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WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 - Best Practices and Web Standards for accessibility Tutorial

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The objective of this Tutorial is for participants to understand the needs of people with disabilities and a best practices approach using web standards to implement Federal Section 508 standards and W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The Tutorial will present tools and techniques needed for managing and implementing accessible design. The Tutorial will discuss how organizations can work together to improve the accessibility of purchased web resources and services using a collaboration model and developing a common set of purchasing requirements. Examples of accessible design will be presented, discussing how cooperation among higher educational institutions leads to improvements in web accessibility. The Tutorial demonstrates how accessible design benefits all users, by providing developers with a more efficient and cost effective way of creating and maintaining web resources, and giving everyone more flexibility and options in accessing and using web resources.

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Part1: Alternative Views of the Web

Part 2: Accessibility Guidelines

Part 3: Best practices for accessible design

Part 4: Examples of the use of accessible design

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Presenter Information

Picture of Jon GundersonDr. Gunderson is the Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Accessibility in the Division of Disability Resources and Education Services (DRES) at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois. 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 a visiting 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. He is working on number of projects related to the web and information technology accessibility that are part of the Illinois Center on Information Technology Accessibility (iCITA). He is the past chair of the W3C User Agent Working Group and currently involved in making dynamic HTML more accessible as part of the W3C Protocols and Formats Working Group work on the Accessible Rich Internet Applications. He has given numerous presentations, workshops and courses related to web accessibility. He leads the development of the Firefox Accessibility Extension and the Illinois Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator Tool. These tools help verify the use of the iCITA HTML Accessibility Best Practices techniques to implement the requirements of the Section 508 and W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. He led the development of the Accessible Web Publishing Wizard for Microsoft Office to help authors create accessible HTML version of Microsoft Office documents and is now a commercial project from Virtual 508. . He also developed the PC Talking Typing Tutor a software program for Microsoft Windows to teach people with visual impairments and blindness how to touch type.

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