THE BUSINESS CASE FOR INTERNET
ACCESSIBILITY AND WHY IT
MATTERS TO YOU
Thomas Logan, Chief Technology Officer – HiSoftware
What
Why
How
Overview
Overview WCAG 2.0
What is WCAG 2.0?
HTML
XML
WCAG
What is WCAG 2.0?
Evolution
WCAG 1.0
Section
508
BITV
(Germany)
JIS x83413
Ministerial
Decree
(Japan)
(Italy)
PAS 78
(UK)
WCAG 2.0
Why WCAG 2.0?
Internet Access
as a Basic Right
Increasing
Disabled
Population
Worldwide
Greater
Awareness of
Rights of People
with Disabilities
Success of
Section 508 and
Similar Laws
Need for IT
Accessibility
Why WCAG 2.0?
WCAG 2.0
Why WCAG 2.0?
WCAG 2.0
Why WCAG 2.0?
WCAG 2.0
Guidelines
Checkpoints
Techniques
Principles
Guidelines
Success Criteria
Techniques
Why WCAG 2.0?
Challenge 1: Different Terminology & Taxonomy
Success
Criteria 1
Guideline 1
Success
Criteria 2
Technique
1
Technique
2
Technique
3
Technique
4
Why WCAG 2.0?
Challenge 2: Overlapping Techniques
How to Meet WCAG 2.0?
Automating WCAG 2.0 Compliance
HISOFTWARE COMPLIANCE SHERIFF
Deliver highest standards compliance...automatically
Repeatable
• Automated checks for International
standards
• Easily customized by your staff to meet
your specific regulatory governance
requirements
• Repeatable testing incorporated into
the content life-cycle
Practical
• Reduces time & money spent on
manual testing / custom solutions
• Standardizing testing takes the
guesswork out of content compliance
• Scalable - include only the compliance
options you need
Measurable
• Provides visibility to compliance issues
across the enterprise (Executive to
developer)
• Tracks site compliance over time
• Automated monitoring/auditing to
keep content compliant
How to Meet WCAG 2.0?
A Complex Problem…
Solved with Automation
Built In Checkpoints Customizable
Testing Compliance Level
Testing Specific Guideline
Testing WCAG2 Best Practices
• Start with most common issues that exist on
site
– Page Templates
– Style Sheets
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Meet Compliance Level A first
Focus on key scenarios/pages
Group related manual test work
Document work to demonstrate process
Identifying Common Issues
• Count number of occurrences for all
guidelines
Identifying Common Issues
• Count number of occurrences for specific
guideline
Identifying Common Issues
Compliance for Key Scenarios
Manual Testing
• Warnings and Visual checks require manual
inspection
• Use Result Revision Wizard to mark content
• Audit trail for who and when issue was
verified
Reporting / Documentation
• Manual and Automated verification roll up for
one central report
CSS Scanning
CSS Scanning – Error Highlighting
• Errors Highlighted on Page
Scanning – Error Highlighting
• Errors Highlighted on Page
User Variables
• Customize multiple checkpoints at once
2.4.3 Focus Order
2.4.7 Focus Visible
3.2.1 On Focus
User Variables / Customize Rules
User Variables
WCAG 2.0 Wrap-Up
• Automation is a necessity to organize the work
for verifying WCAG2 Compliance
• Manual verification is unavoidable
• Prioritizing key scenarios and documenting
progress are crucial
• WCAG 2 features are constantly evolving as
new customer scenarios evolve
Periodic Monitoring and Reporting
Checking Content onDemand
Checking Content Before Posting as
Part of the SharePoint Workflow
Making SharePoint Infrastructure
Compliant
How to Meet WCAG 2.0?
Raising the Bar on Proactive
Content Compliance
ALT Text Missing
• People working with
disabled colleagues always
forget to put alt text on the
images in their documents
making them non-compliant
and usable
• The Compliance Sheriff
workflow lets you educate
your enterprise and guide
users to include the
necessary information to
make documents easy to
use for all users
User Uploads Document
Email Notification
Accessibilty ALT Text
Accessibilty ALT Text
Accessibilty ALT Text
Accessibilty ALT Text
Accessibilty ALT Text
Insufficient Color Contrast
• People in an office
environment often highlight or
use their own conventions for
marking information. Vision
impairments are very
common. The Web content
accessibility guidelines include
clear rules for color contrast
settings.
• The Compliance Sheriff check
scan lets the document
creator know if the content
will be difficult to see for users
with vision impairments
How to Meet WCAG 2.0?
Color Contrast
• Questions
• Thomas Logan (t.logan@hisoftware.com)
– Chief Technology Officer