3.1 Prioritize accessibility issues based on the level of severity.

Question 1

What should be the first focus of remediation?

Answer 1

The core functionality of the site.
If e-commerce, the shopping cart.
If heath, maybe appointments
if jobs, maybe the application process

Question 2

How should we prioritize the accessibility issues found?

Answer 2

By level of severity

Question 3

How do we identify the severity of an identified accessibility issue to give it priority?

Answer 3

1. Identify the issue and if style, markup, or functionality
2. Identify User Impact- who, which disabilities, is there a workaround or is it a complete block?
3. Do Legal Risk/Cost Benefit
4. Identify Level of Effort to do rem- style, markup, or functionality?
5. Prioritize based on the other four

Question 4

Things Michigan State considers when prioritizing where to focus remediation efforts:

Answer 4

1. Number of user impacted and who
2. Is it required to complete coursework, services, programs or activities?
3. Is there an alternative service, program, system, or process?
4. Is there a way to provide a timely accommodation without adversing affecting the experience, opportunity or dignity of the person with a disability? (not sure what this means)

Question 5

At Mish State, What is the meso part of evaluation?

Answer 5

Once systems to evaluate are identified based on priority, their features should be considered based on their importance to accomplishing the task that the program, service, system, or process is used for. Certain features may be less used and therefore should not be prioritized to the same level.

Question 6

At Michigan state-What is micro-prioritization?

Answer 6

Micro-prioritization is done by prioritizing individual fixes that need to be made to increase the accessibility of portions of a product/service within a digital system.

Micro-prioritization involves tracking bugs, and understanding the impact that bugs have on the user.

Question 7

At Mish state, how are the individual bugs prioritized?

Answer 7

the significance of the accessibility barrier.

on the impact that these bugs have on the end user.

Question 8

What is Mish States Accessibility Severity Scale?

Answer 8

Level 4, Blocker: Prevents access to core processes or many secondary processes; causes harm or significant discomfort.
Level 3, Critical: Prevents access to some secondary processes; makes it difficult to access core processes or many secondary proceseses.
Level 2, Major: Makes it inconvenient to access core proceses or many secondary processes.
Level 1, Minor: Makes it inconvenient to access isolated processes.
Level 0, Lesser: Usability observation.

Question 9

What three areas of knowledge are needed to create remediation strategies?

Answer 9

1. Knowledge of how to create accessible
   content (competency I)
2. The ability to identify accessibility issues (competency II)
3. The wisdom to choose an appropriate remediation technique for the circumstances,
   taking into account all the practical limitations of real-world situations.

Question 10

Making a site accessible depends on what factors?

Answer 10

1. The type of content
2. The size of the site
3. The complexity of the site
4. The development tools and environment(CMS)
5. Time
6. Money
7. The current state of the development

Question 11

What needs to be considered when deciding between doing the ideal best or the good enough fix?

Answer 11

the particular project, its environment, intended

target groups, and resources.

Question 12

Why would you opt for an entire web site redesign rather than remediating the issues?

Answer 12

older sites are often incompatible with the newest innovations or remediation code
new WCAG guidelines cannot be implemented on the site?

Question 13

The four stages of Planning and Managing Accessibility (W3C): Initiate, Plan, Implement, Sustain.
What happens in the stage Initiate?

Answer 13

align accessibility with existing organizational approaches;
develop and communicate clear, measurable objectives;
engage stakeholders to secure understanding and broad support throughout the organization.

Question 14

The four stages of Planning and Managing Accessibility (W3C): Initiate, Plan, Implement, Sustain.
What happens in the stage Plan?

Answer 14

1. Create accessibility policy
2. Assign responsibilities
3. Determine budget and resources
4. Review environment
5. Review website
6. Establish monitoring framework
7. Engage with stakeholders

Question 15

The four stages of Planning and Managing Accessibility (W3C): Initiate, Plan, Implement, Sustain.
What happens in the stage Implement?

Answer 15

1. Build skills and expertise
2. Integrate goals into policies
3. Assign tasks and support delivery
4. Evaluate early and regularly
5. Prioritize issues
6. Track and communicate progress

Question 16

The four stages of Planning and Managing Accessibility (W3C): Initiate, Plan, Implement, Sustain.
What happens in the stage Sustain?

Answer 16

1. Monitor websites
2. Engage with stakeholders
3. Track standards and legislation
4. Adapt to new technologies
5. Incorporate user feedback