To Be Accessible Addressing the Workplace Technology Needs of Users with Cognitive Disabilities December 11 2014 200 330 pm EST www PEAT worksorg Jim Tobias PEAT Strategic Partner amp Subject Matter Expert ID: 794835
Download The PPT/PDF document "Expanding What It Means" is the property of its rightful owner. Permission is granted to download and print the materials on this web site for personal, non-commercial use only, and to display it on your personal computer provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright notices contained in the materials. By downloading content from our website, you accept the terms of this agreement.
Slide1
Expanding What It Means To Be Accessible: Addressing the Workplace Technology Needs of Users with Cognitive Disabilities
December 11, 20142:00 – 3:30 p.m. EST
www.
PEAT
works.org
Slide2Jim TobiasPEAT Strategic Partner & Subject Matter Expert
www.PEATworks.org2
Julia Bascom
Director of Programs, Autistic Self Advocacy Network
Your Session Chairs
Slide3Logistics Audio is also available over a phone
line: Dial in number: 1-866-365-3921Conference code: 7247886139#Submit questions at any time during the presentation:
Type directly into the Q&A window your screen
Email
info@PEATworks.org
Tweet @PEATworks
Captioning is available at
: http://bit.ly/1zK2oet
www.PEATworks.org
3
Slide4ASAN-PEAT CollaborationASAN-PEAT online national dialogue hosted in 2013: “Join the Conversation: Improving the Accessibility of Online Tools for Workers with Intellectual Disabilities”
Report on data from the dialogue that reviews common themes and suggests potential next steps for research, policy, and programmingwww.PEATworks.org
4
Slide5www.PEATworks.org5
Richard CrespinCEO, CollaborateUpSenior Fellow, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Your Moderator
Slide6Today’s PanelistsPeter Blanck
, Chairman, Syracuse University’s Burton Blatt Institute and author of e:Quality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by People with Cognitive DisabilitiesLisa Seeman, Facilitator of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA) Under WCAG and PF Greg
McGrew
, Product Testing Lab Coordinator
, Assistive
Technology Partners (ATP), University of Colorado-Denver
Emily
Shea Tanis, Associate Director of Research, University of Colorado Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilitieswww.PEATworks.org
6
Slide7Peter BlanckChairman, Syracuse University’s
Burton Blatt Burton Blatt InstituteAuthor, eQuality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by People with Cognitive Disabilitieswww.PEATworks.org
7
Slide8eQuality
www.PEATworks.org8
Slide9Lisa Seeman, Athena I.C.TFacilitator of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA) Under WCAG and PF
www.PEATworks.org9
Slide10COGAThe Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force is a task force of the Protocols and Formats Working Group (PFWG) and
the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group Aim: To improve web accessibility for people with cognitive and learning disabilities This will begin with research and gap analysis.The group will develop draft proposed guidance and techniques to make web content, content authoring, and user agent implementation accessible and more useable by people with cognitive and learning
disabilities.
It w
ill also
review existing techniques, consider ways to improve them, and build new techniques where
necessary.
www.PEATworks.org
10
Slide11www.PEATworks.org11
Conditions that impact a person’s ability to use a website include:
Memory
Dyslexia – visual or auditory
Dementia – short term and working memory
R
eading
text
Problem
solving
Keeping
focused (attention span)
Computation
(for example calculations)
Cognitive Disabilities
Slide12www.PEATworks.org12
The
largest group of disabilities are people with cognitive disabilities
Meanwhile
, many systems have become more and more complex
Web applications
TV interfaces, heating
Phone systems
Cognitive Disabilities
Slide13Cognitive DisabilitiesSome advantages of Neuro-Diversity in the workplace; Out-of-the Box thinking:
Study of 102 entrepreneurs in the U.S. showing that 35% identified themselves as dyslexic (http://buswk.co/1yDG1FC) Genetic link between a dopamine receptor gene variation associated with ADHD and the tendency to be an entrepreneur (http://bit.ly/1x5Vvqc)Strong points are often stronger
Experience of the aging community
Understand your market
www.
PEAT
works.org
13
Slide14The Work Ahead of Us
All on our wiki
www.
PEAT
works.org
Slide15What Might We End Up With?
www.PEAT
works.org
Slide16Example: Separate Form & Content
Chapter 1 introduction to accessibility1.2 Accessibility and CSS
Tools
:before for symbols
Colors for heading levels
Key points
Clear structure in mark up via heading levels
Easier to follow
www.
PEAT
works.org
Slide17User Needs Differ
Dyslexia or DyscalculiaAlzheimer's or Aphasia
Conclusion
– use text with the symbol
SAVE
SAVE
www.
