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Fronteers11 Jam Session: a11y goes to 11

Eric Eggert
October 06, 2011

Fronteers11 Jam Session: a11y goes to 11

With this presentation, I wanted to encourage web devs to use and embrace modern web technologies, showing that they might not be inaccessible per se. Accessibility is FUN!

Eric Eggert

October 06, 2011
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  1. a11y goes to 11 …using HTML5+ and CSS3+ by Eric

    Eggert @yatil / @webcontravelers
  2. Responsive Web Design + universally works on every screen size

    + simplifies layout for users who need extremely low screen resolutions (screen magnifying) - di cult to implement if your project is complex
  3. Web fonts + readable by screen readers + resizable +

    easy to implement - di cult to read for mentally challenged people - slight performance penalty
  4. Forms + validation before sending means less errors + required,

    invalid and disabled visible to SR + input according to the type attribute + easy to implement - own validation may interfere visually - mind that post codes are not numbers
  5. Audio & Video + HTML controls increase accessibility + adding

    subtitles is easy + users are in control of autoplay1 - multiple formats needed (ogg/webm + mp4) (1 Not yet implemented, but possible.)
  6. It’s hard to reach Perfection and when you do, it

    is often destroyed by others. Image source: @marklad