1. ATI Overview Accessible IT 10 July 2007

2. Is My Information Technology (IT) Accessible? INACCESSIBLE IT A well written and researched PRINT BOOK (ink on paper) - Mathematical Statistics with Applications, W. Mendenhall, R. Scheafer, D. Wackerly ACCESSIBLE IT A well written and researched book in PROPER HTML - Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance: Jim Thatcher et. al. Chapter 1- Understanding Web Accessibility, Shawn Lawton Henery Chapter 1- Understanding Web Accessibility

3. Perceivable Can a user with a disability perceive the information technology effectively as is or with assistive technology? No Sight Print Book: No perception; HTML Book: Full perception with modal transformation HTML Book Partial Sight Print Book: No or limited perception, may be painful or nauseating HTML Book: Full perception through print and modal transformation HTML Book Dyslexia Print Book: No or limited perception: decoding distortions HTML Book: Full perception through print and modal transformation HTML Book

4. Operable Direct Lookup: Print Technologies: Table of Contents, Index, Page Numbers – right and unusable by many Proper HTML Technologies: : Site Maps, Links, Anchors – flexible and usable by almost everyone Proper HTML Manipulation: Print Technology: Without print disabilities - books are convenient and pleasurable. With print disabilities - books are hard work; Light, assistive technology, book and body defy comfort. Proper HTML : Proper HTML Levels the physical use field. Browsers, media players and assistive technologies are all user agents that read and proper HTML.

5. Understandable Tables in Books Without Print Disabilities Big picture pattern comprehension Depict 2-variable dependencies With Print Disabilities Big picture is lost in enlargement of print, line or column spacing 2-variable dependency is lost to poor tracking Tables in Proper HTMLProper HTML 2-variable dependence is quickly conveyed Required summaries can put big picture patterns into perceivable text. Efficient large scale sampling can simulate big picture viewing

6. Robust Print books are rigid. Only humans can read them. For unimpaired readers this exact structure gives: Excellent perception Comfortable and powerful operability Deep Comprehension Proper HTML is flexible enough for machines to read With assistive technology, readers with print disabilities Perceive the content Operate the medium effectively Understand the intended text

7. www.calstate.edu/accessibility