Showcase 2014:
Spotlight
on
Mobile
Accessibility
Spotlight
on
Mobile Accessibility
Agenda
All Deque events and sessions will Between all Wed-Fri sessions, share All people who come to us with a story take place in Harbor Ballroom G. a digital accessibility story with us will be put in a drawing for an iPad mini.
and receive a $5 Starbucks gift card.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 -
DEQUE Accessible Game Night
The evening will feature:
• Accessibility improvements can be developed more quickly, without burdening an organization’s
web or development team.
• Any third-party code or API-based tools integrated within your site and web apps can finally be
made accessible.
• The Accessibility Overlays produced by Amaze can be leveraged for future site revisions and to
instruct your team on accessible development.
Food and drinks will be served and there will be a special drawing for an iPad mini.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Time Presentation Presenter Abstract
8:00am Introduction to the Deque Showcase 2014
Preety Kumar 9:20am WorldSpace 5.2:
An Introduction
Keith Rhodes Please join us to introduce the new features in WorldSpace v5.2. This release represents a large improvement in finding and tracking accessibility issues for any size accessibility project. It advances the capabilities of WorldSpace in its Accessibility Detection, Administration, Support for large sites, Reporting and Usability. We will provide an overview of the new features as well as a live demonstration of WorldSpace 5.2.
10:40am The User Experience of WorldSpace 5.2
Carissa Demetris Are you curious about the next release of WorldSpace? This presentation will introduce the new Deque User Experience Design practice and showcase WorldSpace v5.2 updates. Based on user research and customer feedback, Deque User Experience has made significant enhancements to the WorldSpace navigation, visual design, and system functionality. This presentation will discuss Deque's approach to user experience design, showcase improvements to WorldSpace functionality, and discuss future vision. Participants will be encouraged to provide their input, and will have the opportunity to participate in the next phase of WorldSpace user research.
Showcase 2014:
Spotlight
on Mobile Accessibility
Time Presentation Presenter Abstract
12:00pm Deque University: An Enterprise-Level Web Accessibility Knowledge Management Platform
Paul Bohman One of the challenges when integrating web accessibility into web projects is a lack of accessibility expertise among designers, developers, content writers, and quality assurance testers. There may be one or two people in the organization with a high level of knowledge, but hundreds of people with medium or low levels of knowledge. Plus there is constant turnover. People with expertise leave, and new people without expertise need training. Deque University addresses this need by putting comprehensive, advanced, up to-date web accessibility courses and reference materials online, available anytime, anywhere, on any web-capable device. The materials cover a broad range of topics from the basics to testing with screen readers to ARIA and mobile web accessibility.
1:50pm From Zero to Accessible in 180 Days
-A Fortune 50 Success Story
Glenda Sims, Dylan Barrell
In June 2013 Deque partnered with a Fortune 50 insurance company to tackle what may very well be the most ambitious Accessibility effort in history, to meet the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Altogether 62 Applications and over 1,800 pages were evaluated and brought into compliance using Amaze, WorldSpace, and Deque’s team of accessibility experts. Join us as we discuss the challenges, tools, and processes which lead to a successful implementation with lasting organizational impacts.
3:10pm Amaze in 2014 Dylan Barrell, Ian Kelly
Has your IT department or third-party vendor been telling you how difficult it is to make existing applications accessible? It will take a complete rewrite and dozens of man years! Deque's Amaze team will live code a fix to an existing public web site using the Amaze technology to show you how this can be used to cut through the IT inertia and provide real, meaningful accessibility today. Be prepared to bring your technical chops to this presentation because we will not be shying away from the dirty details.
4:20pm Practical Accessibility: Humana’s Comprehensive Approach Tony Olivero Time
Thurs
Presentationday, March 20, 2014
Presenter Abstract8:00am iOS vs. Android: A Web and Native App Accessibility Comparison
Paul Adam While Google has done a great job improving Android’s Accessibility API, it’s still not nearly as robust as Apple’s iOS Accessibility API. See a comparison of Web Accessibility and WAI-ARIA support in Android and iOS. Learn what ARIA features work in one, both, or neither of these mobile platforms. Learn what’s possible with accessibility development for Native Android & iOS Apps. It’s iOS 7 vs. Android 4.4 KitKat in their never ending race towards ultimate accessibility champion!
9:20am WorldSpace 5.2: Testing for Automated Native Applications
Keith Rhodes, Dylan Barrell
Please join us for a presentation and demonstration of our new support for Accessible IOS app development and its integration with WorldSpace. We will present common pitfalls when making an iOS native app accessible. We will also demonstrate our new plugin to the Xcode development environment which provides accessibility checking as you develop your app. We will show how Accessibility violations are displayed just like any compiler error or warning, so your developers add accessibility checking to the way they work today. We will also discuss the future of Accessibility checking in native iOS apps.
Time Presentation Presenter Abstract
10:40am
12:00pm
Android Web and Native Accessibility in 4.4 KitKat Imperfect World: A look at the reality of responsive Web design and accessibility
Paul Adam
Dylan Barrell
Learn the state of WAI-ARIA support in Chrome and Firefox for Android and the newest additions to Google’s growing Accessibility API. Learn how to be more efficient using and testing Accessibility with Android’s TalkBack screen reader. Mobile adoption has reached the point where mobile Web use far outstrips desktop Web use. This has taken Responsive Web Design from a “cool kids” project to the strategic mobile Web priority for a large number of organizations. While these sorts of projects allow for a complete re-design of the web presence which allows savvy organizations to back-in accessibility, the reality of achieving an accessible responsive web site is fraught with difficulties.
