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Greenfield University at Buffalo Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedSlide2: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Section 508 Compliant?Presentation Outline: Presentation Outline Introduction Web 2.0 and Accessibility Making Accessibility a Reality Concluding Thoughts Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedSlide4: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Web Accessibility Definition Designing so that more people can use your web site effectively in more situations Carnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent Carnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent 15,000,000 Number of visually impaired people in the United States Visual Disability Statistics: Visual Disability Statistics 1.1 million Americans are legally blind 12 million Americans have some form of vision disability that cannot be corrected by glasses 100 million Americans are visually disabled without corrective lenses Approximately 10 million or 7% of the male population and about 0.4% of the female population experiences some form of color deficiency Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedCarnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent 28,000,000 Number people in the United States with some amount of hearing loss Carnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent 57% Percentage of adult computer users that can benefit from accessible technology Carnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent September 6, 2006 A federal district court judge rules that a retailer may be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind. (NFB v. Target) Four Major Categories of Disabilities: Four Major Categories of Disabilities Visual Disabilities Auditory Disabilities Motor Disabilities Cognitive Disabilities Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedIt’s the End of the Web as We Know It (And I Feel Fine!): It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (And I Feel Fine!) Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved The Mobile Web The Read/Write Web Social Networks Rich Media The End of the Web Page ParadigmThe Mobile Web: The Mobile Web “People don’t just adopt mobile devices, they marry them” -B.J. Fogg Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedThe Mobile Web: The Mobile Web The number of Internet users in Japan accessing the Internet from cell phones exceeded those using it from personal computers in 2005 3G Cellular technology Mobile technology can reach virtually anywhere making “Always on – Always connected” a reality Many more people own cell phones than computers Location Based Services Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedMobile Web Accessibility: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Mobile Web Accessibility Designing for small screens Mobile computing involves imperfect conditions Browser compatibility No mouse, small keyboard, limited plug-ins The Read/Write Web: The Read/Write Web The idea was that anybody who used the web would have a space where they could write and so the first browser was an editor, it was a writer as well as a reader. Every person who used the web had the ability to write something. - Tim Berners-Lee Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedThe Read/Write Web: The Read/Write Web Exponential increase in the amount of information The move from static to dynamic content Cybertime The importance of information literacy The Participation Age – from mass media to my media Users need the ability to both create and consume content Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedAccessibility and the Read/Write Web: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Accessibility and the Read/Write Web Challenges What to do about accessibility when the content is being created by millions of users who do not have the first clue about web accessibility The move from static to dynamic content Opportunities Improve the underlying tools Leverage the power of Open Source Social Networks: Social Networks Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedSocial Networks and Accessibility: Social Networks and Accessibility Is the ADA more applicable? CAPTCHA’s Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedCAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved CAPTCHARich Media: Rich Media A broad range of interactive digital media that exhibit dynamic motion, taking advantage of enhanced sensory features such as video, audio and animation* * From Wikipedia Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedRich Media and Accessibility: Rich Media and Accessibility Rich Media has the potential to offer a better experience for people with cognitive disabilities Are transcripts and captioning cost-prohibitive? Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedThe End of the Web Page Paradigm: “Web content is external rather than internal. Instead of a website being a “place” where data “is” and other sites “link to”, a site is a source of data to be remixed collectively both internal and external to a given “site””. The End of the Web Page Paradigm Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedThe End of the Web Page Paradigm: The End of the Web Page Paradigm The page is no longer the atom of the web Linking being replaced by syndication (RSS) Content is more important than the container Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content Content in Motion: What iTunes Can Teach Us About Managing Web Content Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedIssues for Web Developers: Issues for Web Developers How important is the home page? How important is web design if no one sees your site? How important is information architecture if people are getting content directly without interacting with your site? What are copyright and accessibility of RSS? 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It embodies a philosophy that places the user at the center of the process with users being consulted at each stage of the design process. UCD Methodologies: Focus Groups Usability Tests Log file analysis Surveys Mental Models Benchmarking Personas UCD Methodologies Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedPersonas: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved PersonasWeb Services Mission/Vision: Understand the Business Understand the User Understand the Medium Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Web Services Mission/VisionWeb Standards: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call “web standards,” are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web. Web Standards Project Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Web StandardsWeb Development – Historical Perspective: Lack of Browser Support for CSS Graphic Design vs. User Interface Design Using Tables to format Layout Spacer GIFs Invalid Code and Hacks Web Development – Historical Perspective Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedWhat are the Standards?: What are the Standards? 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Greenfield University at Buffalo Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedSlide2: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Section 508 Compliant?Presentation Outline: Presentation Outline Introduction Web 2.0 and Accessibility Making Accessibility a Reality Concluding Thoughts Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedSlide4: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Web Accessibility Definition Designing so that more people can use your web site effectively in more situations Carnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent Carnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent 15,000,000 Number of visually impaired people in the United States Visual Disability Statistics: Visual Disability Statistics 1.1 million Americans are legally blind 12 million Americans have some form of vision disability that cannot be corrected by glasses 100 million Americans are visually disabled without corrective lenses Approximately 10 million or 7% of the male population and about 0.4% of the female population experiences some form of color deficiency Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedCarnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent 28,000,000 Number people in the United States with some amount of hearing loss Carnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent 57% Percentage of adult computer users that can benefit from accessible technology Carnac the Magnificent : Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Carnac the Magnificent September 6, 2006 A federal district court judge rules that a retailer may be sued if its website is inaccessible to the blind. (NFB v. Target) Four Major Categories of Disabilities: Four Major Categories of Disabilities Visual Disabilities Auditory Disabilities Motor Disabilities Cognitive Disabilities Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedIt’s the End of the Web as We Know It (And I Feel Fine!): It’s the End of the Web as We Know It (And I Feel Fine!) Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved The Mobile Web The Read/Write Web Social Networks Rich Media The End of the Web Page ParadigmThe Mobile Web: The Mobile Web “People don’t just adopt mobile devices, they marry them” -B.J. Fogg Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedThe Mobile Web: The Mobile Web The number of Internet users in Japan accessing the Internet from cell phones exceeded those using it from personal computers in 2005 3G Cellular technology Mobile technology can reach virtually anywhere making “Always on – Always connected” a reality Many more people own cell phones than computers Location Based Services Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedMobile Web Accessibility: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Mobile Web Accessibility Designing for small screens Mobile computing involves imperfect conditions Browser compatibility No mouse, small keyboard, limited plug-ins The Read/Write Web: The Read/Write Web The idea was that anybody who used the web would have a space where they could write and so the first browser was an editor, it was a writer as well as a reader. Every person who used the web had the ability to write something. - Tim Berners-Lee Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedThe Read/Write Web: The Read/Write Web Exponential increase in the amount of information The move from static to dynamic content Cybertime The importance of information literacy The Participation Age – from mass media to my media Users need the ability to both create and consume content Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedAccessibility and the Read/Write Web: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Accessibility and the Read/Write Web Challenges What to do about accessibility when the content is being created by millions of users who do not have the first clue about web accessibility The move from static to dynamic content Opportunities Improve the underlying tools Leverage the power of Open Source Social Networks: Social Networks Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedSocial Networks and Accessibility: Social Networks and Accessibility Is the ADA more applicable? CAPTCHA’s Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedCAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved CAPTCHARich Media: Rich Media A broad range of interactive digital media that exhibit dynamic motion, taking advantage of enhanced sensory features such as video, audio and animation* * From Wikipedia Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedRich Media and Accessibility: Rich Media and Accessibility Rich Media has the potential to offer a better experience for people with cognitive disabilities Are transcripts and captioning cost-prohibitive? Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedThe End of the Web Page Paradigm: “Web content is external rather than internal. Instead of a website being a “place” where data “is” and other sites “link to”, a site is a source of data to be remixed collectively both internal and external to a given “site””. The End of the Web Page Paradigm Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedThe End of the Web Page Paradigm: The End of the Web Page Paradigm The page is no longer the atom of the web Linking being replaced by syndication (RSS) Content is more important than the container Home Alone? How Content Aggregators Change Navigation and Control of Content Content in Motion: What iTunes Can Teach Us About Managing Web Content Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedIssues for Web Developers: Issues for Web Developers How important is the home page? How important is web design if no one sees your site? How important is information architecture if people are getting content directly without interacting with your site? What are copyright and accessibility of RSS? Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedAJAX in Action: AJAX in Action Google Maps local.live.com Netvibes Kayak.com Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedAJAX and Accessibility: AJAX and Accessibility http://www.webaim.org/techniques/ajax/ Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedMaking Accessibility a Reality: User Centered Design Web Standards Lessons Learned Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Making Accessibility a RealityAccessibility and Usability: Accessibility is a subset of usability Many design aspects that are good for general usability are required for accessibility Functional and situational limitations Usable Accessibility - Technical aspects should not be emphasized at the expense of the human interaction aspect Accessibility and Usability Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedUser Centered Design: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved User Centered Design A collection of techniques, processes, methods and procedures for designing usable web sites. It embodies a philosophy that places the user at the center of the process with users being consulted at each stage of the design process. UCD Methodologies: Focus Groups Usability Tests Log file analysis Surveys Mental Models Benchmarking Personas UCD Methodologies Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedPersonas: Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved PersonasWeb Services Mission/Vision: Understand the Business Understand the User Understand the Medium Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Web Services Mission/VisionWeb Standards: The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), along with other groups and standards bodies, has established technologies for creating and interpreting web-based content. These technologies, which we call “web standards,” are carefully designed to deliver the greatest benefits to the greatest number of web users while ensuring the long-term viability of any document published on the Web. Web Standards Project Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Web StandardsWeb Development – Historical Perspective: Lack of Browser Support for CSS Graphic Design vs. User Interface Design Using Tables to format Layout Spacer GIFs Invalid Code and Hacks Web Development – Historical Perspective Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedWhat are the Standards?: What are the Standards? Structural Languages HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, XML 1.0 Presentation Languages CSS Level 1, 2, 3; MathML; SVG Object Models DOM Level 1, 2, 3 Core Scripting Languages ECMAScript 262 (standardized JavaScript) Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedAdvantages of Using Standards: Simpler development and maintenance Compatibility with future web browsers Faster download and rendering of web pages Better search engine rankings Separate content from presentation Semantic markup Better accessibility Advantages of Using Standards Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedLessons Learned: Provide alternatives, both online and offline Understand the web accessibility is a continuum Focus on the low hanging fruit Avoid the accessibility vs. design war Educate instead of mandate Code to standards and you are ¾’s of the way there Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved Lessons LearnedConcluding Thoughts: Concluding ThoughtsWikinomics: Wikinomics We are entering a world where only the connected survive. The web is no longer about idly surfing and passively reading, listening or watching. It’s about sharing, socializing, collaborating, and most of all, creating within loosely connected communities. Copyright © 2007 All Rights ReservedWeapons of Mass Collaboration: Weapons of Mass Collaboration