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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

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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

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Jim TobiasPEAT Strategic Partner & Subject Matter Expert

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Julia Bascom

Director of Programs, Autistic Self Advocacy Network

Your Session Chairs

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Logistics 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

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ASAN-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

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Richard CrespinCEO, CollaborateUpSenior Fellow, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Your Moderator

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Today’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

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Peter BlanckChairman, Syracuse University’s

Burton Blatt Burton Blatt InstituteAuthor, eQuality: The Struggle for Web Accessibility by People with Cognitive Disabilitieswww.PEATworks.org

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eQuality

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Lisa Seeman, Athena I.C.TFacilitator of the Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force (COGA) Under WCAG and PF

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COGAThe 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.

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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

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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

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Cognitive 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

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The Work Ahead of Us

All on our wiki

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What Might We End Up With?

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Example: 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

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User Needs Differ

Dyslexia or DyscalculiaAlzheimer's or Aphasia

Conclusion

– use text with the symbol

SAVE

SAVE

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Greg McGrew, MEBMEProduct Testing Lab Coordinator | Assistive Technology Partners Department of BioengineeringUniversity of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus

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Rehabilitation Engineering Research Centers on Technology for People with Cognitive DisabilitiesRERC-ACT (2009-2014)

Research ProjectsDevelopment ProjectsRERC-ATACI (2014-2019)Research ProjectsDevelopment Projectswww.PEATworks.org

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Usability 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

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Usability Testing

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Notable 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

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Future WorkUsability testing new and emerging technologiesSmartphones

TabletsWearablesSmarthome environmentswww.PEATworks.org23

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Google Glass(like)www.PEATworks.org

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Future 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

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Shea Tanis, Ph.DAssociate Director of ResearchColeman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities at the University of Colorado

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Cognitive Disability www.PEATworks.org

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Source:

Braddock, D., Coleman Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado,

2015.

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Number of Supported Employment Workers in the U.S. Declines 7% 2009-2013www.PEATworks.org

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Source:

Braddock, D., Coleman Institute and Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado,

2015.

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Changing 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

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Cognitively 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

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– Wehmeyer (2014)

Coleman Institute Cognitive Technology Database

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Employers & 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

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The 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

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Abstract

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

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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

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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

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Making Legislative Historywww.PEATworks.org

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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

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Contact Information

Shea Tanis, Ph.D. 3825 Iris Avenue, Suite 200Boulder, CO 80301303.492.0639Shea.tanis@cu.eduwww.colemaninstitute.orgwww.stateofthestates.org

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QUESTIONS? www.PEATworks.org

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Thank You.info@PEATworks.orghttp://PEATworks.org

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