1:50pm
3:10pm
Accessibility with Angular.js
Accessible JavaScript Gestures
Ian Kelly
Dylan Barrell
Dylan Barrell will catalog Deque’s RWD accessibility top challenges and the approaches for solving these. The session will contain code samples that attendees can take home to get their hands dirty.
Client side MVC frameworks such as Angular.js, Ember.js, Knockout.js and Backbone.js hit the mainstream of development in 2013, with Angular.js arguably leading the pack in terms of the attention it has been getting. The MVC frameworks are attempting to provide a rich browser side framework for developing complex web applications, and in the day where the web is competing with mobile applications fit well into an architecture that is also delivering content via iOS and Android applications. With its emphasis on extending html syntax and two way data bindings between the model and its view, Angular equally provides challenges and advantages to the developer of an accessible application. The talk will outline where these new MVC frameworks are coming from, demonstrate some of the capabilities of Angular, and provide examples of what this may mean for accessibility on these platforms. WAI-ARIA can be used to provide really usable complex UI widgets that are accessible but the specification is silent on gestures. In this presentation, Dylan Barrell will talk about some of the limitation of ARIA in a world that is inundated with touch devices and how gestures can be used to overcome some of these limitations.
4:20pm Fix the Web: Winner of the 2013 Amaze Grant
Gail Bradbrook
The presentation will include a breakdown of a gesture and keyboard enabled custom widget with implementation details and source code for attendees to take home with them and get their hands dirty.
Fix the Web was launched in late 2010 as a pilot project to act as a “complaints handler” for accessibility issues, making use of volunteer energy in asking for problems to be fixed. This presentation will cover the approach, what has been achieved to date and the exciting opportunities to supercharge this work. Fix the Web can support awareness raising, culture change and training. With the possibility of merging in Amaze software, it becomes possible to fix problem websites as we find them. What might a partnership look like to achieve all this to the scale we need, to make our dream of an inclusive digital world come true? What role could you play in this?
Showcase 2014:
Spotlight
on Mobile Accessibility
Friday, March 21, 2014
Time Presentation Presenter Abstract
8:00am Consistency in Expert Manual Accessibility Testing
Glenda Sims If 10 accessibility expert tested the same web page for WCAG 2.0 AA compliance, would they find and report the same issues? Would any 2 of the 10 experts have results similar to each other? Let’s admit it, accessibility testing is a lot like being a detective and reaching agreement on interpretation of WCAG among experts can be a challenge. Learn how Deque’s team of a11y experts has created a methodology that increases the consistency of our testing results while simultaneously acknowledging that our craft is analytical and defies simple decision trees.
9:20am
10:40am
12:00pm
JavaScript Accessibility with jQuery & WAI-ARIA
Web Accessibility Testing With the Lights Out: Welcome to the dark side!
HTML5 and ARIA
David Sturley
Birkir Gunnarsson and a panel of bli testers
Paul Bohman
See how easy it is to make dynamic JavaScript apps and websites accessible using the cross-browser compatible jQuery library to write less code that works in more places and learn how to bring your site to life for screen reader users with the W3C’s WAI-ARIA specification.
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The beauty of accessible websites is that they can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of their disability and assistive device. But the web was not born accessible, and it takes skills, patience, knowledge and use of all our senses to make it so -- or does it? Can the web be made truly accessible for everybody by people with great insight, excellent foresight, but no eye sight?
In this panel session blind experts from some of the leading web accessibility vendors get together to reveal some of the tricks of their trade, and discuss techniques, software tools, testing methodologies and when, despite their most heroic efforts, they may have to hide their superpowers and borrow a pair of eyes. Each of our 5 experts will have a breif 10-minute presentation describing how they go about testing for accessibility and WCAG compliance using their favorite freely available tools.
1:50pm
3:10pm
First Steps in your Accessibility Project and How to Avoid Common Pitfalls WorldSpace 5.2: FireEyes Custom Rule and High-Speed Manual Testing Todd Liebsch David Sturley, Brooks Newton, a David Musser nd
Join Deque product engineers and accessibility staff as they think outside the box. The Deque team will demonstrate the power of the WorldSpace custom rules engine in aiding accessibility testers with manual assessment tasks. Not only do WorldSpace and FireEyes quickly find accessibility violations in Web pages, the custom rules engine that powers the software also allows users to specifically highlight page content that requires further subjective manual review. Learn how you can spend more of your accessibility audit time on tasks that require thoughtful review and spend less time wrangling with page code. 4:20pm An Introduction to the Brooks Newton The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, referred
Twenty-First Century to as the CVAA, is now the law in the U.S. You may have heard how the CVAA Communications and Video impacts Web video, in terms of closed captioning requirements. But did you Accessibility Act (CVAA) know that the CVAA also covers other Web-based content like email, chat and
Web conferencing? This session explores the intent of the law, the scope of what's covered under the Act, what's required for regulatory compliance and how the citizen complaint process works. The CVAA is a new type of accessibility of law that emphasizes the usability of Advanced Communication Systems by customers with disabilities over mere compliance with technical standards. Join this session to learn how the CVAA impacts your organization.