Hi everyone, I spent some time perusing the web staff client with three volunteers from our GLASS (Georgia Library for Accessible Statewide Services) department last week and discovered some areas that need work in order to meet ADA Section 508 requirements. One staff volunteer uses glasses with an attached monocular and a large screen with JAWS to back it up, one staff person uses a high contrast black screen with heavy reliance on JAWS, and the third staff person is entirely reliant on JAWS. All three are all using Windows 7. I did some additional testing with the NVDA screen reader on my own machine as well, which doesn't have all the bells and whistles of JAWS, but it's free and good enough for simple testing.
The first thing I discovered is that JAWS works better with Internet Explorer than any other browser, and that JAWS users really dislike Chrome because of its poor accessibility. Since the web client doesn't work at all on IE (we couldn't even successfully log in), that left Firefox as the only testing option. Rather than trying to identify every little issue, I divided my notes into 5 major types of elements that need attention throughout the web client in order to bring the interface closer to compliance: Section labels / nested headings: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1615707 Field labels: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1615800 Button labels: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1615714 Button order/placement on forms: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1615805 Things that look like tables but aren't: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1615781 Terran McCanna PINES Program Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Suite 150 Atlanta, GA 30345 404-235-7138 [email protected]
