Bouton Jones talks about “ColdFusion Practical Digital Accessibility (revealing 3 you didn’t know)”, in this episode of ColdFusion Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light. This will address the compelling reasons -- including legal -- for applying Accessibility to digital documentation: Word, PDF, PowerPoint, and Web.  Examples of poor Accessibility will be presented with illustrations of the resulting effects for users with disabilities.   Finally, it will cover strategies and solutions.

Show notes

What does Accessibility mean?

Part of usability for people with disabilities

Blind

Dead

Color blind

Mouse

Epileptic

Autistic

ESL (English as Second Language)

Delexic  

A11y =

How did you get interested in Accessibility?

How is your talk at CF Summit going to be different from all the other Accessibility presos we might have seen?

Why is Accessibility so important today?

20% of Americans have disabilities of one kind or another

508 compliance ← US govt websites

Moral requirement

Legal requirement

It is just Practical

W3C guidelines

What can you do to make your ColdFusion apps Accessible?

HTML

Semantic HTML

Text choice

Navigation

Without a mouse

Graphics

Image Alt tag tips

Skip links

Pop ups

JAWS, NVDA and ChromeVox testing

Flash

RIAs

Captcha

What about other files in your app?

Word and PDF documentation, Presentations, Email, Social media

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CF Summit?

Bouton’s full notes and slides 

Complete Video Playlist

Mentioned in this episode

W3C guidelines

JAWS, NDVA and ChromeVox  screen readers

Semantic HTML

Google Recaptcha

1. "ColdFusion and Section 508" by Jon Brundage and Michaela Light

2. "Generating Speech with ColdFusion and Java" by Raymond Camden

3. "Everyone’s invited! Meet Accessibility Requirements with ColdFusion" by Steve Shinney at the Adobe ColdFusion Summit 2016

Nielsen Norman article on simple language is better

Selling ColdFusion ROI episode

Videos

How ARIA landmark roles help screen reader users by Léonie Watson with Nomensa

Think Accessibility: SXSW 2017 Capital One Event with Mike Paciello, Founder and CEO of The Paciello Group, and Sarah Goelitz, UX Content Strategist at Capital One. Produced by AccessibleMedia. Published on Mar 14, 2017.

Make Technology Work for Everyone: introducing digital accessibility (UK) - 4:41

Making a PDF accessible with Acrobat Pro DC - 3:12

What is Accessibility? [CC] - 5:46

Web Accessibility for people with Disabilities - 1:59

Keeping Web Accessibility In Mind - 11:34

A Personal Look at Accessibility in Higher Education - 5:58

Fiverr cartoon images

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Bio

Bouton Jones

Business Systems Analyst with over ten years’ experience as a ColdFusion contractor and consultant.  Currently living in Austin, Texas after over a decade on the road.

Links

www.BoutonJones.com

Interview transcript

Michael:          Welcome back to the show. We're going to be talking about ColdFusion practical digital accessibility with Bouton Jones. I think I just made a meal of your name there. Not the Jones.

Bouton:           Bouton

Michael:          Bouton, yes. I practiced it three times before we hit record, but still much screwed up.

Bouton:           [Crosstalk] [00:18] variation.

Michael:          Well that's good. So we're going to be looking at what accessibility actually means, and a lot of those things you may not have thought of before. And also, we're going to look at how this presentation you're giving at C.F. Summit on practical digital accessibility is different from other accessibility talks people may have seen before. And there’s some interesting stuff there I just been talking with you about it,