Behind The Curtain: Talking to Vendors About Accessibility

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1. A Vendor Tells You All About How To Ask About Accessibility
2. "How can I get there?" asked Dorothy. "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick," said the Witch, "so you cannot miss it. When you get to Oz do not be afraid of him, but tell your story and ask him to help you. Good-bye, my dear."
3.  An Accessibility Hierarchy Of Needs  How To Get From Here To Accessibility  5 Questions To Ask Vendors  4 Things You Can Do To Learn About A Product  3 Ways To Give Your Story A Happy Ending
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7. How To Get From Here To Accessibility
9. Surviving getting blown away by the cyclone of accessibility
12. HOW
13. 5 Questions To Ask Vendors About Their Accessibility
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19. 4 Things To Do Yourself To Learn About A Product’s Accessibility
20. Search! Look at the web, FB, Twitter etc. Look at what other people say about the brand’s and the product’s accessibility integrated culture lifecycle engineering checklist compliance perceivable content
21. integrated culture lifecycle engineering checklist compliance perceivable content Read their Accessibility Policy Read the VPAT  Supports – Does Not Support – Supports with Exceptions  Look for detailed remarks  Not Supported Doesn’t Mean Bad  This is voluntary and they are owning the issue – that’s a good thing
22. integrated culture lifecycle engineering checklist compliance perceivable content  Take a look at the product for yourself!  Use a screen reader: JAWS, NVDA  Web tools: Fangs, WAVE, FAE  http://sean.ly/a11ytools  Check the vendor’s website with these tools
23.  Get out of the building and talk to people  Have your users use the product  Ask them “What problems are you trying to solve?”  Ask them “What are your current pain points?” integrated culture lifecycle engineering checklist compliance perceivable content
24. 3 Ways To Give Your Accessibility Story A Happy Ending
29. Hadi Rangin How to talk and discuss about accessibility with vendors? http://j.mp/1mgwwqW Carin Headrick @vccarin
30. Sean Yo @seanyo me@seanyo.ca http://seanyo.ca Get The Slides! sean.ly/behindTheCurtain