (required for your business purpose) Audience 29

30. Implementation Strategies Accessible (immediately, no excuses) All new or revised pages Top 10% pages (based on analytics) Critical pages Accessibility pages Accessible by (date) Legacy Web Pages * * encourages archive of old / outdated pages! 30

31. Good Design is Accesible design It is up to YOU! For most people technology makes things easier. For people with disabilities, technology makes things possible. @goodwitch glenda.sims@deque.com President’s Council on Disabilities