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Digital Accessibility - WCAG and Section 508 (1)
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Digital Accessibility - WCAG and Section 508a11y - ANS-*a11y* is shorthand for "accessibility" as "a" followed by 11 more letters, followed by
"y"
Links MUST be visually distinguishable from
A) Buttons
B) Navigation elements
C) Surrounding text
D) A and C - ANS-Links MUST be visually distinguishable from
*C) Surrounding text*
The following key command will move to the next heading in JAWS, NVDA, or Narrator screen
readers for Windows.
A) Insert D
B) D
C) Shift H
D) H - ANS-The following key command will move to the next heading in JAWS, NVDA, or
Narrator screen readers for Windows.
*D) H*
Accessibility API - ANS-*Accessibility Application Program Interfaces (APIs)* are predefined and
documented for the purpose of interacting with a user interface. Examples are Windows UIA,
IAccessible2, MSAA.
Accessibility Insights for Android - ANS-*Accessibility Insights for Android* is a free, open
source tool that helps developers find and fix accessibility issues in Android apps. The tool runs
on Windows, Mac, and Linux. You can test apps on a hardware device or on an Android Virtual
Device.
Accessibility Insights for Web Accessibility - ANS-*Accessibility Insights for Web* is an
extension for Chrome and Microsoft Edge that helps developers find and fix accessibility issues
in web apps and sites.
Accessibility Insights for Windows - ANS-*Accessibility Insights for Windows* helps developers
find and fix accessibility issues in Windows apps. The tool supports three primary scenarios:
Live Inspect, FastPass, and Troubleshooting
,Important visual events:
A) MAY be described in the transcript
B) SHOULD be described in the transcript
C) MUST be described in the transcript
D) CANNOT be described in the transcript - ANS-Important visual events
C) *MUST* be described in the transcript
Important background sounds *MUST* be conveyed in transcripts.
True or False - ANS-*True*
Important background sounds *MUST* be conveyed in transcripts, preferably in [brackets] or
(parentheses)
Accessible Canada Act (ACA) - ANS-The *Accessible Canada Act (ACA)* is federal legislation
aimed at ending discrimination of people with disabilities by identifying, removing, and
preventing barriers to accessibility. The ACA applies to federal government departments,
agencies and federally regulated industries.
Accessible name - ANS-An *accessible name* is a short, descriptive text string that a screen
reader uses to announce a UI element.
Anti-Pattern - ANS-An *Anti-Pattern (or AntiPattern)* is a pattern that tells how to go from a
problem to a bad solution.
True or False
An aria-live assertive announcement will interrupt a screen reader that is already reading text,
and read the new aria-live announcement. The rest of the interrupted message will be lost. -
ANS-*True*
An aria-live assertive announcement will interrupt a screen reader that is already reading text,
and read the new aria-live announcement. The rest of the interrupted message will be lost.
True or False
An aria-live polite announcement reads announcements at 50% of the system volume. -
ANS-*False*
An aria-live polite announcement puts the new announcement in a queue. It will be read after
the screen reader is done reading the current messages in the queue.
, Assistive technology (AT) - ANS-*Assistive technology (AT)* is software and/or hardware that
acts as a user agent, or along with a mainstream user agent, to provide functionality to meet the
needs of users with disabilities that go beyond those offered by mainstream user agents.
ATAG - ANS-The *Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0* provides guidelines for
designing web content authoring tools that are both more accessible to authors with disabilities
and designed to enable, support, and promote the production of more accessible web content.
Boundary property - ANS-The *Boundary* property identifies the focus of a control.
Braille terminal - ANS-A *braille terminal* is a machine that converts text on a screen to braille
by raising bumps through holes on a flat surface.
CAPTCHA - ANS-*CAPTCHA* is an initialism for *Completely Automated Public Turing test to
tell Computers and Humans Apart*. Many forms of CAPTCHA make accessibility difficult for
users.
Captions - ANS-*Captions* are a textual representation of sounds--usually associated with
television programming or movies; captions are meant to display in real time and to capture
speech and sounds beyond speech in some cases.
Clickability cues - ANS-*Clickability cues* are a visual indication that a given word or item on a
web page is clickable. Cues that can be used to indicate the clickability of an item include color,
underlining, bullets, and arrows.
Cognitive load - ANS-*Cognitive load* refers to the amount of mental effort it takes to
understand something.
Conformance - ANS-*Conformance* means satisfying all the requirements of a given standard,
guideline or specification
ControlType property - ANS-The *ControlType* property provides information about how a user
can interact with a control.
Description property - ANS-The *Description property* describes a control and is sometimes
used by a screen reader or braille device. It is generally more verbose than the Name property.
Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Australia) - ANS-Australia's *Disability Discrimination Act* of
1992 mandates that all Australian government websites meet WCAG accessibility requirements.
EN 301 549 (European Union) - ANS-*EN 301 549* is the European accessibility standard that
covers all ICT (Information and Communication Technology). It covers public procurement of
ICT products and services in Europe. The part of EN 301 549 that covers the web adopts
WCAG version 2.1.
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