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

Happy to help :)

To clarify for everybody though, the page I posted is intended to be blank,
with no textual content or visual display at all. This represents a 100%
accessible page that is equally accessible to all people equally regardless
of disability. That may seem like a joke, but this is actually true.

As soon as you add any textual content or active elements or visual display
to a blank page, you present unavoidable accessibility issues for somebody,
regardless how careful you are about making it accessible. This is why I
wrote the accessibility algorithm, to prove how this works.

So, it is sort of funny, but it is also totally true.



-----Original Message-----
From: SALES, TERRY LYNN [mailto:TERRYLYNN.SALES@cbp.dhs.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 3:07 PM
To: 'bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com'; 'deborah.kaplan@suberic.net';
'accessys@smart.net'
Cc: 'kmancuso@gmail.com'; 'judyokite@gmail.com'; 'mark@sadecki.com';
'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, I very much enjoyed and needed the chuckle this evening!  Thank you!

----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Garaventa [mailto:bryan.garaventa@whatsock.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 05:36 PM Eastern Standard Time
To: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net <deborah.kaplan@suberic.net>;
accessys@smart.net <accessys@smart.net>
Cc: 'Katherine Mancuso' <kmancuso@gmail.com>; 'Judy Okite'
<judyokite@gmail.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

When I was a kid, my dad used to ask me 'how do you keep a turkey in
suspense?', which used to annoy me a lot.

I never did find out the answer...

-----Original Message-----
From: deborah.kaplan@suberic.net [mailto:deborah.kaplan@suberic.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2014 2:35 PM
To: accessys@smart.net
Cc: Katherine Mancuso; Judy Okite; Bryan Garaventa; Mark Sadecki; WAI
Interest Group
Subject: Re: For you: A webpage that is 100% accessible to all people around
the world, regardless of nationality or disability or Assistive Technology

The page is basically a joke, playing on the idea that there is no such
thing as a 100% accessible page; it's blank, with empty HTML source. Given
how many people in the community are viewing on mobile -- or are using
screen readers and are used to theoretically accessible pages that report
nothing back to them -- it's worth being more explicit about why you can't
access the page. :)

Deborah Kaplan


On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, accessys@smart.net wrote:

>
> 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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