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Proceedings of the 2019 ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium: Perfecting Traditional Methods, Tackling Emerging Interfaces, and Beyond Proceedings of the 2019 ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium: Perfecting Traditional Methods, Tackling Emerging Interfaces, and Beyond Washington DC October 1 & 2, 2019 Partnership for Public Service Conference Center, 1100 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20005, USA Organized by Accessibility Track Consulting, LLC www.ictaccessibilitytesting.org Contents Introduction from the Chair .......................................................................................... 1 Keynote: “The Missing Link: Accessibility and Usability Working Together” .................. 3 Workshop: Introduction to Trusted Tester Methods ....................................................... 5 Workshop: Assessing and Authoring Image Descriptions for Digital Learning Products ........................................................................................... 7 Workshop: Mobile Testing Workshop ............................................................................ 9 Workshop: Testing PDFs for Accessibility and Standards Conformance ..................... 11 Workshop: Finding Ways to Make Accessibility Resonate with Your Team: “Inclusive Design is not Rocket Science” ................................................................. 15 Bootcamp Course: Tools for Assessing Organizational Risk for Managers of Accessibility Testing Programs ................................................................................ 17 Bootcamp Course: Accessibility Testing for Beginners .............................................. 21 W3C Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Rules for WCAG ................................. 23 Accessibility Testing: Mileage May Vary ....................................................................... 31 Creating an Accessibility Testing Program in an Academic Research Setting .............. 41 Comparing Free Automated Accessibility Testing Tools ............................................... 51 Testing the Accessibility of Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, and other Extended Reality Experiences ................................................................................................. 59 UX Research Methods supporting Text-to-Speech Accessibility Guidelines Development ............................................................................................................ 67 POURING RAIN: An Extended Model for Making Immersive AR/VR and Emerging Systems Accessible ................................................................................................. 75 ICT Accessibility Testing: Recruiting and Training Techniques .................................... 81 Remediation Order Matters: What to Fix First? ............................................................ 89 A Case for a Risk-Based Sampling Approach to Manual Accessibility Testing ............. 97 Investigating Factors that Affect Web Accessibility Implementation in Non-Profit Websites ............................................................................................... 103 How WCAG 2.1 benefits people with cognitive impairment ......................................... 113 Testing Video Players for accessibility ........................................................................ 121 How to measure digital accessibility and legal exposure ............................................. 129 Utilizing “Big” Accessibility Data to Transform the Web ............................................... 139 Symposium Committee ............................................................................................... 145 Author Index ................................................................................................................ 149 The 2019 ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium: Perfecting Traditional Methods, Tackling Emerging Interfaces, and Beyond Introduction from the Chair Dr. Chris M. Law Chair, The 2019 ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Accessibility Testing Symposium continues to grow each year. For the main two days of the symposium we have a packed and varied program. For our first theme, ‘Perfecting Traditional Methods’, many submissions relate to the management and implementation of testing programs in real-world settings. For our second theme, ‘Tackling Emerging Interfaces’, we have papers on augmented, virtual and mixed reality, as well as artificial intelligence and advanced text-to-speech development. Both themes bring to the forefront of our minds the long-standing quandary of how we can address both technical standards conformance and usability. Our keynote speaker has pioneered guidance and practice at the intersection of accessibility and usability. Last year we offered a bootcamp course for beginners to learn accessibility testing. This year we’re offering a super-sized version: a two-day bootcamp course on testing that is preceded by the symposium and a full day workshop, along with mentoring and coaching sessions throughout the week with the instructor and members of the symposium committee. We have a diverse range of full- and half-day workshops prior to the symposium newcomers catering to beginner and intermediate (and above) levels. We are also offering a post-conference bootcamp course on managing risk in accessibility programs, led by yours truly and Pina D’Intino. This course, tailored to accessibility testing management professionals, is a modified version from that taught for the first time ever at this year’s Digital Accessibility Legal Summit, which took place in March 2019. On behalf of the Committee, we invite you to join like-minded colleagues in DC this fall for our fourth annual symposium. Sincerely, Chris M. Law, Chair, 2019 Symposium Committee 1 The 2019 ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium: Perfecting Traditional Methods, Tackling Emerging Interfaces, and Beyond Keynote: “The Missing Link: Accessibility and Usability Working Together” Shawn Lawton Henry Accessibility is not about meeting standards. However, accessibility is often approached as a standards checklist. Accessibility is fundamentally about people— designing products so that people with disabilities can use them effectively. When you shift the focus of accessibility to people, you reap all sorts of benefits, such as more efficient development and evaluation. Traditional usability practices work well for accessibility. And, general usability benefits from addressing accessibility. In this keynote, you'll learn how to get your boss and colleagues on board, how to maximize the benefits of accessibility and usability working together, and about resources to support your efforts. Shawn Henry leads worldwide education and outreach promoting web accessibility for people with disabilities at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Before joining the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), she developed and implemented strategies to optimize user interface design for usability and accessibility with Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, education providers, and research centers. Shawn focuses her personal passion for accessibility on bringing together the needs of individuals and the goals of organizations in designing human-computer interfaces. Her book Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design offers an approach for developing products that are more usable for everyone. 3 The 2019 ICT Accessibility Testing Symposium: Perfecting Traditional Methods, Tackling Emerging Interfaces, and Beyond Workshop: Introduction to Trusted Tester Methods Andrew Nielson New Editions Consulting, Inc. [email protected] Kristen Smith-O’Connor New Editions Consulting, Inc. [email protected] Ann Marie Davis New Editions Consulting, Inc. [email protected] Abstract This workshop introduces the DHS Trusted Tester 5.0 process and presents some primary methodologies for performing the manual testing process. The workshop also provides hands-on practice using the Accessible Name and Description Inspector (ANDI) to perform key parts of the Trusted Tester test process. Participants will receive information with a direct application to the Trusted Tester training curriculum and certification exam. Trusted Tester 5.0 Background The goal of the Trusted Tester program is to create and maintain a standardized approach for validating conformance against the Section 508 standards. A Working Group from the U.S. Federal Chief Information Officers’ Council (CIOC), Accessibility Community of Practice (ACOP) revised the Trusted Tester process, to align with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 and the Revised Section 508 Standards. Trusted Tester 5.0 also improves the overall format, flow, and construction of the process and its test conditions to improve readability, coherence, and the overall effectiveness of the test process. The Trusted Tester process is recognized as a leading practice among federal agencies in manual accessibility testing of information and communication technologies (ICT). The current version of Trusted Tester for Web and the Harmonized Process for Section 508 Testing are also both pending formal adoption by the ACOP. 5 Workshops Workshop Overview The Trusted Tester 5.0 Basics workshop provides an opportunity for participants to jumpstart their education in manual accessibility testing for web content. The workshop is not intended as a replacement for the full Trusted Tester training curriculum. The workshop complements the Trusted Tester training curriculum by providing participants with an in-depth understanding of some of the core
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