INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT

Accessible MN.IT
Jay Wyant, CIAO August 1, 2013

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT

with emphasis on Minnesota government

Objectives
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT

Discuss why accessible technology matters Understand the barriers to accessibility Know the basis of MN.IT accessibility standards Discuss implications for you and your organizations

Accessibility quote by Tim Berners-Lee

The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
-- Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director and inventor of the World Wide Web

 What is Accessibility? What is Accommodation? What is Assistive Technology (AT)?

 Content Buy/Build Project Management

Separate content from presentation Use of templates and styles Dependent on design, production and management

Tight structure Everybody has a button Snapshot with hidden structure Start with accessible source document

 What are your processes? Who determines what goes online? Who determines final format?

 Document vs. Web Best practices CAPTCHAs

 Policies/Standards?
Accessibility Open Data/Source Mobile Strategy Responsive Design

The way to think about the visual system is as a way to ask questions about a spatial database. If you give someone another way to ask the questions and get the answers, they dont need vision.

 RFP/Development requirements How do you define what you want? VPATs Add to your toolkit Demand vendor knowledge/ accountability Requirement vs. scoring Evaluation training

 How do you test? How do you enforce? Access-IT resource

 Planning Budget Allocation of resources Sample situations Requirements design/development Software development QA/Testing Captioning ...how does the BA/PM know what needs to be done, when?

 Policies & Standards Best practices Aware and trained staff

 What do I do for you? Policy frameworks Doc best practices Testing resources/practices/training Communities of practices Awareness and outreach

 Mobile users Multiple platforms Multiple media streams Nimble, flexible

Accessibility concepts enhance your planning and design framework

 Federal
Section 508
ADA (Title II)

State
MN 2009 law (chapter131)
2013 Public Records statute 363A.42

Guidelines
WCAG 2.0

Roll your own?

 Screen readers not same as text-tospeech Most popular readers: Freedom Scientifics JAWS NVDA Demo: http://www.youtube.co m/watch?v=l6Jjn8DP WkY

A Pause for Questions

Tend to be: Creative problem solvers Productive Lower absentee rates Loyal

The proportion of executive branch employees with a self-reported disability has steadily declined over the past 13 years, from 10.1 in 1999 to 3.8 in 2012.
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Thank You!
Jay Wyant jay.wyant@state.mn.us