SXSW 04: Notes from panel "Accessibility Is For Everybody" 2004

Panel: Wendy Chisholm of the W3C, Dr. John Slatin of University of Texas, Jeff Veen of Adaptive Path, and Sharron Rush of Knowbility moderating.
Saturday, March 13th

Notes:
[keyboard shortcut] access keys need consistency and need not to steal existing ones (recommend using 0-9 instead of alpha characters)

read article "Art of Alt"

wgbh has examples of inserted descriptive commentary in video

[Veen showed examples of sites making use of CSS]
stopdesign.com
wired news
cinnamon.nl
sprintpcs.com
view these with and without css [there are nice bookmarklets (a.k.a. favelets) to easily turn on and off CSS. I need to track one of these down. Probably via Doug Bowman or Tantek]
in newer and older browsers
and visit veen.com for these & other interesting examples

prioritizing incremental change:
home page navigation
most common tasks
test and find what are current problems (then prioritize those and grab low hanging fruit)
put good stuff into templates (and fix errors in templates)

accessify.com

Chisholm: simple way to [do a very rudimentary] test: just don't use your mouse

read new draft of next WCAG guidelines

freedomscientific.com - JAWS [accessible browser software which is expensive, but which you can get a sample of]

frames must have title labels which are meaningful to humans
and skip links to jump between frames

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SXSW 04: Notes from panel "Accessibility Is For Everybody"

Panel: Wendy Chisholm of the W3C, Dr. John Slatin of University of Texas, Jeff Veen of Adaptive Path, and Sharron Rush of Knowbility moderating.
Saturday, March 13th

Notes:
[keyboard shortcut] access keys need consistency and need not to steal existing ones (recommend using 0-9 instead of alpha characters)

read article "Art of Alt"

wgbh has examples of inserted descriptive commentary in video

[Veen showed examples of sites making use of CSS]
stopdesign.com
wired news
cinnamon.nl
sprintpcs.com
view these with and without css [there are nice bookmarklets (a.k.a. favelets) to easily turn on and off CSS. I need to track one of these down. Probably via Doug Bowman or Tantek]
in newer and older browsers
and visit veen.com for these & other interesting examples

prioritizing incremental change:
home page navigation
most common tasks
test and find what are current problems (then prioritize those and grab low hanging fruit)
put good stuff into templates (and fix errors in templates)

accessify.com

Chisholm: simple way to [do a very rudimentary] test: just don't use your mouse

read new draft of next WCAG guidelines

freedomscientific.com - JAWS [accessible browser software which is expensive, but which you can get a sample of]

frames must have title labels which are meaningful to humans
and skip links to jump between frames

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