1. ADA Section 508:
Accessibility
(Americans with Disabilities Act Section 508)
Eileen Chen S

2. Do you know how many people with
disabilities live in the U.S.?
Figure1: The U.S. Flag

3. 2010 Disability Status
Disability Status Disability
Country Total As a pct.
Disability No Disability of total
U.S. 304,287,836 36,354,712 267,933,124 11.9%
There are more than 36 million people with disabilities
living in the U.S.. This means that 12% of the
population has a disability.

4. 2011 California
Annual Disability Statistic Compendium
State California
Total 36,815,569
Disability 3,640,092
No Disability 33,175,477
Disability As
a pct. of total 9.9%
In California, the population
for people with disabilities is
Figure 2: The Map of the U.S.. more than 3 million six
Graphic image by Eileen Chen
hundred thousand.

5. What is the definition of
disability
?

6. Disability is …
“A physical or mental condition
that limits a person's
movements, senses, or
activities.”

7. The types of disability may include:
S Blindness and visual S Learning disability
impairments
S Mobility impairment
S Speech or language
impairments S Dysgraphia – difficulty in
writing or using a mouse
S Hearing impaired
S Mental illness
S Physical disability
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/S
trategies/Disability/

8. As people increase relying on electronics and
information technologies, accessibility of
online information is important. However, there
are many people who are suffering from
conditions that affect their use of online
materials and access to the web.

9. Questions?
S How can education/educators make a
difference when there is a huge population of
people who are affected by disabilities?
S What can educators do to help all students
succeed in school by using the level of
technology?

10. Accessibility and Usability for
California Community Colleges
Since 1996, California Community College
Systems have been working to assure
accessibility and usability of all college courses
for students with disabilities.

11. Americans with Disabilities Act
Section 508
S ADA Section 508 is a set of standards to
insure that online materials and websites are
fully accessible for all students with or
without disabilities.

12. The sets of standard for
ADA Section 508
include:
S

13. For videos and audios
S Visual content has
audio description.
S Synchronized captions
or transcripts.
Title: Keeping Web Accessibility in Mind
http://webaim.org/intro

14. For still images
S A sighted student might quickly understand what content will be
by seeing the image, but students with visually impaired can’t.
So, the images have to be described as HTML tags called Alt
Tags and including the long descriptions to describe the images.
S Example:
[[File:: usmap.png|thumb |160px
|alt=The Map of the U.S.|[[Map: The
Map of the U.S.]] by [[Eileen Chen]].]] Content:
In California, the population
for people with disabilities
is more than 3 million six
hundred thousand.

15. For PDF documents
S Searchable text file - not a scanned image of
printed materials.
S Structural elements, including images, have
tags.
S Language is specified.
S A guide is included.

16. Keyboard Access
S Having keyboard shortcut and adding keyboard
access to application. Make sure that all tasks
can be completed through the keyboard. Users
won’t rely on a mouse or a roll-over to get the
content.

17. Provide text for non-text content
(including pictures and audio)
S All graphics and visual elements must have text
description that a screen reader is able to read.
S All videos and audios must have a caption
transcript.
S Captions are readable.

18. For color contrast
S Contrast different colors of background and
text - when you overlap two colors, you
want it easy to see what you have in the
text.
Black background
and
white text

19. For Presentation
S Any multimedia presentation shall be
synchronized with the presentation.

20. Web Accessibility
S Every link and media must have a tag when input the content to the
website.
S Pictures have purpose to help provide understanding to all students.
S Accessibility of non-HTML content, like PDF and Microsoft. Ensure
students with/without disabilities are able to complete all of the
forms.
S Allows users to skip navigation on each page and jump to the
content.
S Clean and organized that the contents are readable.
S Header! Header! Title! Title!

21. Solutions
For people who are blind or have low vision
S Access to the keyboard.
S Screen reader (ex. JAWS – Job Access With Speech) in
connection with the Internet. The user will hear what is
being displayed on the screen.
www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility
http://webaim.org/intro/video

22. Solutions
For people who can’t hear
S Text.
S Graphics images.
S Videos and audios need to captions.
www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility
http://webaim.org/intro/video

23. What a school can do
for educators to meet
Section 508
requirements?
S

24. The School can have a tech specialist
to train and provide guidelines for its
employees in order to meet the
requirements of Section 508.
S

25. An example of a checklist
Standards Purpose Solution Yes/No Notes
Web-based *For people with *Screen readers *devices can
technology and vision impairments. will read what's on "read" the text
information a computer on the screen.
(1194.22) screen.
Web-based *For people with *Verbal tags. *Identity the
technology and vision impairments. graphics and
information format.
(1194.22)
Web-based *A verbal descriptor *Text labels.
technology and for graphics and
information images
(1194.22)
Video or *Ensure access to *Captioning.
Multimedia people with hearing *Video
Products disabilities. description.
(1194.24)

26. How to make sure students
have equal access to
educational opportunity?
S

27. S When instructors prepare online materials, they should
be sure to provide accessibility in all of their assignments;
especially those that are posted on the web.
S Let’s make technology more accessible and allow all
students to have access to online materials and
technology regardless if students have disabilities or not.
S Working in the field of education, educators are not only
suppose to support the standard of Section 508, they
want to see that students can have an equal opportunity
to access the same type of information and
technology, and they also want to see students succeed
in school and actively participate in the society.

28. Contact us
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Distance Learning, ADA Section 508, presentation, and technique
Support.
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29. Conclusion
Educators would like to follow the Law of ADA
Section 508, respect each individual’s need,
offer an equal opportunity to everyone, and
make online documents/websites fully
accessible to all students with or without
disabilities.

30. References
http://www.bbc.co.uk/accessibility/
http://www.section508.gov
http://webaim.org/intro/video
http://www.htctu.net/dlguidelines/2011%20Distance%20Education%20Accessibility
%20Guidelines%20FINAL.pdf
http://webaim.org/techniques/alttext/#intro
https://www.washington.edu/doit/Brochures/Technology/wtcomp.html
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty/Strategies/Disability/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXN7CfZuyeQ
http://www.dts.ca.gov/policies/accessibility.asp

31. Thank You!