Presenters ▌2012: Started my career as a programmer ▌2014: Saw the usability test for people with low vision ▌2018: Became Accessibility expert Daisuke Kobayashi Accessibility Expert Cybozu,inc
▌Especially in Japan, it is difficult to promote web accessibility. ▌The current situation in Japan. Topic 1/3 The difficulty of promoting web accessibility
Ways to promote web accessibility Let's try to empathize with people with disabilities and the elderly. Letʼs make it compatible with every kind of devices!
Law of web accessibility in Japan ▌Act for Eliminating Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities ▌Enforced in April 2016. https://www8.cao.go.jp/shougai/suishin/law_h25-65.html
▌Must make websites accessible. ▌Some institutions don't make websites accessible. ▌They are not follow JIS-X 8341-3. ▌There has never been any single lawsuits. Legal binding force is very weak… Public institution
▌There is NO penalty. ▌Only an obligation to make best efforts. ▌There has never been any single lawsuits. Legal binding force is very weak… Private enterprise
The Difficulty of promoting web accessibility Most of the members on the team are not corporative. Accessibility has not even incorporated into dev process. People do not value the importance of accessibility.
Programmer QA Engineer Designer Product Manager Accessibility! When I first started trying to promote accessibility • Members were not aware of how important accessibility is. • Some people had even never heard of the word “accessibility”.
▌An Introduction of screen reader ▌How our competitors face with the accessibility ▌Relationship between web accessibility and our vision I posted many blogs
▌Accessibible Coding & Accessible Design ▌How to check accessibility ▌How to use screen readers ▌simple web accessibility autits ▌... We provided many accessibility training
A lot of members started to have an empathy “It really made me want to find what I can do for letting everyone on a planet earth access to their team”. 「世界中の⼈がチームにアクセスできるように ⾃分ができること」をこれから⾒ つけていきたいと⼼から思いました︕ Voice from workshop
A lot of members started to have an empathy “I think the idea that users are not accessing our software, they are accessing their teams is something we should never forget.” 「グループウェアにアクセスするのが⽬的ではなく、「すべてのユーザ」がチーム にアクセスすることが⽬的であるという考え⽅は、絶対に忘れないようにした いと感じました。」 Voice from workshop
Programmer QA Engineer Designer Product Manager Accessibility! We became one team Accessibility! Accessibility! Some members actively helped us promote accessibility
Find problems in an earlier stage at lower costs Check the problems at every step in dev process Design Testing Requirement Definition Implementing Because many team members understand the value of accessibility
Accessibility is regarded as an important value https://garoon.cybozu.co.jp/support/design/ 3 design concepts Accessibility has become one of the concepts when renewing the product.
Importance of Organizational Vision More and more team members become corporative Accessibility can be considered by everyone as an important process in the development flow. Accessibility regards one of the most important values for everyone.
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