Re: [TechTalkFollowup] TechTalkFollowup Digest, Vol 7, Issue 3

Hi Brad, I haven't done much with web standards for accessibility requirements but it is in the plan for Dataverse 4.0 Beta (dataverse-demo.iq.harvard.edu/) to make sure we are complying. I have met with a woman at HUIT who does a lot of accessibility testing for Harvard websites and applications. She informed me that they use WCAG guidelines: http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag The minimum is to have your product compliant with WCAG 1.0. Also, I'll be testing Dataverse 4.0 Beta with JAWS screen reader and Dragon speech recognition software, which are used here at Harvard, to see how WCAG 1.0 compliant it is. I believe, but could be wrong, that being WCAG 1.0 compliant would help with potential dyslexia problems. I'm not sure how user friendly it would be to have to know to switch to a dyslexic friendly format. Once I run testing on Dataverse 4.0 Beta, I could put together some of what was found to send out so everyone can see what types of issues are found. That might be useful. Hope this helps! Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: techtalkfollowup-bounces(a)lists.iq.harvard.edu [mailto:techtalkfollowup-bounces@lists.iq.harvard.edu] On Behalf Of techtalkfollowup-request(a)lists.iq.harvard.edu Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2014 12:00 PM To: techtalkfollowup(a)lists.iq.harvard.edu Subject: TechTalkFollowup Digest, Vol 7, Issue 3 Send TechTalkFollowup mailing list submissions to techtalkfollowup(a)lists.iq.harvard.edu To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.iq.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/techtalkfollowup or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to techtalkfollowup-request(a)lists.iq.harvard.edu You can reach the person managing the list at techtalkfollowup-owner(a)lists.iq.harvard.edu When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of TechTalkFollowup digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Understanding UX & Usability Slides (Frank, Bradley) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 May 2014 16:55:37 -0400 From: "Frank, Bradley" <bfrank(a)hmdc.harvard.edu> To: "[List] Tech Talk" <techtalkfollowup(a)lists.iq.harvard.edu> Subject: Re: [TechTalkFollowup] Understanding UX & Usability Slides Message-ID: <CAAMBG6rC-1VfP7UuE+d+fVmaXeTTwawMKE1fLQui6WFzUNQPhg(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hi Elizabeth, Loved the Tech Talk, got us thinking about a lot of the elements in RCE. I was curious how much you deal with web standards. I spent a great deal of time formatting one specific webpage to be as standards-compliant /and/ accessible as possible, which meant following HTML5 and ARIA for the most part. They have a test tool here: http://wave.webaim.org/ but it doesn't cover everything. I learned that certain formatting can assist people with dyslexia, and there are guidelines to improve their user experience: http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-dyslexia/further-information/dyslexia-s… . I concluded that it would essentially require a separate CSS file, and a little JS maybe to allow users to switch between the two. But other wise doable I think. (Sadly I didn't quite get that far myself, and there doesn't seem to be any other guidelines for this.) Any thoughts on something like this? Are there other visual/neurological impairments that you've come across that websites can format for? Brad