Re: How, and to what extent, should I pursue audience-based exceptions for accessibility

Good afternoon, Ovilla,

These are indeed interesting use cases. Here are a few places you can ask for input:

* WAI Interest Group (IG) Discussion List <https://www.w3.org/WAI/IG/#mailinglist>

* Accessibility for Children Community Group < https://www.w3.org/community/accessibility4children/>

* Accessible Online Learning Community Group < https://www.w3.org/community/accesslearn/> (although I think they are not active right now)

Best,
~Shawn
<http://www.w3.org/People/Shawn/>


On 27-Oct-22 2:29 PM, Ovilla Turnbull wrote:
> Good Afternoon!
> 
> My question today is about whether there are exception procedures-or if you can make recommendations--on how to be compliant when the digital asset, by its nature, doesn't lend itself to /certain/ WCAG accommodations.
> 
> Among our clients and prospective clients are school districts requiring WCAG AA-level compliance. However, my company creates tools to teach students to read. We run into challenges with the student portal.
> 
> If our goal was to "check the accessibility boxes" for the student *portal, *we could create a user experience that contains videos of teachers teaching the lessons along with captions/transcripts, etc. But I am afraid that would not be helpful for any actual users.
> 
> We can and will make some changes to help students with low vision and/or who are hard of hearing to a certain extent, but I *assume* our methodology would not particularly help blind and/or deaf students.
> 
> Specifically, some examples of challenging use cases include:
> 
>     Ex. 1: A student who is blind would be more likely to learn to read Braile
> 
>     Ex. 2: If we caption audio that says, "Spell the word cat," we won't know if users actually knew how to spell it or if they copied it from the caption.
> 
>     Ex. 3: If we caption an activity that says, "Select the word that says span," they would, again, be able to use the captioning to answer the question.
> 
>     Ex. 4: A person learning to read (I assume) will struggle with using captions.
> 
> I am new to learning about accessibility, and I want to be sensitive and make all the useful changes that we can. I just don't want to make changes that are not going to help anyone in our attempt to reach WCAG Level AA certifications.
> 
> Do you have any advice or reference material you could share?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Ovilla Turnbull
> 
> Product Owner
> 
> Reading Horizons
> 
> Reading is for Everyone
> 
> Dir: 385-392-4238
>

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