A talk about the broken communication between the accessibility world and the developer world and a few ideas how to break down the wall between the two.

1. Accessibility and web
innovation.
Chris Heilmann - Funkas Tillgänglighetsdagar, April 2011

2. Hello there...
Chris Heilmann
@codepo8
wait-till-i.com
#html5

3. Worries about accessibility

4. Disconnect

5. e big web re-boot.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gergtreble/4462755376/

6. Accessibility the show-stopper?

7. Accessibility tech is falling behind

8. Figure and Figcaption
<figure>
<img src="bingresults.jpg"
alt="screenshot of Microsoft Bing">
<figcaption>
Figure 1: A search result page
</figcaption>
</figure>

9. ARIA needs IDs
<figure>
<img alt="screenshot of Microsoft Bing"
src="bingresults.jpg"
aria-describedby="figurecap0">
<figcaption id="figurecap0">
Figure 1: A search result page
</figcaption>
</figure>

10. ARIA needs to move on, too...

11. You need to be accessible - it is the
law!

12. Accessible products are better products

13. ose crazy kids and their ideas - it'll
never work!

14. It is new! Everybody duck!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/publicenergy/4222279663/

15. Painting a wrong image of accessibiliy

16. Accessibility is everywhere!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/the_girl/24593210/

17. Lowering the kerb for people who
want to like accessibility

18. Digitising the world for conversion
http://www.flickr.com/photos/linnybinnypix/1189018851/

19. Structuring allows conversion

20. Being loud and proud and
communicating across borders
http://www.flickr.com/photos/xakaxunknownx/46196787/

21. Don't just tell me, show me!

22. Right now, the web doesn't work that
way.

23. Bad interfaces with broken promises

24. Accessibilty enhancements as a paci er

25. “we added stuff for accessibility!”

26. Truth is - accessibility is hot right now

27. Mobile needs are accessibility needs.

28. Structured documents can be
redesigned

32. Science ction shows us what could be
done.

35. You and I can be Iron Man!

36. Emerging technologies are human and
more accessible

37. Speech recognition.

38. Touch interfaces.

39. Device orientation and gyroscopes

41. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ginnerobot/3554231094/

45. Hidden functionality for those in the
know
+

46. APIs

47. Opening up YouTube

48. Opening up YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwsDKaalgq8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiuT0y0KR6I

49. Geek pride can be yours

50. Give simple instructions

51. Setting technology free

52. Native video and audio

53. Syncing video and other content

54. Native rich interaction and styles
http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

55. Input and output

56. Stop thinking in limits

57. e web is the platform

58. e web is the platform

59. e web is the platform

60. http://webvisum.com/

61. http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/

63. Stop preaching to the choir

64. Stand proud and tall - we can be a
butter y!

65. anks!
Chris Heilmann
@codepo8
#mozilla
#html5/freenet