F2 - Legal issues

Question 1

What is an accessibility legislation? name two examples of accessibility legislation.

Answer 1

It is a legislation that helps prevent discrimination against people with disabilities.
- Disability discrimination Act 1995
- Equality Act 2010

Question 2

What is the Disability Discrimination Act 1995?

Answer 2

It’s an accessibility legislation that was made to prevent businesses and the government from discriminating against people with mental and physical illnesses by :
- treating them less favourably
- failing to make reasonable adjustments
- subjecting someone to harassment
Protecting people with HIV/ Cancer/ mental illnesses.

Question 3

What is the Equality Act 2010?

Answer 3

It is a legislation that includes the sex discrimination act, legal pay act, race relations.
- associated discrimination: discriminating against someone because their family member is disabled
- indirect discrimination: company policy that negatively impacts disabled people
- perceived discrimination: discriminating against someone because you think they’re disabled.
- organisations have to make sure they’ve put in facilities that allows everyone to access the IT systems

Question 4

What are the purpose of accessibility guidelines and name 2 examples.

Answer 4

To make sure IT systems are accessible to users
- British Standard Institute
BSI codes of practice (national standards)

Question 5

What are the 16 steps to conform to the standard to be incorporated into the production of the web product

Answer 5

1. Define the purpose of the web product
2. Define the target audiences for the web product
3. Analyse the needs of the target audiences for the web product
4. Note any platform or technology preferences and restrictions of the web product’s target audiences
5. Define the relationship the product will have with its target audiences
6. Define the user goals and tasks the web product needs to provide
7. Consider the degree of user-experience the web product will aim to provide
8. Consider inclusive design and user-personalized approaches to accessibility
9. Choose the delivery platforms to support
10. Choose the target browsers, operating systems and assistive technologies to support
11. Choose whether to create or procure the web product in-house or contract out externally
12. Define the web technologies to be used in the web product
    13.Use web guidelines to direct accessible network production
13. Assure the web product’s accessibility through production
14. Communicate the web product’s accessibility decisions at launch
15. Plan to assure accessibility in all post-launch updates to the product