7. Why are you interested in
accessibility?
✤ Enlightened self-interest
8. Why are you interested in
accessibility?
✤ Enlightened self-interest
✤ Professionalism
9. Why are you interested in
accessibility?
✤ Enlightened self-interest
✤ Professionalism
✤ Legal
10. Why are you interested in
accessibility?
✤ Enlightened self-interest
✤ Professionalism
✤ Legal
✤ Unique selling point
11. Why are you interested in
accessibility?
✤ Enlightened self-interest
✤ Professionalism
✤ Legal
✤ Unique selling point
✤ Technical challenge
12. Why are you interested in
accessibility?
✤ Enlightened self-interest
✤ Professionalism
✤ Legal
✤ Unique selling point
✤ Technical challenge
✤ Ethical thing to do
13. What are Cyberethics?
The study of ethics pertaining to computer networks:
✤ Acceptable behaviour for using the Internet
✤ Storage and display of personal data
✤ Ownership of digital data
✤ Access to adult content
✤ The right to access Internet content
14. Internet Engineering Task Force:
RFC 1087
Defines as unethical anything which:
✤ Seeks to gain unauthorised access to the resources of the Internet.
✤ Disrupts the intended use of the Internet.
✤ Wastes resources (people, capacity, computer) through such
actions.
✤ Destroys the integrity of computer-based information, or
✤ Compromises the privacy of users
15. Ten Commandments of Computer
Ethics
1. Thou shalt not use a computer to harm other people.
2. Thou shalt not interfere with other people's computer work.
3. Thou shalt not snoop around in other people's computer files.
4. Thou shalt not use a computer to steal.
5. Thou shalt not use a computer to bear false witness.
16. Ten Commandments of Computer
Ethics
6. Thou shalt not copy or use proprietary software for which you
have not paid.
7. Thou shalt not use other people's computer resources without
authorisation or proper compensation.
8. Thou shalt not appropriate other people's intellectual output.
9. Thou shalt think about the social consequences of the program you
are writing or the system you are designing.
10.Thou shalt always use a computer in ways that ensure
consideration and respect for your fellow humans
17. The Code of Fair Information
Practices
1. There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose
very existence is secret.
2. There must be a way for a person to find out what information
about the person is in a record and how it is used.
3. There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the
person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made
available for other purposes without the person's consent.
18. The Code of Fair Information
Practices
4. There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of
identifiable information about the person.
5. Any organisation creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating
records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of
the data for their intended use and must take precautions to
prevent misuses of the data.
20. The Universal Declaration of
Human Rights
Article 27
Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the
community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement
and its benefits.
21. UN Convention on the Rights of
Persons with Disabilities
Article 9 - Accessibility
To promote access for persons with disabilities to new information
and communications technologies and systems, including the
Internet;
23. Starting points for a definition of
Cyberethical Accessibility
✤ The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone
regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
24. Starting points for a definition of
Cyberethical Accessibility
✤ The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone
regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
✤ Web pages are designed for people.
25. Starting points for a definition of
Cyberethical Accessibility
✤ The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone
regardless of disability is an essential aspect.
✤ Web pages are designed for people.
✤ Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it
should be the same information.
36. How to build a webpage
✤ Content and markup
✤ Including alternative and link text
37. How to build a webpage
✤ Content and markup
✤ Including alternative and link text
✤ Images based on alternative / link text
38. How to build a webpage
✤ Content and markup
✤ Including alternative and link text
✤ Images based on alternative / link text
✤ CSS
39. How to build a webpage
✤ Content and markup
✤ Including alternative and link text
✤ Images based on alternative / link text
✤ CSS
✤ JavaScript
40. How to build a webpage
✤ Content and markup
✤ Including alternative and link text
✤ Images based on alternative / link text
✤ CSS
✤ JavaScript
✤ Usability enhancements
41. How to build a webpage
✤ Content and markup
✤ Including alternative and link text
✤ Images based on alternative / link text
✤ CSS
✤ JavaScript
✤ Usability enhancements
✤ Always consider focus, make Virtual Buffer refreshes
44. How to build a webpage (part 2)
✤ WAI-ARIA
✤ Usability enhancements
45. How to build a webpage (part 2)
✤ WAI-ARIA
✤ Usability enhancements
✤ Be careful - WAI-ARIA may be hazardous to your usability
46. How to build a webpage (part 2)
✤ WAI-ARIA
✤ Usability enhancements
✤ Be careful - WAI-ARIA may be hazardous to your usability
✤ Assistive technology specific fixes
49. Considerations
✤ Does it prevent user customisation?
✤ When there are conflicts, does it minimise the problems for the
conflicted option?
50. Considerations
✤ Does it prevent user customisation?
✤ When there are conflicts, does it minimise the problems for the
conflicted option?
✤ Assistive technology bugs
72. Accessibility Cyberethics
We must:
✤ Aim to provide an equivalent experience to all users
✤ Maximise support for the majority
✤ Minimise friction for the minority
73. Accessibility Cyberethics
We must:
✤ Aim to provide an equivalent experience to all users
✤ Maximise support for the majority
✤ Minimise friction for the minority
✤ Build tools that are both accessible and produce accessible output
74. Accessibility Cyberethics
We must:
✤ Aim to provide an equivalent experience to all users
✤ Maximise support for the majority
✤ Minimise friction for the minority
✤ Build tools that are both accessible and produce accessible output
✤ Evangelise accessibility
79. Accessibility Cyberethics
We must not:
✤ Regress accessibility between versions
✤ See accessibility as a competitive advantage
✤ Give up the good fight!
80. Always strive to do the best you
can with the knowledge and
resources that you have
