Learn how proposed WCAG 2.1 success criteria are being developed to meet the needs of people with cognitive disabilities. Presented at CSUN 2017 by Lisa Seeman and Mary Jo Mueller.
The Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force is a task force of the Accessible Platform Architectures Working Group (APA) and the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AG WG).
Aim: To improve Web accessibility for people with cognitive and learning disabilities.
This will begin with research and gap analysis.
Then the group developed draft proposed guidance and techniques to make web content, content authoring, and user agent implementation accessible and more useable by people with cognitive and learning disabilities. We also reviewed existing techniques to consider ways to improve them, and proposed new techniques, where necessary.
Addressing these issues requires us to make a broader view of solutions for accessibility.
Select a phased approach. In our first phase we looked at eight different disabilities or categories that cut across types of cognitive impairment in terms of severity and brain function.
Compile user research and literary studies. These literary reviews means that key findings are in the public domain and are easily available.
Author a series of issue papers that explore topics beyond simple content such as security or personalization.
Compile a list of authoring techniques that includes the most useful strategies from all the different user group research
Review the techniques and issue papers to identify the gaps between what is currently supported in accessibility and in the web architecture and what is needed to enable accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities
Create a roadmap on how we can fill these gaps.
Create testable and widely adoptable set of success criteria that let authors know exactly what they need to do and when they have completed the task. (This will then become the basis for the extension to WCAG for cognitive)
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
* FPWD means First Public Working Draft
Integration of key components to drive the user experience:
API Support
Issue support
Different standards E.g. Voice, Security
Portable preferences
External services
In page Semantics
WAI-ARIA
WCAG