Data can help inform web accessibility efforts, but useful data is in short supply. WebAIM conducts an annual analysis of the home pages of the top one million websites, as well as regular surveys of users with disabilities. An overview of the most recent findings will be shared with guidance on how these data can be used to improve inclusion of your digital resources.
Come and join us for a discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of Accessible PDF and other alternate formats, such as large print and braille. We'll look at the differences between these formats and we'll demonstrate the reasons that document accessibility does not have a "one size fits all" solution.
Emotive and paralinguistic information are typically missing from conventional closed captions. We evaluate them in captions and report on how participants perceive them.
Presenters: Elizabeth Whitaker, Vispero
Rachel Buchanan, Vispero
Have you been tasked with establishing a Section 508 Program? Where do you begin? What is involved? Join the FDIC Section 508 Program Office, to learn how to establish a framework for a gold star 508 program and how to continue to engage your customers (including your CIO).
Lighthouse Guild has established a Technology Center for people who are visually impaired. The center's primary purpose is to help clients attain their goals through the use of assistive technology. A process was implemented to evaluate technologies and make optimal, customized technology recommendations.
This session will review some of the most common Eschenbach low vision aids used by students with vision loss to help them with their ADLs. Attendees will be able to use some of the devices discussed.
Continual Engine and George Mason University share their journey on how user feedback supported the development of PREP - an artificial intelligence-based intuitive solution for document remediation (PDFs, Word, PowerPoints, etc). This session highlights the impact of early collaboration; role of focus groups; and using data to measure success.
Presenter: Betsy Sirk, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Choosing products that provide both Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and accessibility support is more important than ever for student success. This session provides practical guidance on developing a plan that articulates what you want in both – making it easier to get the right functionality to support your learners.
Presenter: Rebecca Penrose, California State University, Bakersfield
IMAGE is a new tool that uses rich audio (sonification) and touch (haptics) to provide a faster and more nuanced experience of graphics on the web. Have you ever wanted to hear a photograph? Feel a graph? Learn how you can use IMAGE to explore web graphics in new ways.
For many people, recovering from COVID has been a long process. They continue to experience fatigue, pain, and "brain fog". Brain fog affects a person's ability to concentrate on tasks and short term memory loss. This session shares inclusive design research and best practices for COVID and brain fog.
Acknowledging they need a methodology to attack the problem, the Personal Investment Firm made great strides making hundreds of thousands of documents accessible to people with disabilities. By distilling the process down to a model that Finds, Tests and Fixes files, they have vastly improved their content accessibility footprint.
Content must be understandable to be accessible. The W3C is working on standards that will help you empower people who may struggle to understand your content and interfaces. In the future, the web will adapt to users' needs. Learn how to use (with technical examples) and shape these exciting emerging developments.
The emerging field of visual interpreting brings unique inclusion opportunities to higher education. We address best practices and use-cases in accessibility to distance learning, event planning, and campus life, as well as safety concerns and procedures on campus associated with the global pandemic.
Accessibility guidance is developer-biased and text heavy. To shift left, IBM established that designers want visual guidance available in the tools they already use, and need clarity on exactly when and how to provide accessibility annotations. We created a free Sketch kit and open-source Carbon component guidance to address this.
Presenters: Michael Gower, IBM Design
Jessica Lin, IBM Accessibility
Most of us know that the higher-ed publishing community has embraced EPUB as the accessible digital format of the future. But what many don't know is that EPUBs also contain a hidden treasure that can supercharge your course materials strategy: a masked hero named Accessibility Metadata.
Presenter: Catherine Fichten, Dawson College, Adaptech Research Network
How is accessibility incorporated into the definition of diversity, inclusion, and equity for your company, your program, or your classroom? We will talk about different ways to ensure the rights of people of all abilities are included in these conversations and definitions.
Presenters: Eric Stano, Magic EdTech
Erin Evans, Magic EdTech
We'll discuss tools that can make office documents accessible. These include MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents using tools to set policy and using a wizard to walk either a power user of MS Office or a person who has had minimal training in making documents accessible.
Have you ever wished for a cheat sheet to help remember which products do what? Or wished for an authority to walk you through the process of choosing the right product? When it comes to video magnifiers, our presentation will provide both.
AFB conducted a survey and interviews to examine the technology-related experiences of blind, low-vision, and deafblind workers. We report major findings and recommendations to make workplace technology more accessible and inclusive.
Power Point Presentation and Live Demonstration of the latest and greatest Windows Screen Reading Technology with JAWS 2022. Plenty of opportunity for Questions and Answers
Two years ago Harvard reached a settlement, agreeing to caption online content from many stakeholders across a large, decentralized institution. Join digital accessibility team members to learn about their approach to the work along with tools developed, services integrated, and training delivered to carry out the work and promote accessibility.
Presenters: Kyle Shachmut, Harvard University
Andy Hollenhorst, Harvard University
Learn about ePub Accessibility testing, its challenges and the solutions that the future may hold. This presentation will serve as a demo for Logictran's brand new browser-based tool intended to simplify ePub Accessibility testing and remediation.
Presenters: Okan Guney, Logictran
Christine Foushi, Logictran
An introduction to the Dynamic Tactile Device project that APH and HumanWare have been working on for the past two years. Progress and findings will be shared along with the goals and direction of the project.
Building a self-ordering kiosk that's accessible for people who are blind or have low vision requires consideration of web content accessibility guidelines & kiosk accessibility best practices. Learn about how TPGi worked with the McDonald's team to provide an experience for customers who are blind or have low vision.
