Presented at teh 2014 M-Enabling conference, this presentation highlights EZFire's survey results. The resently ocmpleted survey presents insights into the current level of implementation from the industry's perspective.
2. A Brief Overview:
ï About EZFire
ï Overview of EZFire survey
ï Testing and QA
ï Legal V. policy and engineer-driven accessibility
ï rich- media, captioning, audio description and online
video
ï Interfaces and ACS
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3. About EZFire
ï Providing services since 2006
ï Focusing on testing, compliance, Section 508, WCAG,
CVAA, documents, videos
ï Testers, users with disabilities; database of more than
256 trusted testers
ï Efforts driven by an international aproach
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4. Overview of EZFire CVAA survey
ï Informal survey begun in 2012 to track data on CVAA
compliance efforts
ï Tracking data for three years
ï Formalizing this survey this year + a consumer survey
in a month
ï Data available to the public for examination
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5. Overview of EZFire CVAA survey (2)
ï Tracking questions on:
ï Documentation
ï Management of accessibility
ï Employees, structure, services
ï Testing and QA
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6. Testing and QA
ï Two companies in 2012 v 58 in 2014 who report
conducting testing
ï 29 do not conduct testing
ï Approximately 75% (43) companies report conducting
testing with people with disabilities
ï Nearly 60% (35) companies utilize outside
organizations to conduct testing
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7. legal v. policy/Engineering
ï All respondents report legal departments being
involved in CVAA compliance
ï In 2012 90% of all accessibility was being driven by
legal
ï 2014 accessibility occurs through policy or engineering
with 81% (72) respondent companies
ï 100% of respondents have changed practices because
of CVAA
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8. Rich media, captioning, Description
ï Less than 50% of rspondents need to consider captioning
or audio description
ï 98% of those report full captioning compliance on
television networks
ï 5 companies investing in internal infrastructures to
generate audio description
ï All report investigating online captioning presence but
only a few have captioning online
ï Audio description not present online because of lack of
requirement
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9. Rich media, captioning, Description
ï 40% of respondents believe that they are not required
to comply with ACS provisions of the CVAA whereas
they actually are required
ï 14 respondents currently working on efforts to make
playback and other video controller interfaces
accessible as opposed to 3 in 2012
ï 32 respondents are not doing so working when they
are, in fact required to do so.
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