This document discusses web accessibility and provides information on: 1) What accessibility is and who it benefits including people with disabilities and others like low bandwidth users. 2) Common assistive technologies like screen readers and magnifiers. 3) Web accessibility standards like WCAG and ARIA. 4) How ARIA makes dynamic content accessible and examples of its use. 5) How YUI and HTML5 support accessibility. 6) Resources for learning more about accessibility from Yahoo.

2. Know the World of AccessibilitySrinivasu ChakravarthulaAccessibility Lab,Yahoo! India Research & Development

3. Create an inclusive web!

4. agendaWhat’s Accessibility?

5. Who are people with disabilities?

6. Assistive Technologies

7. Accessibility is not just for people with disabilities

8. The problem

9. Web Accessibility standards

10. The Power of ARIA

11. YUI and Accessibility

12. HTML 5 and AccessibilityWhat is accessibility?Providing equal access to everyone

13. Providing equal information

14. Providing equal functionality to allWho are people with disabilitiesCreated by situation

15. Temporary disability due to accident

16. Functional disabilitiesAssistive technologiesScreen readers

17. Screen magnifiers

18. Refreshable Braille displays

19. Trackball

20. Switches

21. Head mounted mouse

22. AAC devices … many more!Accessibility is not just for people with disabilities but also… Low band width users

23. Senior citizens

24. Search engines

25. Mobile usersThe problemMost of the web is inaccessible due to:

26. Lack of semantic code

27. Lack of use of the standards

28. Not following the best practices of respective technologyWeb accessibility standardsWeb Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

29. Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) - http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/aria.php

30. Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) http://www.w3.org/TR/ATAG10/

31. User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 1.0 http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/uaag.php

32. Guidelines for Indian Government Websites (GIGW) - http://web.guidelines.gov.in/The power of ariaMakes the dynamic web accessible! Let’s see the examples on Yahoo! Search – auto suggestions on Yahoo! Home page.Makes inline dialogues and alerts accessibleDifferent case studies on the use of WAI ARIA – From Yahoo! Search

33. YUI and AccessibilityAn Accessible star rating widget

34. Accessible Menu controls and many more

35. YUI Accessibility blog posts - http://yuiblog.com/blog/category/accessibilityHtml 5 and accessibilityBest resource: http://html5accessibility.com

36. Yahoo! Accessibility resourcesYahoo! Accessibility Blog: http://accessibility.yahoo.comCode Library: http://yaccessibilityblog.com/library/Twitter: @yahooaccessFacebook: http://www.facebook.com/YahooAccessibility

37. Thank you! All the best!-@VasuTweets