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Need For Web Accessibility Final

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Srinivasu Chakravarthula
Srinivasu Chakravarthula

This paper talks about need for web accessibility and what Yahoo! is doing; presented at Techshare India 2010 on 16th February, 2010

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Need for Web Accessibility in Developing Countries Yahoo! InitiativesBy Srinivasu ChakravarthulaAccessibility Manager
Internet and its usageApplicationsEducation Research Business TravelShop Entertainment Social Networking Music Matrimony Users:Student, parent, teacher, professionals, government, senior citizens… and everyone!
Users of internet also includes people with special needs
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Some facts…As per WHO, there are about 600 million people with disabilities across the worldIn India alone, there are about 70 millionThere is a rapid development in the area of assistive technology industry!
Disability and types of disabilitiesUnable to perform a particular taskIt can be a temporary or permanentCan occur either by birth or by accidentSituational DisabilityOops! My mouse stopped working Text is too small on this webpageFunctional DisabilityVisually impairedMobility impairedHard of hearingLearning disabilityAutism, CP
How People with Disabilities Use ComputerScreen readersScreen magnifiersOn-screen keyboardTrack ballSwitchErgonomic KeyboardRefreshable Braille Display
Web is more useful to people withdisabilities
Deepa Narasimhan, Graphic Designer, EMCAs far as I use the On screen keyboard, its easy on all website. Maybe we need a better voice recognition software which can use on computers for typing & browsing websites. Which would help people with sever conditions, as few people with nohands (amputees) will find this great way to browse the internet.
Case studies continued… Artur OrtegaThe internet allows me as a blind personto get access to services and information without any help by anyone whichwouldn't be even be possible or very difficult in a physical world. The internetcreates new opportunities and creates a full new independency for persons with disabilities.I really miss the approach of a great part of the private sector to embrace accessibility. Only some very innovativecompanies like Yahoo! are taking the first steps to even make web 2.0 applications accessible and breaking into new dimensions of accessibility. I would love if more and more companies would follow this great example.
Yahoo! Initiatives
Why Yahoo! cares for accessibility?Yahoo! is a global web companyAround 600 million users visit Yahoo!Approximately 200 million world wide and 76 million from India visit our properties related to Emerging Markets.Yahoo!’s presence include
Our mindset… We think for all!We sensitize our teamsWe train our teams in the area of assistive technology and accessibility
Accessibility LabAccessibility Labs at Sunnyvale and Bangalore are equipped with different assistive technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, Track ball, Refreshable Braille Display, Big Twist Switch, Voice Recognition software etc.
Our TeamAlan Brightman, Sandeep Datar, Victor Tsaran, Srinivasu Chakravarthula and Artur Ortega
Accessibility Task Force and SIGCore Accessibility teamAccessibility Task Force includes members fromUser Experience DesignQuality EngineeringFront End EngineeringSE & OLearning and Development
Accessibility is considered right at the design stage
Need For Web Accessibility Final
What we do?Conduct user studiesInvolve people with disabilities in our accessibility testingDevelop Accessibility Guidelines and Checklists for Yahoo!Evangelize about accessibility in and outside Yahoo!Run a public mailing list (coming soon)
With full effort to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0Use of ARIA for dynamic modules like Yahoo! SearchClosed captioning for videosYUI components that are accessible, like ARIA enabled Drop down menus etc. Audio CAPTCHA in Yahoo! GroupsWe Design…
Accessibility Testing - AutomatedInternal Automation Open Source Tool Yselinium to test for high level accessibility issuesWAVE – http://wave.webaim.org/toolbarFirefox Accessibility extensionAdd-ons of Mozilla Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=accessibility&cat=all
Manual TestingScreen ReadersNVDA – http://www.nvda-project.orgJAWS for Windows – http://www.freedomscientific.comScreen MagnifiersZoomText Xtra – http://www.aisquared.comDolphin Supernova – http://www.yourdolphin.comAlternate Input devices – Track ball and switch – http://www.ablenetinc.comDragon Naturally Speaking http://www.nuance.comTalks – a screen reader for mobile S60 phones http://www.nuance.com/talks/
Outreach… Present in Accessibility Workshops around the countryPart of awareness programs for other organizationsEvangelize through Hack days
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Need For Web Accessibility Final

