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Posted August 8th, 2007 by Jim Sneeringer
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Problem Summary: iMIS must be accessible to people with disabilities
Pattern Key: ACCESSIBILITY
Example: None
Use When: Always
Solution: UX is working with Dev & PM to determine what level of conformance we should support.

W3C Links

  1. Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
  2. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
  3. Understanding WCAG 2.0
  4. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
  5. WAI-ARIA Best Practices
  6. WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference

iMISCommunity

Testing

Escape is the keyboard shortcut for Cancel.

Rationale: iMIS customers want disabled people to be able to use iMIS
Accessibility: NA
Internationalization: NA
Supporting Examples: None
Where Used: Everywhere

Items of Note:

Put to Use

Status: Placeholder

Adherence Rating: Required

Used in Conjunction with: None

Related Patterns: None

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Are these details correct?

On September 25th, 2007 John Mann says:

I thought accessibility was about supporting people who needed help in physically using a PC. I wrote about this here

http://www.imiscommunity.com/software_accessibility_links

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I believe this is a

On September 25th, 2007 Sara Hardison says:

I believe this is a placeholder pattern that Jim created that was based on the internationalization pattern.

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Wrong Page

On September 25th, 2007 Jim Sneeringer says:

I dropped the I18N page in here instead of the Accessibility page. Sorry.

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Testing for Accessibility

On November 20th, 2007 Sarah Hoddinott says:

I came across a great article in Tech Soup about how to test for accessibility and I thought I'd post it here.

 http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/access/page6087.cfm

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