(unknown charset) Re: For you: A webpage that is 100% accessible to all people around the world, regardless of nationality or disability or Assistive Technology

apparently only if using windows

Bob


On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, Katherine Mancuso wrote:

> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 14:06:06 -0700
> From: Katherine Mancuso <kmancuso@gmail.com>
> To: Judy Okite <judyokite@gmail.com>
> Cc: Bryan Garaventa <bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com>,
>     Mark Sadecki <mark@sadecki.com>, WAI Interest Group <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: For you: A webpage that is 100% accessible to all people around 
>     the world, regardless of nationality or disability or Assistive Technology
> Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:06:54 +0000
> Resent-From: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> 
> Functioning as expected. You'll want to "view source" of the page you get.
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Judy Okite <judyokite@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> the website is not opening on my end, please...
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> *'Chance Favors the prepared mind'* - Louis Pasteur
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 11:19 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
>> bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, woops…
>>>
>>> You are welcome to add that one in J
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *From:* mark.sadecki@gmail.com [mailto:mark.sadecki@gmail.com] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Mark Sadecki
>>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 14, 2014 1:18 PM
>>> *To:* Bryan Garaventa
>>> *Cc:* w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
>>> *Subject:* Re: For you: A webpage that is 100% accessible to all people
>>> around the world, regardless of nationality or disability or Assistive
>>> Technology
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bryan,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This can’t be right.  At no point have you even considered the
>>> reradicating, octally repeating, sesquidecimated equinox factor.  Once
>>> considered, the accessibility percentage should round nicely to 97.82.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Bryan Garaventa <
>>> bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Recently, somebody asked me to show them a website that was 100%
>>> accessible, so I figured it would make a good experiment. Sort of a thought
>>> experiment I guess...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So I built a webpage that is 100% accessible to all people in the world
>>> equally, regardless of nationality, disability type, or Assistive
>>> Technology used.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Enjoy! It's available at
>>>
>>> http://whatsock.com/test/100_percent_accessible.htm
>>>
>>> Happy testing.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With this 100% accessible baseline to start from, the accessibility
>>> percentage for all web technologies everywhere, scales downward to account
>>> for requisite variables, so that no web technology anywhere can be 100%
>>> accessible as a result.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> To demonstrate this, I also wrote the following algorithm, that
>>> calculates the general percentage of accessibility for any given web
>>> technology.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> X = (1 * Disability-Type * Browser-AT * Site-Interactivity *
>>> Site-Complexity * User-Experience)
>>>
>>> P = (Hardware * ((((1 * OS-AT) - X) * Accessibility-Level) + X)) * 100
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> P is the general Percentage of accessibility calculated for a particular
>>> website or web technology feature, which is based on the following
>>> estimated values for each variable in the formula.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Disability-Type
>>>
>>> 0.01: Deaf-Blind + Motor-Impaired
>>>
>>> 0.1: Deaf-Blind
>>>
>>> 0.2: Deaf + Motor-Impaired
>>>
>>> 0.3: Blind + Motor-Impaired
>>>
>>> 0.4: Partially Sighted + Motor-Impaired
>>>
>>> 0.5: Motor-Impaired
>>>
>>> 0.6: Blind
>>>
>>> 0.7: Deaf + Partially Sighted
>>>
>>> 0.8: Partially Sighted
>>>
>>> 0.9: Deaf
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Browser-AT
>>>
>>> 1: No AT
>>>
>>> 0.98: Internet Explorer + JAWS
>>>
>>> 0.93: Internet Explorer + NVDA
>>>
>>> 0.95: Firefox + JAWS
>>>
>>> 0.98: Firefox + NVDA
>>>
>>> 0.95: Safari + VoiceOver
>>>
>>> 0.6: Chrome + JAWS
>>>
>>> 0.7: Chrome + NVDA
>>>
>>> 0.95: Internet Explorer or Firefox or Chrome + Dragon
>>>
>>> 0.98: Internet Explorer or Firefox or Chrome + ZoomText
>>>
>>> 0.9: Internet Explorer or Firefox or Chrome or Safari + Braille Display
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Site-Interactivity
>>>
>>> 1: Contains All Static Elements
>>>
>>> 0.9: Contains Interactive Features
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Site-Complexity
>>>
>>> 1: Simple
>>>
>>> 0.95: Medium
>>>
>>> 0.9: Complex
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> User-Experience
>>>
>>> 1: Advanced
>>>
>>> 0.95: Intermediate
>>>
>>> 0.9: Beginner
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hardware
>>>
>>> 0: None
>>>
>>> 1: Computer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> OS-AT
>>>
>>> 0.001: No AT
>>>
>>> 0.99: Windows + JAWS
>>>
>>> 0.99: Windows + NVDA
>>>
>>> 0.99: Windows + Dragon
>>>
>>> 0.99: Windows + ZoomText
>>>
>>> 0.99: iOS + VoiceOver
>>>
>>> 0.99: OS X + VoiceOver
>>>
>>> 0.9: Windows or iOS or OS X + Braille Display
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Accessibility-Level
>>>
>>> 0.98: Fully Keyboard Accessible + ARIA Standards Compliant (when
>>> applicable) + WCAG Compliant
>>>
>>> 0.3: Fully Keyboard Accessible + ARIA Standards Compliant (when
>>> applicable) but not WCAG Compliant
>>>
>>> 0.3: Fully Keyboard Accessible but not ARIA Standards Compliant (when
>>> applicable) + WCAG Compliant
>>>
>>> 0.2: Fully Keyboard Accessible but not ARIA Standards Compliant (when
>>> applicable) nor WCAG Compliant
>>>
>>> 0.1: ARIA Standards Compliant (when applicable) but not Fully Keyboard
>>> Accessible nor WCAG Compliant
>>>
>>> 0.01: Neither Fully Keyboard Accessible nor ARIA Standards Compliant
>>> (when applicable) nor WCAG Compliant
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (More constants can always be added or adjusted)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For example:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> (1 * .6 * .95 * .9 * .9 * .9) = 0.41553
>>>
>>> (1 * ((((1 * 0.99) - 0.41553) * .98) + 0.41553)) * 100 = 97.85106
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> So roughly calculated, a Blind person(.6) using Safari+VoiceOver(.95)
>>> accessing a website that Contains Interactive Features(.9) that is
>>> Complex(.9) when the user is a Beginner(.9),
>>>
>>> in combination with Hardware(1) that includes iOS+VoiceOver(.99), upon a
>>> website that is
>>>
>>> Fully Keyboard Accessible + ARIA Standards Compliant (when applicable) +
>>> WCAG Compliant(.98), will have a general accessibility Percentage of 97.8.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Like I said, these are just estimates, but I thought it would make an
>>> interesting experiment.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Best wishes,
>>>
>>> Bryan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

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