Open hack 2011-Accessibility

Know the World of Accessibility
Srinivasu ChakravarthulaAccessibility Lab,Yahoo! India Research & Development

Create an inclusive web!

agenda
What’s Accessibility?
Who are people with disabilities?
Assistive Technologies
Accessibility is not just for people with disabilities
The problem
Web Accessibility standards
The Power of ARIA
YUI and Accessibility
HTML 5 and Accessibility

What is accessibility?
Providing equal access to everyone
Providing equal information
Providing equal functionality to all

Who are people with disabilities
Created by situation
Temporary disability due to accident
Functional disabilities

Assistive technologies
Screen readers
Screen magnifiers
Refreshable Braille displays
Trackball
Switches
Head mounted mouse
AAC devices … many more!

Accessibility is not just for people with disabilities but also…
Low band width users
Senior citizens
Search engines
Mobile users

The problem
Most of the web is inaccessible due to:
Lack of semantic code
Lack of use of the standards
Not following the best practices of respective technology

Web accessibility standards
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) - http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php
Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10/
User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/uaag.php
Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) - http://web.guidelines.gov.in/

The power of aria
Makes the dynamic web accessible! Let’s see the examples on Yahoo! Search – auto suggestions on Yahoo! Home page.
Makes inline dialogues and alerts accessible
Different case studies on the use of WAI ARIA – From Yahoo! Search

YUI and Accessibility
An Accessible star rating widget
Accessible Menu controls and many more
YUI Accessibility blog posts - http://yuiblog.com/blog/category/accessibility

Html 5 and accessibility
Best resource: http://html5accessibility.com

Yahoo! Accessibility resources
Yahoo! Accessibility Blog: http://accessibility.yahoo.com
Code Library: http://yaccessibilityblog.com/library/
Twitter: @yahooaccess
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/YahooAccessibility

Thank you! All the best!-@VasuTweets

Open hack 2011-Accessibility

by Srinivasu Chakravarthula on Jul 30, 2011

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