Presenters: Ryan Jones, TPGi
Kelsey Hall, McDonald's Corporation
This presentation follows Northwestern's transition from a digital accessibility grassroots effort to a systematic approach. It will highlight a committee's success in establishing and implementing a digital accessibility liaison network, an accessible purchasing process, and a university digital accessibility policy on limited available resources.
Join us in this "shift-left" movement to take Accessibility as early as possible in the design process. We will discuss tools and best practices for rapid prototyping and running usability studies with users who rely on assistive technologies from day-1.
Presenters: Marcelo Paiva, UKG - Ultimate Kronos Group
Claudio Luis Vera, Stark
Teleconferences spotlight the active speaker, based on audio. For deaf signer accessibility, we report evaluations of sign-detection algorithms to spotlight the active signer.
In this world of "live help, a click away", it is critical for organizations to ensure that their CUI's are accessible. This is how they would truly "solve for ALL their customers". Intuit is working to ensure that our live help products are accessible. We will share our learnings with you.
Presenters: Poonam Tathavadkar, Intuit Inc
Sagar Barbhaya, Intuit Inc
In this session, we will provide a high-level catch-up of accessibility benefits and obstacles that modern day CSS features can offer. We will demonstrate each feature using practical examples and discuss its relevance to current and upcoming WCAG requirements.
Presenter: Brandon Biggs, Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
Equal access to information on your website and other digital content channels is vital for successful marketing and communication. This session presents a practical approach for Marketers and Communicators to get started with better digital content accessibility, and helps break down barriers for a more accessible and inclusive content creation.
In an obscure corner of American disability law, you'll find ten fundamental principles to every digital experience. These describe the core use cases for digital accessibility, and they apply to all digital products, including gaming, kiosks, mobile apps, and VR.
Attendees will learn how easy the UbiDuo 3 is to use to enable face to face communication between people who are deaf, hard of hearing, and late-deafened and hearing. Use 24/7/365 any place/any time.
In this session, we share the digital equity and e-inclusion training program we designed to move away from a compliance model to a model where faculty consider accessibility at the course design level. Our program is built for instructors but its tenants can be applied broadly to other populations.
Presenter: Elisa Sance, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning, University of Maine
This session will demonstrate the benefits of using a Bluetooth keyboard with an iDevice and configure an iDevice to work optimally with such a keyboard. Specific keyboard commands to control Zoom, VoiceOver, and processes in the iOS environment will be reviewed.
Presenters: Jiawei Liu, City College of New York
Hao Tang, CUNY/BMCC
This session will examine workplace situations and accommodation solutions involving individuals with various disabilities working in entry-level positions with a focus on strategies and technologies that can be implemented subtly. Cost and benefit data from an ongoing study will be provided as available.
Higher education accessibility experts from 15 universities synthesized procurement best practices into a curated list of vendor questions. They were incorporated into the HECVAT, a widely-used IT Security assessment toolkit for third-party platforms, addressing a consistent organizational accessibility challenge. Learn about the questions, scoring and how to use the toolkit.
The authors suggest a new smart home model for the elderly based on the users' views. The authors have interviewed staff of facilities for the elderly and the families of the elderly, who are assumed to be the users of a smart home.
Learn basic and nested tag structures of a PDF document and what it means to have a well-formed tags tree. Explore how differences in tag structure affect how screen readers voice content. Leave this session empowered with the knowledge and understanding to tackle your next PDF confidently.
Recent updates, features, and benefits on the OrCam MyEye and Read technologies. This session, conducted by a low vision optometrist with working experience of the technology, discusses best practices, patient experiences, and the future of artificial intelligence and computer-assisted vision technology.
Requests for Proposal (RFP's) are used to evaluate options for kiosk solutions across both the private and public sector. In this session, the recommended language and options for writing a kiosk RFP that results in an accessible kiosk will be discussed and presented.
Many people do not test PDF documents adequately to ensure compliance. This presentation will demonstrate the steps required to ensure PDF compliance via a holistic testing process that includes automated and manual testing processes. Both simple and complex documents will be reviewed, as well as how to test special characters.
Manual keyboard accessibility testing is arduous, repetitive, and prone to error. IBM has pioneered a novel keyboard tab stop visualization as part of the IBM Equal Access Accessibility Checker. This work will automate manual keyboard testing - making it easier, more efficient and less error prone.
Community programs focusing on equitable access to family AAC training proved invaluable for the progression of student communication skills throughout distance learning. Attendees will leave with guidelines on creating community groups, topic ideas, agendas, bitmoji classroom templates, and questionnaires to obtain information about the cultural impact on AAC use.
With audio description firmly embedded in the broadcast streams, it is now time to investigate alternative ways in which programs that have remained inaccessible can be made accessible. The presenters will share findings on the programs from various genres including children's content, documentaries, science, nature, and travel shows.
Join TPGi as we review accessibility considerations for delivering streaming video across multiple platforms using a variety of input modalities. Designers and developers will learn how to improve the user journey of finding and playing video content on demand.
Presenters: Rachele DiTullio, TPGi
Carolina Crespo, TPGi
Charu Pandhi, TPGi
A digital camera with a retinal imaging viewfinder is introduced as a low vision aid. The presentation includes the device's function, specification, principle, safety, and impact on the life of low vision people. Videos of users and the device demonstration will be included.
Access to information in the workplace for blind and low vision people does not end with a screen reader or magnifier. Through our partners in some of the world's largest businesses, we'll look at how visual interpreting leads to productivity and inclusion.