Presented at 2:15pm in WB IV on Thursday, January 1, 2017.
#9157Speaker(s)
- Jon Gunderson, Coordinator of IT Accessibility, University of Illinois
Session Details
- Length of Session: 1-hr
- Format: Lecture
- Expertise Level: Intermediate
- Type of session: General Conference
Summary
Everyone is keenly aware of the competitive nature of college sports and the rivalries between schools and athletic conferences. Let’s see how over 240 universities that are part of more than 12 basketball athletic conference’s score in making their websites accessible to people with disabilities using open source tools that are freely available.
Abstract
Web accessibility is an important yet little understood problem and this session will provide some light on the types of web accessibility problems faced by universities by analyzing over 30,000 web pages at over 300 colleges and universities home pages, selected college home pages, admissions, and financial aid web sites using the Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE) technology. The session will include information on open source tools using the OpenAjax Alliance Accessibility Ruleset to evaluate compliance with WCAG 2.0 requirements using the open source and freely available Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator 2.0. A best practices design model will be presented as an efficient and cost effective method to improve the usability of web sites for everyone, including people with disabilities, by using web standards techniques for accessibility.
Keypoints
- Learn about web accessibility requirements related to WCAG 2.0 requirements
- Accessibility features of HTML5 and ARIA technologies
- Strengths and weakness of evaluation tools for monitoring accessibility compliance
Disability Areas
Deaf/Hard of Hearing, Mobility, Vision
Topic Areas
Administrative/Campus Policy, Legal, Uncategorized
Speaker Bio(s)
Jon Gunderson
Dr. Jon Gunderson is the Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Accessibility in the Division of Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES) at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois. He leads the development of open source web accessibility evaluation tools and coding practices resources to help web designers and developers understand accessible coding techniques. He is a member of the W3C ARIA Working Group has been a major contributor to the ARIA Authoring Practices and is a contributor to the ARIA Assistive Technology community group to test ARIA implementation in assistive technologies. He has given numerous presentations, workshops and courses related to web accessibility. He is a Certified Professional in Web Accessibility (CPWA) form the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP).