Accessibility:

A Year in Review

— by Rhiana Heppenstall, A11y Lead

3p Learning
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hands up asking about accessibility

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October '24

accessibility

Process

Audits and Reporting

1.

Implementation and Support

2.

Future directions and goals

3.

Audits and Reporting

1.

Official WCAG reports.

Tickets and docs for various team

2.

Pick up
"low hanging fruit" and Level A tasks

3.

Training QA, developers and designers on their role

5.

Work on Level AA tasks.

Update WCAG Reports.

4.

Re-review cycles as improvements get released

6.

Improve on other areas of the business including new work

How?

Who?

NSW and various USA states

DoE

Companies

Requests and complaints

Customer

NSW government education

e.g. Stride

Stride education
4.3 star rating in google reviews

VPAT
(Voluntary Product Accessibility Template)

508 Report

 AS EN 301 549 202

What?

WCAG

((Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)

Scooby do meme unmasking the real villlan. Let's see who you really are 508, VCAT and ASEN 301 549:2020. It was WCAG all along!

Strengths

  • Intuitive UX
  • Voice actors
  • "Gamifying" learning

Issues

  • No video captions
  • Canvas & HTML issues
  • Some issues with colour and mobile UX

Where?

〞

Can Canvas be accessible??

– Everyone

But Why?

Accessible sites are boring

We just don't have the time/money

Implementation and Support

1.

Official WCAG reports.

Tickets and docs for various team

2.

Pick up
"low hanging fruit" and Level A tasks

3.

Training QA, developers and designers on their role

5.

Work on Level AA tasks.

Update WCAG Reports.

4.

Re-review cycles as improvements get released

6.

Improve on other areas of the business including new work

How?

Support

Documentation

#1

Slack

#2

Training

#3

Meetings

#4

Marketing

#5

Implementation!

readingeggs quiz showing a question and 4 multiple choice answers

Old Designs

readingeggs quiz showing a question and 4 multiple choice answers

New Designs

Old Designs

reading express my progress page currently

New Designs

reading express my progress page new design
parent website showing setting for a child including the ability to toggle background music

Background Music Toggle

Mathletics dashboard page
Mathletics
Writing legends dashboard page
writing legends complete the sentence activity
Writing legends perfect punctuation activity
reading express dashboard page
Reading eggs
Readingeggs video player showing captions and controls
Reading eggs
Readingeggs acticity showing the top bar with tracking and audio control button
Reading eggs
Readingeggs acticity showing the top bar with tracking and audio control button
Reading eggs
Bright path progress
axe the accessibiliy engine

Future directions and goals

1.

Official WCAG reports.

Tickets and docs for various team

2.

Picked up
"low hanging fruit" and Level A tasks

3.

Training QA, developers and designers on their role

5.

Work on Level AA tasks.

Update WCAG Reports.

4.

Re-review cycles as improvements get released

6.

Improve on other areas of the business including new work

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Internal

Writers

Design

HTML/CSS

JS

BE

Ops

QA

Content

  • 100% Voluntary
  • Mentorship
  • Bonus training
  • 20% time on improving accessibility

Champions Program

Linked In
  • Third party assessors
  • User testing groups including people with disabilities
  • Adding to procurement process

External

Woody and buzz meme. Accessibility. Accessible everywhere

THANK YOU

Any questions?

#accessibility

accessibility@3plearning.com

Rhiana Heppenstall