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Tools and Techniques for Accessible Web Content Workshop
Featuring Dr. Jon Gunderson
Learn best practice techniques for PowerPoint Titles, Layouts, Tables, Images, and more. See how the Accessible Web Publishing Wizard creates an Accessible HTML output of your presentation and discover the Functional Accessibility Evaluation Tool for analyzing web resources.
Watch the August 4, 2006 archived presentations!
(Archives must be viewed with Internet Explorer, on a PC.)
Part One: Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard
Transcript (web version) (.doc version)
Illinois Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft® Office provides a simple way to create highly accessible and standards compliant web versions of Office documents that are more accessible and usable by everyone, including people with disabilities.
Background: To resolve the PowerPoint accessibility problem, Jon Gunderson developed a software tool called the Accessible Web Publishing Wizard. Gunderson said the tool "simplifies the task of converting PowerPoint presentations, Microsoft Word documents and – in the future – Excel spreadsheets to accessible HTML through an easy-to-use user interface and automation of many of the details of conversion.
The beauty of the product, he said, is that "it allows instructors and other content developers to create highly accessible HTML versions of PowerPoint presentations with little or no knowledge of accessibility or HTML coding techniques." the Wizard also makes it easy for developers to conform to accessibility standards prescribed by the federal government as well as those documented in the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Gunderson said the tool is called a "wizard" because "in general, ‘wizard’ is part of the Microsoft jargon for a program that guides a user through a series of steps to accomplish a task. The wizard is smart and can modify the sequence of steps based on responses in previous steps."
Part Two: Functional Accessibility Evaluation Tool (FAE)
Transcript (web version) (.doc version)
Functional Accessibility Evaluation Tool (FAE), formerly called the Web Accessibility Management Tool (WAMT), CITES/DRES HTML Best Practices for development of functionally accessible web resources that also support interoperability.
Background: The Functional Accessibility Evaluator (FAE), analyzes web resources for markup for development of functionally accessible web resources that also support interoperability and comply with accessibility standards -- meeting the functional accessibility needs of people with disabilities and benefit the functional design to everyone.
Featuring Dr. Jon Gunderson, Director of IT Accessibility Services at University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, will share best practices, accessibility management and visualization tools (developed at UICU) to improve the design and verification of the functional accessibility of web resources.
Dr. Jon Gunderson is currently the Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Accessibility in the Division of Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES) and Director of IT Accessibility Services Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Industrial Engineering with an emphasis in Human Factors. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from UW-Madison in Electrical and Computer engineering.
He is currently responsible for computer and information technology accessibility issues for students, faculty and staff with disabilities at UIUC. Before his present position at UIUC, he was an adjunct assistant professor in an Rehabilitation Services Administration sponsored rehabilitation engineering training program at DRES. As a graduate student he worked at the Trace Research and Development Center. While at the Trace Center he worked on a number of R&D projects and the evaluation of a number of technologies for people with motor impairments and visual impairments. His continued research interests focus on how to improve the design information technologies for people with disabilities to achieve maximum performance and greater independence in their use of computer based technologies.
Currently he is working on projects related to the web and information technology accessibility. He is the past chair of the W3C User Agent Working Group and currently involved in making DHTML more accessible as part of the W3C Protocols and Formats Working Group. He also developed PC Talking Typing Tutor a software program for Microsoft Windows to teach people with visual impairments and blindness how to touch type and Illinois Accessible Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office. Projects he has lead for web accessibility include the Mozilla/Firefox Accessibility Extension and the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator Tool. These tools help very the use of the CITES/DRES Web Accessibility Best Practices that can be used to implement the requirements of the Section 508 and W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This event was sponsored by:
Technology Accessibility Program
MIDWEST Alliance in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics
With support from:
The AccessComputing Alliance, funded by the National Science Foundation (grant #CNS-0540615)
For additional information, contact: Alice Anderson or Amy Fruchman.