Accessibility/Meeting Notes 2018-06-11

Accessibility

Date

Monday, 11 June 2018 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Meetup Event

https://www.meetup.com/NetSquared-Kitchener-Waterloo/events/245691598/

Location

The Chapel in First United Church, 16 William Street West, Waterloo, Ontario Map

Event Announcement

Accessibility/Announcement 2018-06-11

Is your Non-Profit organization accessible? Can your website contents be read by a text-to-speech synthesizer? By a Braille reader? With a screen magnifier? Without Javascript? In a text-only browser? Does it pass the WAVE Web Accessibility Tool validator? Does your podcast have a text transcription? Is your video described? What other accessibility tools does a SysAdmin need to manage? What legal requirements for accessibility are there?

Join other Kitcher-Waterloo Non-Profit System Administrators for examples, demonstrations and our usual round-table discussion, and perhaps a guest presentation! Everyone is welcome, you don't have to be a Non-Profit System Administrator to attend.

--Bob Jonkman & Marc Paré

• Accessibility/Meeting Notes 2018-06-11

Resources

• Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools List | W3C.org
  • WAVE Web Accessibility Tool

• Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005, S.O. 2005, c. 11
  • The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act: A Refresher for Nonprofits | TechSoup Canada
  • Accessibility rules for businesses and non-profits | Gov't of Ontario

• Accessibility 101: How to make your nonprofit’s digital content more accessible

Meeting Notes

• Introductions
  • LibreOffice group is happening; there is money to hold a hackfest
  • Also planning a campaign for LibreOffice, not much awareness in North America
  • Maybe 160 million users

AODA

• "Acessibility
• 2/3 way into the mandate
  • But not even 1/3 of the way there
  • McGuinty govt in 1999 claimed that we would be fully accessible by 2025
  • But not enough attention or funding supplied
  • Only recourse is Human Rights claims
  • Applies to
    • Customer service (people providing cust serv must have dignity, independence, integration, &c.)
    • Information and Communications (eg. web sites)
      • What standards exist? How do we become compliant?
    • Transportation (eg. transit)
      • TTC is under fire for transgressions (show video for York University station)
• Many accessibility features are put in place that don't provide accessibility (eg. new door requires automatic opener, but still has a step up and no ramp)

Sample sites

• The Government web site is Javascript dependent
• The WAVE validator is also Javascript dependent

• The initial AODA standards were applied to government regulated organizations
  • eg. banks were amongst the first employers to apply accessibility standards
  • But the problem is that disabilities were self-declared, and so
  • Some disabilities do not require accomodation, so some people may have been hired in preference to some people that did require accomodation (cheaper to provide minimal accomodation). But the stats show that an equal number of people with disabilities were accomodated, no matter how slight or severe.

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