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Executive Summary: Accessibility Project

Dogs with Jobs was developed to be accessible and 508 compliant. This summary describes the accessibility conformance of the project Dogs with Jobs. Dogs with Jobs emphasis is on understanding the underlying code that makes websites and other documents on the Internet accessible to those with a variety of challenges in accessing information. The portion of the website “project” incorporates content that explores dogs and their jobs. The emphasis of the content is educating the public about service dogs. The goal is to meet the standards and guidelines outlined in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (developed by the W3C-World Wide Web Consortium).

This summary describes the accessibility conformance of the project Dogs with Jobs. Dogs with Jobs emphasis is on understanding the underlying code that makes websites and other documents on the Internet accessible to those with a variety of challenges in accessing information. The portion of the website “project” https://www.nancyhemenway.com/project/ incorporates content that explores dogs and their jobs. The emphasis of the content is educating the public about service dogs. The goal is to meet the standards and guidelines outlined in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 (developed by the W3C-World Wide Web Consortium).

Evaluation Tools

As the site was developed a number of tools were used. Coding (both html and CSS) was achieved using “Brackets” source code editor with a primary focus on web development. All coding was completed by hand and without use of a WYSIWYG format. The site evaluation concentrated on Emotional Support Dogs, Service Dogs, and the ADA pages.

The project site and was tested using a number of assistive technology, browsers and automated tools. Browsers used for testing included Google Chrome on an iMac Desktop running Mojave 10.14.5 OS and also within the Windows 10 (virtual environment on an iMac) running under Parallels version 14. Also used were current versions of Firefox (Mozilla), and Safari (Apple)

Other Assistive Technology Used for Evaluation

  • Assistive technology used for testing: JAWS v2019.1906.10 ILM Home Student Version (screen reading application), on a standard Apple keyboard with attached numeric pad and a trackball pad.
  • Automated Tools: WAVE Chrome Extension (Chrome), Color Contrast Analyzer and Siteimprove Accessibility Checker, and the Github Color Contrast Analyzer

Please Note: The Project Homepage and the Service Dogs pages were reviewed in detail. All pages in the project directory have the same consistent framework so any issues found would tend to be similar and then adjusted using the CSS style sheets. If you encounter any issues, please feel free to contact me on my biographical page and I may correct them. It is my goal to make all portfolio pages accessible. Download the executive summary as a Word document.

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