ux australia - shannon king - 10 minute talk - 2016

The WHAT, WHY and HOW of achieving an accessibility friendly organisationShannon KingExperience Design Analyst@ShazEKing

Shannon King @ShazEKing

Why?



4.3 million people Not just vision impairments

WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Guidelines by W3C

Operable

Robust


Perceivable

Understandable

Guideline 2.1 – “Keyboard Accessible”“All functionality of the content is operable through

a keyboard interface without requiring specific timings for individual keystrokes, except where the underlying

function requires input that depends on the path of the user's movement and not just the endpoints.”


What?


SeamlessWebAccessibilityGroup


Guideline 2.1 – re-visitedEnsure that all functionality that is available to users via a mouse is also available via a keyboard. The user shouldn't have to time their keystrokes to a certain pattern.


Guideline 2.1 – example formatCriteria What does it mean? Checklist to pass this criteria Key responsible

team member

2.1.1 Keyboard (Level A)

Ensure that all functionality that is available to users via a mouse is also available via a keyboard. The user shouldn't have to time their keystrokes to a certain pattern.

Exception: Where the system requires the user to make an input based on the path of their movement; for example: when you draw your signature.

• Semantic HTML elements are used• Proper click and focus functions on links

and buttons if using JavaScript to enhance the visual presentation

• Hover and Focus styles are kept similar• JavaScript is not used to remove focus

from an element

Developer


How?


Take 1 (2013)• Reviewed all the guidelines• Assigned roles to each criteria• Produced presentations to describe each guideline


Take 1 – What happened• Time issues• Waited for too long to get information out to staff• Content didn’t use simple enough language• Took 5 months and the documentation still wasn’t

finished


Take 2 (2016)• Got time properly allocated for the staff of SWAG• Great team spirit• Organised presentations by the team• Re-worked all documentation• Took only 3.5 months; which was a whole month

early based on the original plan


Top tips!• Get buy-in• Plan out your schedule• Make it relevant to what you

do• Demonstrate and share your

learning


So what’s next?



Flyers and manualsInduction material Knowledge sharing


Knowledge sharing

http://seamlesscms.com/a11y

Thanks for listening everyone!

Shannon King @ShazEKing @SeamlessCMS

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