Have a link for accessibility usage of this page

Have a link for accessibility usage of this page
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 Jul 15 2016
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Would love to see accessibility link to show how users' can access this content with out the usage of a mouse for disabled user's who rely on a keyboard only. 

 

Provide keyboard accessibility solutions for access different portions of the new portal. 

 

 

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Former Employee

This is really great feedback, @Christopher McMillan. Thank you!

Former Employee
Status changed to: Planned
 
Community Manager

Hi all,

I wonder if you could let us know how accessibility is currently? We are about to undertake an accessibility audit to identify our shortfalls and as such would be great if you could share your current experience. 

Brass Contributor

Good morning Allen let me take a look at the site again with all of my commercial screen reading tools for blind and low-vision technology and I will let you know this week. 

 

 if there's anything specific you would like me to take a look at it please let me know

Community Manager

Chris,

 

I think focusing on area's of content we provide and general site navigation would we helpful. There isnt much we can do about the accessibility of content provided by community members, beyond providing guidance.

 

Also if you would rather PM me your results then feel free to do so. 

Brass Contributor

Good Morning Allen:

 

I will be auditing the sight for accessibility based on WCAG 2.0 AA Standards for Web Based Application. 

 

Your dev team is going to need to become very familiar with the following standards. 

 

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#contents

 

I will be looking at the portal for the low vision and blind user to access this app.  I will be creating a summary of the issues in Word where these issues are broken.  I will not document all repeated issues but the critical elements that are broken, if they are based on the standards above. 

 

Christopher McMillan

@CEEKTechnology

MSPartner for Accessibility

WCAG 2.0 AA Auditor

 

 

Community Manager

@Christopher McMillan

 

Thank you for your feedback. Our team are already undertaking some work to improve the accessibility of the site. Microsoft takes making our content accessible to all customers very seriously and so as a company we have been reviewing all our estates to try to understand where we fall short.

 

What I am asking of you though is if you wouldn't mind sharing if there are area's you are having issues with specifically. You can either post here or email using the email link on the homepage. 

 

Thanks again

Community Manager
Status changed to: Working on it
 
Community Manager
Status changed to: Under Review

@Christopher McMillan ,

 

We are currently looking to do a full accessibility review of the site and this feedback will be looking into as part of that. 

Community Manager
Status changed to: Planned
 
Community Manager
Status changed to: New Idea
 
Community Manager
Status changed to: Planned
 
Community Manager

Thank you for submitting this @Christopher McMillan . Accessibility is very important to us. We are currently performing  a full accessibility review of the site  and will keep you updated on future changes. 

Community Manager
Status changed to: Completed
 
Gold Contributor

      Hi  @Allen 

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Sorry, but I didn't find the accessibility link?

What are these facilitations?

Please explain, I use high contrast and I would like to know how someone with less sight has facilities on the MTC website.

Community Manager

Oh Sorry I misunderstood the original ask, I thought the original ask was to have accessible links that help people navigate the site when using a keyboard.

 

We don't have a link that talks about how to accessibility access areas of the Microsoft Tech Community at this time. We are using and testing against WCAG 2.1 standards at the moment and so many of the things we support are 'standard'.

 

For high contrast visitors etc we respect the browsers settings, at least for content we own. We have less ability to control content created by customers.

 

I will re-open this idea as under review, we currently have no plans to post a specific 'accessibility guide' but we will consider this for the future, especially when the new UI is ready early next year as that should remove the last accessibility bugs we can't fix in the core product.

Community Manager
Status changed to: Under Review
 
Gold Contributor

 @Allen   

Thank you!  Microsoft currently has great products to help people like Narrator, Magnifier, and the ability to read aloud (it really helps)

We are all slowly losing our sight so everyone can have a problem - It is worth remembering.

WCAG 2 Overview | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C

WCAG 2.1 at a Glance | Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) | W3C

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1.4.6 Contrast (Enhanced)Level AAA
The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio of at least 7:1, except for the following:

Large Text: Large-scale text and images of large-scale text have a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1;

Incidental: Text or images of text that are part of an inactive user interface component, that are pure decoration, that are not visible to anyone, or that are part of a picture that contains significant other visual content, have no contrast requirement.

Logotypes: Text that is part of a logo or brand name has no contrast requirement. "