© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Web & Mobile App Accessibility with Adobe Tools Kiran Kaja | Accessibility Program Manager

© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Web Content Accessibility  Web content and multimedia must be:  Perceived, operated, and understood by users with disabilities  Support use with assistive technology  There is no magic make accessible button  Accessible content creation is a process  Achieving accessibility requires manual inspection in addition to automated checking  Accessibility should be part of development lifecycle  Start at beginning whenever possible  Designers and developers need to use a variety of techniques and methods  Many sufficient techniques and known failures

© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Inaccessible Website Examples  Travel booking websites typically top the list  Bus timetables  British Airways seat selection  Dominos UK new website  Continuing problems with Audible  Indicate systemic failure of incorporating accessibility requirements in all stages of development

© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)  Enterprise level Content Management Platform  Deliver content digitally on desktop and mobile devices  Create web sites, apps, forms and communities  Ability to create accessible web content conforming to WCAG 2.0 AA  More info: ng-accessibility.html

© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Mobile App Accessibility  Most accessibility requirements remain same across web and mobile apps  Additionally  Test with native accessibility features: VoiceOver, Talkback, Zoom, etc  Use native UI components as much as possible  Check that accessibility gestures work with your app  Touch target sizes need to be big enough  Provide alternatives for any custom gestures in your app

© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. App Examples  The Guardian news app on iOS  Accessibility support broken in new version  Old version was very accessible  Travel apps  British Airways again  Tripadvisor  Foursquare

© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. What is PhoneGap  PhoneGap makes native mobile apps using HTML, CSS and JavaScript  Supported platforms: iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone 8, Windows 8  New platforms: Tizen, Qt, Firefox OS, Ubuntu Mobile, Win32  Build apps locally with your own SDKs, or in the cloud with PhoneGap Build  Plugins for device native features (alarms, alerts, LEDs, etc.)  Over 400,000 developers use PhoneGap  Tens of thousands of PhoneGap apps are in app stores

© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Accessible Apps with PhoneGap  PhoneGap supports (most of) what mobile browsers already do  basic HTML accessibility  some ARIA support  touch navigation  screen reader/magnifier support  General web accessibility rules still apply  Plugin to detect status of native accessibility features  isScreenReaderRunning()  isClosedCaptioningEnabled()  …  More info:

© 2011 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 9 Resources  Adobe Accessibility Resource Center adobe.com/accessibility adobe.com/accessibility  Adobe Accessibility Blog blogs.adobe.com/accessibility blogs.adobe.com/accessibility

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