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From: Accessibility India
Date: Wed, Nov 17 2010 12:12AM
Subject: factors effecting accessibility for accessibility.
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Dear all,
I am supposed to share some knowledge with my team about the factors
which effect design when we follow WCAG 2.0. To be clear What are the
factors or guidelines we should consider when we do accessibility for
any website according to WCAG 2.0 level AA in respect with design.

Thanks & regards.
Rake

From: Gunderson, Jon R
Date: Wed, Nov 17 2010 7:30AM
Subject: Re: factors effecting accessibility for accessibility.
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I would refer you to the W3C Accessible Rich Internet Application specification:

http://www.w3.org/tr/wai-aria

There are also a number of supporting documents that can be found in the following website:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/PF/

One of the biggest issues and most difficult for web application developers to understand is supporting the keyboard.
Here is a link to the AOL DHTML style guide to provide information on the keyboard support needed by specific widgets:

http://dev.aol.com/dhtml_style_guide

Here are some widget examples using ARIA and the associated keyboard shortcuts:

http://www.oaa-accessibility.org/examples/

I suggest you try to use an existing web widget toolkit that already supports accessibility like Dojo:

http://www.dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/dijit-a11y-statement.html

Hope this helps. It is easier to design the accessibility in than to add it later.

Jon

From: Marco Maertens
Date: Wed, Nov 17 2010 11:06AM
Subject: Re: factors effecting accessibility for accessibility.
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Hi Rake,

Are you referring to design as in front-end development or design as is in visual design?

When I work with visual designers, two of the things I highlight specific to WCAG 2.0 AA that they usually are not used to keeping in mind are the contrast requirements (gray-on-light-gray is very trendy) and that the page must work when text is scaled to 200%.

Is that what you mean?

-Marco.

Marco Maertens
Web Developer and Accessibility Specialist
Empathy Lab
610-572-2371

From: Accessibility India
Date: Thu, Nov 18 2010 9:36PM
Subject: Re: factors effecting accessibility for accessibility.
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On 11/17/10, Marco Maertens < = EMAIL ADDRESS REMOVED = > wrote:
> Hi Rake,
>
> Are you referring to design as in front-end development or design as is in
> visual design?
>
> When I work with visual designers, two of the things I highlight specific to
> WCAG 2.0 AA that they usually are not used to keeping in mind are the
> contrast requirements (gray-on-light-gray is very trendy) and that the page
> must work when text is scaled to 200%.
>
> Is that what you mean?
>
> -Marco.
>
> Marco Maertens
> Web Developer and Accessibility Specialist
> Empathy Lab
> 610-572-2371
>
>