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DPAC went to Manchester for the TUC march on the Tory Conference. There were reports of more than 35 000 marchers by the BBC. There was some uncertainty as to where disabled people should be but we stayed together and was near the top of the march. It was very noisy, ?they say cut back, [...]
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By bim
One of the worst culprits for creating what I call "too much accessibility" is the ACCESSKEY attribute. Of course, it has its place in the accessible web author's toolkit, but when implemented by someone who doesn't know how other keyboard shortcuts work, it can be a positive menace. I'm a constant user of the keyboard for navigation. This may make me more conscious of the problems that result from over-helpful use of this attribute, but knowing my HTML, at least I've a good idea of what's happening. Other keyboard users will have the same problems, though they may not know "what's gone wrong".
Using ACCESSKEYS is the technique that web authors can employ to bind certain keys to particular active regions of a page, creating keyboard shortcuts. Users can jump to any link or form control which is the target of an ACCESSKEY shortcut, from anywhere else on the page, by simply holding down the ALT key and pressing the key chosen as its ACCESSKEY. This works like a dream if a numeric key is chosen as the ACCESSKEY, for instance accesskey"5", as recommended in the Uk Government checklist (section 2.4.4). Unfortunately, some web authors, perhaps thinking that alphabetic characters would be easier to remember, choose letters. This is where it can get messy. The ALT key and an alpha character also trigger browser toolbar controls.
Anyone who can't use a mouse relies on these shortcuts, to change text size, get browser help, add a page to their favourites and a whole range of other browser functions; all very important. But in the battle for top billing, the browser controls lose out. If the selected ACCESSKEY uses the same letter as any of the browser shortcuts, users are either taken to the link using that ACCESSKEY, in Internet Explorer, or worse, taken straight to the page that the link leads to, in Mozilla Firefox or Netscape. Excuse me for being picky, but in my view, making someone who is blind, has cognitive difficulties or impaired mobility, play hide and seek among unwanted links or pages, is a long way from being accessible. So this is a plea to the web authors who believe that they're being thoughtful by making their ACCESSKEY choices alphabetic, so that they'll be easy to remember. Please think again. Using numeric characters is quite accessible enough.
Source: http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/wacblog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=42
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Disability Support Services
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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is a useful standard for anyone wanting to create an accessible website, but there's no equivalent guidelines for creating mobile apps, so many developers may not realise there's a need, or a way, to make them accessible.
In this article we'll take a quick tour of the more popular phone operating systems, their levels of accessibility and how to create accessible apps for them.
The iPhone has fast become a serious contender in the technology fashion parade among blind and partially sighted people. Some of the reasons for this are:
If you're using standard views and controls, they'll come pre-loaded with accessibility, so there's very little you need to do. Just make sure all your controls, including image buttons, have meaningful labels and the job is pretty much done.
If you're creating your own views or controls, you need to make them accessible by setting their accessibility status.
The Accessibility Programming Guide for IOS on the Apple site explains what you need to do to make your app accessible.
Accessibility for iPhone and iPad apps, an excellent blog post on the subject by Matt Gemmell, is also worth a read.
Once you've got an accessible app to show off, make sure to tell your prospective blind and partially sighted customers about it. A good way to do this is to list it as an accessible app on the AppleVis website. Also drop an email to our technology team - they might even make it an app of the month!
So far Android phones haven't had the same take-up as the iPhone among blind and partially sighted people. Some of the reasons why are:
The Designing for Accessibility page on the Google Eyes Free site gives an overview of how to make your Android apps accessible. It's nothing like as comprehensive as the Apple guide, but it should get you started.
Code Factory, the creators of the newly released Mobile Accessibility for Android screen reader, with its suite of ten accessible apps, are working on an accessibility framework for developers, which may be worth a look once it's released. Check whether it only allows for accessibility within the Mobile Speak environment, as this might be a limitation you want to avoid.
A screen reader called Oratio for Blackberry was released in the US and Canada in 2010, but up till now hasn't reached the UK. It currently only works with some older model phones that have physical keyboards. So right now it's not possible for a screen reader user in the UK to use a Blackberry.
RIM, the makers of Blackberry, have created a low-vision theme called Clarity that uses large sans-serif fonts and easy-to-read colour schemes.
There's more information about Clarity, and links to other accessibility info including a developer guide on RIM's Blackberry accessibility page.
Unlike its predecessor Windows Phone 6.5, Windows Phone 7 is completely inaccessible to blind and partially sighted people, and it's been written in a way that stops developers from making it accessible. RNIB and other blindness organisations around the world are in talks with Microsoft, but it's likely to take at least a year before we see any improvement. So it's not currently possible to write an accessible app for Windows Phone 7.
Although the Blackberry and Windows Phone 7 story remains bleak, there's a lot you can do to make your iPhone and Android apps accessible.
Happy programming!
Source: http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/wacblog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=47
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By bim
We all know that when an abbreviation or initialisation is used, that it should be expanded at it's first use. We know too, that there are two ways this can be achieved: a) In plain text (best practice) or b) Using the ACRONYM or ABBR elements.
Unfortunately web authors often use both together. This is awful for screen reader users, if they have expansions enabled, they will get both the full plain text and the fully expanded acronym.
For example, if the code is: <p>Big friendly giant (<acronym title="Big friendly giant">BFG</acronym>)</p>
To sighted users the text will look like this: Big friendly giant (BFG) To screen reader users it could be announced as: Big friendly giant (Big friendly giant).
This repetition isn't just a pain in the ears, but also prevents these users from making the association between the full text and it's short form, and becoming familiar with the sound of the unexpanded acronym. So when it is used unexpanded later on it would be the first time they encounter it. So where you're providing the expansion in plain text, avoid the temptation to use ACRONYM or ABBR to expand the initials that immediately precede or follow it.
Source: http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/wacblog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=37
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Lots of folk have spent time and effort bringing their web site content up to current accessibility standards, but due to an oversight, some may be inaccurately claiming that their site is fully conformant to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0).
We all know that WCAG 2.0 is technology neutral, but not everyone has understood that the guidelines require that PDF and any other downloadable content available from a page needs to be as accessible as the web page itself.
This post is the first in a series of hints and tips on making your PDF files accessible, or better still, on creating PDF that have accessibility built in from the outset.
In short, PDF need to be tagged to be accessible. This means that the file has been created or repaired using an application that is capable of tagging. It also means of course, that the author has applied the right tags. Without these the file can't have the structure needed to support accessibility for screen reader users.
As Adobe Acrobat is probably the best known application capable of applying and correcting tags in PDF, this series will refer to techniques using Adobe Acrobat. The newest version is likely to give you better results.
Tagging is vital, but even before it, there are two important things to check and correct at the document level, (rather like in the head of an HTML file, these are:
If either of these has been set incorrectly, the tagging may not be much help. The screen reader might be unable to use the right language pronunciation rules to make the text understandable, or if security settings deny access, then no text would be exposed to screen readers at all.
With your file open in Adobe Acrobat:
That's all. Save your file.
This series will continue, giving tips and tricks for avoiding problems, as well as suggesting the best way to tag your PDF files.
In a rush to know? Book onto our training course Making PDF Accessible, a full-day workshop demonstrating both the issues and the solutions.
Source: http://www.rnib.org.uk/professionals/webaccessibility/wacblog/Lists/Posts/ViewPost.aspx?ID=46
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