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Future Ideas Could Include

Remote Meetings

Rationale: After the pandemic, remote meetings are here to stay. Their inaccessibility can potentially exclude people with disabilities from participating in meetings, taking courses, and other activities.

Requirements to discuss:

• Ability to include human captions.
• Provision of automated captions for when human captions are not available.
• Ability to include sign languages.
• Ability to identify the current speaker.
• Ability to rearrange windows within the tool.
• Ability to toggle between standard and simplified view.
• Ability to test audio and video before joining a meeting.

References

• Accessibility of Remote Meetings

  • Creating accessible remote meeting software platforms

  • Relevance of the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines

Collaborative editing

Rationale: Collaborative editing tools are used more and more to create content. Inaccessibility of such tools can potentially exclude users from school, faculty, work, and other environments.

Requirements to discuss

• Ability to communicate the start and end of headings, links, lists, and annotations.
• Ability to read the document with and without annotations.
• Ability to move to the annotation and back to the document.
• Ability to select text and associate it to an annotation.

References

• Collaboration tool accessibility

Requirements to Discuss (archived)

These would be based on ATAG at a glance document, and will be adapted to the three proposed sectors.

• Make your tool's user interface accessible, including
  • web and non-web functionality
  • editing views
  • previews
  • automatically generated content
  • keyboard
• Provide features and guidance for producing accessible content, including for:
  • managing alternatives to non-text content
  • accessible templates
  • accessible pre-authored content
  • checking and repairing accessibility problems
  • documentation showing how to create accessible content
• Ensure accessibility information is preserved
• Make alternative content available for content authors
• Give authors enough time
• Avoid content that can cause seizures
• Support navigation and orientation in editing views through:
  • structure
  • programmatic relations
  • search functionality
• Help authors avoid and correct mistakes