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Social Media Accessibility:
Where Are We Today?
OpenWeb Camp IVSan Jose – July 14th, 2012
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Attribution ⬌ NonCommercial ⬌ ShareAlike 2.5 Canada
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Some Rights Reserved
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Yeah so, in case you haven’t noticed already...
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Speaker
Denis Boudreau
12 years in Web Accessibility
Web Accessibility consultant
Chairman, AccessibilitéWeb
Co-editor, SGQRI 008 standards
Invited Expert, W3C
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Social Media Offer Great Opportunities...
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...If you’re lucky enough to be able to use them
Social Media Should be About People
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Communicating, Sharing, Interacting, Bonding, Networking, Contributing, Fighting (why not!)...
...With each other & on the Web.
As It Turns Out...
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This is not always the case! (Real) people get left behind based on...• Physical disability• Aging conditions• Technological illiteracy• PREJUDICE appearances
How can we
play along...
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Dealing with inclusion and a11y requirements
Are social media accessible at all?
Are social media compliant with our requirements?
Can social media be made accessible?
Can we influence the social media giants positively?
With everyone on board?
Dealing with the unknown...
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Communication strategies Social media infatuation Legal requirements Moral responsibilities Public expectations Etc.
Evaluation Results Overview
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Total of success criteria successfully met (2011)
Most Common a11y Problems
#1 – Section Headings 0/3 0/3 2/3 1/3 1/3
#2 – Color Contrasts 0/1 0/1 0/1 1/1 0/1
#3 – Labels and Form Fields 0/2 0/2 0/2 1/2 0/2
#4 – Keyboard Navigation 0/7 1/7 2/7 0/7 0/7
#5 – Text Equivs for Images 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
#6 – Multimedia NA 0/3 NA 0/3 0/3
#7 – Language 0/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2
#8 – Validation 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
Total Success Criteria Met 0/15 2/20 5/15 4/20 2/20
Criteria #1: Section Headings
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Percentage of success criteria successfully met
WCAG 2.0 - Success Criteria
1.3.1 - Info and Relationships 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
2.4.2 - Page Titled 0% 0% 100% 100% 0%
4.1.1 - Parsing 0% 0% 100% 0% 100%
Percentage of Success Criteria Met 0% 0% 67% 33% 33%
Criteria #2: Color Contrasts
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Percentage of success criteria successfully met
WCAG 2.0 - Success Criteria
1.4.3 - Contrast (Minimum) 0% 0% 0% 100% 0%
Percentage of Success Criteria Met 0% 0% 0% 100% 0%
Criteria #3: Labels and Form Fields
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Percentage of success criteria successfully met
WCAG 2.0 - Success Criteria
1.3.1 - Info and Relationships 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
3.3.2 - Labels or Instructions 0% 0% 0% 100% 0%
Percentage of Success Criteria Met 0% 0% 0% 50% 0%
Criteria #4: Keyboard Navigation
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Percentage of success criteria successfully met
WCAG 2.0 - Success Criteria
1.3.1 - Info and Relationships 0% 100% 0% 0% 0%
1.3.2 - Meaningful Sequence 0% 0% 100% 0% 0%
1.4.4 - Resize text 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
2.1.1 - Keyboard 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
2.4.1 - Bypass Blocks 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
2.4.3 - Focus Order 0% 0% 100% 0% 0%
2.4.7 - Focus Visible 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Percentage of Success Criteria Met 0% 14% 29% 0% 0%
Criteria #5: Text Equivalents for Images
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Percentage of success criteria successfully met
WCAG 2.0 - Success Criteria
1.1.1 - Non-text Content 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Percentage of Success Criteria Met 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Criteria #6: Multimedia
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Percentage of success criteria successfully met
WCAG 2.0 - Success Criteria
1.1.1 - Non-text Content NA 0% NA 0% 0%
1.2.1 - Audio & Video-only (Prerec.) NA 0% NA 0% 0%
1.2.2 - Captions (Prerecorded) NA 0% NA 0% 0%
Percentage of Success Criteria Met NA 0% NA 0% 0%
Criteria #7: Language
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Percentage of success criteria successfully met
WCAG 2.0 - Success Criteria
3.1.1 - Language of Page 0% 100% 100% 100% 100%
3.1.2 - Language of Parts 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Percentage of Success Criteria Met 0% 50% 50% 50% 50%
Criteria #8: Validation
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Percentage of success criteria successfully met
WCAG 2.0 - Success Criteria
4.1.1 - Parsing 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Percentage of Success Criteria Met 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Overall success rating...
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Could they do any WORSE if they actually tried?
Well, let’s take a look!
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Six months later... What are the improvements?
•✔ Adjacent links and link images combined
•✔ Properly closed HTML tags
• No noticeable improvements
•✔ Decorative images made invisible to screen readers
•✘Some HTML tags aren’t properly closed anymore
•✘Some presentation aspects are now handled in HTML
•✔ Contextual metadata are now used to describe pages
•✔ Adjacent links and link images combined
• No noticeable improvements
2012: Just as bad as it was six months agoMost Common a11y
Problems
#1 – Section Headings 0/3 0/3 2/3 1/3 1/3
#2 – Color Contrasts 0/1 0/1 0/1 1/1 0/1
#3 – Labels and Form Fields 0/2 0/2 0/2 1/2 0/2
#4 – Keyboard Navigation 0/7 1/7 2/7 0/7 0/7
#5 – Text Equivs for Images 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
#6 – Multimedia NA 0/3 NA 0/3 0/3
#7 – Language 0/2 1/2 1/2 1/2 1/2
#8 – Validation 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
Total Success Criteria Met 0/15 2/20 5/15 4/20 2/20
Not enough to make a difference!
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...what can WE do to improve social media accessibility?
So, if THEY won’t take accessibility seriously...
What Can Organizations Do?
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Setting the rules...
Allowing?
Controling?
Prohibiting?
Reinventing the (social media) wheel?
What's your social a11y gameplan?How can organizations tackle social media responsibly?
Helping Social Media Giants Understand
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Slice of life: “The Survey Monkey Incident”
Using constructive criticism to get results
Getting Involved!• Contribute! Build! Hack!• (Beg if you have to!)
Promote accessible options (Easy Chirp, Deque’s Amaze, etc.)
Reach out to existing initiatives (Fix The Web, W3C, etc.)
Thank You!
Denis Boudreau,
Chairman
Coopérative AccessibilitéWeb
1751 Richardson street, suite 6111
Montreal (Quebec), Canada H3K 1G6
Toll Free: +1 (877) 315-5550
Email: db@csaw.ca
Twitter: @dboudreau
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