WordCamp UK - Accessibility and HTML 5

by Benjamin Ellis on Jul 21, 2010

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Talk on getting started with accessibility (in a pragmatic way) and pointers on HTML 5 readiness. Full post at: ...

Talk on getting started with accessibility (in a pragmatic way) and pointers on HTML 5 readiness. Full post at:
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WordCamp UK - Accessibility and HTML 5 — Presentation Transcript

WordCampUK 2010 Building for Accessibility and Getting Ready for HTML 5 Benjamin Ellis @benjaminellis | http://benjaminellis.org http://redcatco.com | http://socialoptic.com http://milestoneplanner.com/

Accessibility WHY? Be a good web citizen. Legal compliance. Bigger Audience. Better design. SEO benefit.

You Really Should Disability Discrimination Act 1995

NOTE: I'm Being Pragmatic 90/10 beats 100/0 every time > do something that makes a difference <

Not Just, But Also... Sight Hearing Cognitive & Learning Motor & Mobility And degrees of severity ...there is no one answer

Even More Complexity A Huge Range of Assistive Technologies: Screen Readers Magnification Input Devices - Speech / Switch OS Built in and 3 rd party

<em> don't Err > the world isn't one size fits all < make your design flexible > the world

Black on Black was cool in Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Not on your web site (ps search spiders hate it too) This isn't clever either...

(um... no...) Do place decorative images in the stylesheet But for many of us the visual cues are important I'VE GOT TEXT ONLY I'M GOOD TO GO, RIGHT?

Flash is evil right? Only if you are Steve Jobs Abode have some great features and guidelines, but it does take time and effort!

Running the Race Twice Or run it once. Well.

Guidelines Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/ but start with: http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/ Or maybe try: http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/ Disability Rights Commission (DRC): Pas 78 Don't lose the will to live!

when the cat comes out the play LWOAM

when the cat comes out the play LWOAM (life without a mouse) Tab index Hovers Access keys

Vague Heuristics look at: your lowest screen resolution black and white without CSS At the source Do you lose the will to live?

Web 2.0 AJAX and all that stuff...

Web 2.0 AJAX and all that stuff... invisible /confusing to screen readers Practice graceful degradation (Progressive enhancement)

Web 2.0 HTML 5 http://slides.html5rocks.com/

HTML You're doing it already (mostly) Video/Audio (WebM) Page Structure Lots of CSS shiny shiny

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