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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT

Accessible MN.ITJay Wyant, CIAO

August 1, 2013


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with emphasis on

Minnesota government


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Objectives

Discuss why accessible

technology matters

Understand the barriers toaccessibility

Know the basis of MN.IT

accessibility standards

Discuss implications for you and

your organizations


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Accessibility quote by Tim Berners-Lee

The power of the Webis in its universality.Access by everyoneregardless of disabilityis an essential aspect.-- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director

and inventor of the World Wide

Web


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What is Accessibility?What is Accommodation?

What is Assistive Technology (AT)?


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ContentBuy/Build

Project Management


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Separate content from presentationUse of templates and styles

Dependent on design, production and

management


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Tight structure

Everybody has abutton

Snapshot withhidden

structure

Start withaccessible sourcedocument


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What are your

processes?

Who determines

what goes online?Who determines

final format?


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Document vs. Web

Best practices

CAPTCHAs


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Policies/Standards?

Accessibility

Open Data/Source

Mobile StrategyResponsive Design


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The way to think about the visual systemis as a way to ask questions about a

spatial database. If you give someone

another way to ask the questions and getthe answers, they dont need vision.


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RFP/Developmentrequirements

How do you define what

you want?

VPATsAdd to your toolkit

Demand vendor

knowledge/

accountabilityRequirement vs.

scoring

Evaluation training


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How do you test?

How do you

enforce?

Access-IT

resource


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Planning

Budget

Allocation of resources

Sample situations

Requirements design/development

Software development

QA/Testing

Captioning

...how does the BA/PM know what needs to be done,

when?


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Policies & Standards

Best practices

Aware and trained staff


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What do I do for you?Policy frameworks

Doc best practices

Testing resources/practices/training

Communities of practices

Awareness and outreach


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Mobile users

Multiple platforms

Multiple media

streams

Nimble, flexible

Accessibility concepts

enhance your planningand design framework


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Federal

Section 508

ADA (Title II)

State

MN 2009 law(chapter131)

2013 Public Recordsstatute 363A.42

Guidelines

WCAG 2.0

Roll your own?


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Screen readers not

same as text-to-

speech

Most popular readers:

Freedom Scientifics

JAWS

NVDA

Demo:

http://www.youtube.co

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A Pause forQuestions


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Tend to be:Creative problem solvers

Productive

Lower absentee rates

Loyal


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The proportion of executive branch employees with aself-reported disability has steadily declined over the past

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Thank You!Jay Wyant

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