PEAT
works.org
Slide18Greg McGrew, MEBMEProduct Testing Lab Coordinator | Assistive Technology Partners Department of BioengineeringUniversity of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus
www.PEATworks.org18
Slide19Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers on Technology for People with Cognitive DisabilitiesRERC-ACT (2009-2014)
Research ProjectsDevelopment ProjectsRERC-ATACI (2014-2019)Research ProjectsDevelopment Projectswww.PEATworks.org
19
Slide20Usability Testing50 products used by people with cognitive disabilitiesMix of AT and general consumer productsOpen box usability testing of basic entry-level product functions
Tested with people with mild to moderate cognitive disabilitieswww.PEATworks.org20
Slide21Usability Testing
www.PEATworks.org21
Slide22Notable IssuesProcess issuesRecruitmentUse of standard measuresParticipants’ interest in pleasing
Product design issuesToo many input options impede user successUsers like products that talk to themTouch screens are not ideal input mediumswww.PEATworks.org
22
Slide23Future WorkUsability testing new and emerging technologiesSmartphones
TabletsWearablesSmarthome environmentswww.PEATworks.org23
Slide24Google Glass(like)www.PEATworks.org
24
Slide25Future WorkInvestigation of touch screen UI designsAmong current input element designs (buttons, layouts), which inhibit and which enhance success in product use for people with cognitive disabilities?
Inform development of standards for products used by people with cognitive disabilitieswww.PEATworks.org25
Slide26Shea Tanis, Ph.DAssociate Director of ResearchColeman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities at the University of Colorado
www.PEATworks.org26
Slide27Cognitive Disability www.PEATworks.org
27
Source:
Braddock, D., Coleman Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado,
2015.
Slide28Number of Supported Employment Workers in the U.S. Declines 7% 2009-2013www.PEATworks.org
28
Source:
Braddock, D., Coleman Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado,
2015.
Slide29Changing the Culture: Person to Environment Fit
Disability is a natural part of the human experienceTechnology becomes a critical support to enhance functioning and improve the person to environment fitWell matched technology can reduce and even eliminate functional limitationsCognitively accessible technologieswww.PEATworks.org
29
Slide30Cognitively Accessible TechnologiesCognitive Accessibility:
“Environments, technology, and materials that are cognitively accessible are those that incorporate design features to ensure that people with limitations in cognitive abilities--including language ability and auditory reception, reasoning and idea production, memory and learning, visual perception, cognitive speed, and knowledge and achievement—are able to access those environments and use the technology and materials
.”
– Wehmeyer (2014)
Coleman Institute Cognitive Technology Database
www.
PEAT
works.org
30
Slide31Employers & Technology ProvidersEmbrace the person to environment fit modelExplore cognitively accessible technologies
Employ people with cognitive disabilitiesDevelop user centered product and service designBuild partnershipsMeaningfully integrate principles of technology and information accesswww.PEATworks.org
31
Slide32The Rights of People With Cognitive Disabilities to
Technology and Information
Access
David Braddock, Jeffery Hoehl, Shea Tanis,
Enid
Ablowitz, and Laura Haff
er
Rights of People with Cognitive Disabilities to Technology and Information Access
206
Slide33Abstract
Information and communication technologies are ubiquitous and valuable tools for
billions of
people worldwide today. Yet people with
cognitive disabilities
, particularly
individuals with
intellectual and developmental disabilities, have quite limited access to
such technologies
.
This article presents the case for mounting significant efforts to advance the rights of millions of people with cognitive disabilities to technology and information access. A formal statement of these rights is presented, formulated by professionals and consumers representing a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The statement is currently endorsed by
190
national, state and local organizations in the developmental disabilities field in the United States.
Rights of People with Cognitive Disabilities to Technology and Information Access
Slide34Making Legislative Historywww.PEATworks.org
34
March 3, 2014
Colorado House and Senate
unanimously pass
a Joint Resolution on
The Rights of People with Cognitive Disabilities to Technology and Information Access
Sample of Endorsing Organizations
: ASAN, AAIDD, The Arc, ANCOR, CCD, SABE, NADD, ATAP, Autism Society of America, APSE,
AUCD,
Burton Blatt Institute; several State DD Councils, RESNA, Council on Quality and Leadership,
Institute for Matching Person and
Technology, Lutheran Services in America Disability Network, Harvard Law School Project on Disability, etc.
Endorse the Declaration at
http://
www.colemaninstitute.org/declaration
Contact Information
Shea Tanis, Ph.D. 3825 Iris Avenue, Suite 200Boulder, CO 80301303.492.0639Shea.tanis@cu.eduwww.colemaninstitute.orgwww.stateofthestates.org
www.
PEAT
works.org
35
Slide36QUESTIONS? www.PEATworks.org
36
Slide37Thank You.info@PEATworks.orghttp://PEATworks.org
www.PEATworks.org37