  • 1. Need for Web Accessibility in Developing Countries Yahoo! InitiativesBy Srinivasu ChakravarthulaAccessibility Manager
  • 2. Internet and its usageApplicationsEducation Research Business TravelShop Entertainment Social Networking Music Matrimony Users:Student, parent, teacher, professionals, government, senior citizens… and everyone!
  • 3. Users of internet also includes people with special needs
  • 5. Some facts…As per WHO, there are about 600 million people with disabilities across the worldIn India alone, there are about 70 millionThere is a rapid development in the area of assistive technology industry!
  • 6. Disability and types of disabilitiesUnable to perform a particular taskIt can be a temporary or permanentCan occur either by birth or by accidentSituational DisabilityOops! My mouse stopped working Text is too small on this webpageFunctional DisabilityVisually impairedMobility impairedHard of hearingLearning disabilityAutism, CP
  • 7. How People with Disabilities Use ComputerScreen readersScreen magnifiersOn-screen keyboardTrack ballSwitchErgonomic KeyboardRefreshable Braille Display
  • 8. Web is more useful to people withdisabilities
  • 9. Deepa Narasimhan, Graphic Designer, EMCAs far as I use the On screen keyboard, its easy on all website. Maybe we need a better voice recognition software which can use on computers for typing & browsing websites. Which would help people with sever conditions, as few people with nohands (amputees) will find this great way to browse the internet.
  • 10. Case studies continued… Artur OrtegaThe internet allows me as a blind personto get access to services and information without any help by anyone whichwouldn't be even be possible or very difficult in a physical world. The internetcreates new opportunities and creates a full new independency for persons with disabilities.I really miss the approach of a great part of the private sector to embrace accessibility. Only some very innovativecompanies like Yahoo! are taking the first steps to even make web 2.0 applications accessible and breaking into new dimensions of accessibility. I would love if more and more companies would follow this great example.
  • 12. Why Yahoo! cares for accessibility?Yahoo! is a global web companyAround 600 million users visit Yahoo!Approximately 200 million world wide and 76 million from India visit our properties related to Emerging Markets.Yahoo!’s presence include
  • 13. Our mindset… We think for all!We sensitize our teamsWe train our teams in the area of assistive technology and accessibility
  • 14. Accessibility LabAccessibility Labs at Sunnyvale and Bangalore are equipped with different assistive technologies such as screen readers, screen magnifiers, Track ball, Refreshable Braille Display, Big Twist Switch, Voice Recognition software etc.
  • 15. Our TeamAlan Brightman, Sandeep Datar, Victor Tsaran, Srinivasu Chakravarthula and Artur Ortega
  • 16. Accessibility Task Force and SIGCore Accessibility teamAccessibility Task Force includes members fromUser Experience DesignQuality EngineeringFront End EngineeringSE & OLearning and Development
  • 17. Accessibility is considered right at the design stage
  • 19. What we do?Conduct user studiesInvolve people with disabilities in our accessibility testingDevelop Accessibility Guidelines and Checklists for Yahoo!Evangelize about accessibility in and outside Yahoo!Run a public mailing list (coming soon)
  • 20. With full effort to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0Use of ARIA for dynamic modules like Yahoo! SearchClosed captioning for videosYUI components that are accessible, like ARIA enabled Drop down menus etc. Audio CAPTCHA in Yahoo! GroupsWe Design…
  • 21. Accessibility Testing - AutomatedInternal Automation Open Source Tool Yselinium to test for high level accessibility issuesWAVE – http://wave.webaim.org/toolbarFirefox Accessibility extensionAdd-ons of Mozilla Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=accessibility&cat=all
  • 22. Manual TestingScreen ReadersNVDA – http://www.nvda-project.orgJAWS for Windows – http://www.freedomscientific.comScreen MagnifiersZoomText Xtra – http://www.aisquared.comDolphin Supernova – http://www.yourdolphin.comAlternate Input devices – Track ball and switch – http://www.ablenetinc.comDragon Naturally Speaking http://www.nuance.comTalks – a screen reader for mobile S60 phones http://www.nuance.com/talks/
  • 23. Outreach… Present in Accessibility Workshops around the countryPart of awareness programs for other organizationsEvangelize through Hack days