ADA and Section 508: Universal Design of Web Resources using Best Practices and Web Standards
Designing Universally Accessible Web Resources workshop will provide experiences in:
- How people with disabilities access the web
- Review the current accessibility guidelines
- Demonstrate accessible design practices
This workshop will help disability service professionals, administrators and web developers understand accessible design issues related to the creation of web resources and how changes to web development practices and testing can create web resources that are not only more usable by everyone, inlcuding people with disabilities.
Location and Time
- Date: September 9th, 2008
- Time: 1:00pm-5:00pm
- Room: TBA
- Cost: $75 for non-NAGW members (Registration for NAGW conference is not required for pre-conference workshops)
- Location: National Association of Government Webmasters Conference at Pheasant Run Resort & Spa in St. Charles, Illinois.
Registration Options
Agenda
Part 1: Alternative Views of the Web
- Disability simulation
- Adjusting web browsers
- Speech browsing
Part 2: Design Guidelines and Planning
- Accessible Design verses Accessible Repair
- W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines
- Section 508 guidelines
- IITAA Web Accessibility Standards
- Functional Accessibility
Break
Part 3: Functional Evaluation Tools
- Web Accessiblity Evalutation Tools
- Webxact
- Cynthia Says
- WebAIM Wave
- Firefox Accessibility Extension
http://firefox.cita.uiuc.edu - Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator
http://fae.cita.uiuc.edu
Part 4: Examples of Redesigning for Accessibility
- Redesigning web resources to be more accessible
- Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office
- Other resources
Presentor Contact
- Jon Gunderson, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign
Presentor
Dr. Jon Gunderson is the Director of Information Technology Accessibility for people with disabilities at UIUC in the Division of Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES) and Campus Information Technologies and Education Services (CITES). He has been working in the area of web accessibility for over 10 years and is the past chair of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative User Agent Accessibility Guidelines working group. He has given numerous presentations and has taught several courses on designing universally accessible web resources.
Find out more about web accessibility at the iCITA website