My presentation at the panel on accessible web applications at the European Accessibility Forum in Frankfurt

1. Accessible
web applica,ons
Chris,an Heilmann ‐ European Accessibility Forum, Frankfurt/Main, 27/03/09

2. A lot of web applica,ons
are not accessible.

3. There are several
reasons for this.

4. Changing exis,ng web
applica,ons is possible,
but a pain.

5. In a lot of cases,
maintainers of web apps
are simply not aware of
the issues they cause.

6. So we need to
find and tell
people the real
informa,on.
hJp://scrip,ngenabled.org/presenta,ons/

7. And then show in easy
proof of concepts that
the change can happen
and have an impact.

9. This can have a massive
impact.

10. hJp://icant.co.uk/easy‐youtube/

11. hJp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHBvqwRAduw
hJp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwsDKaalgq8&
hJp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiuT0y0KR6I

12. hJp://video.yahoo.com

14. Do you need to be a
coding wizard to show
how changes can be
made?

15. hJp://www.nicosteiner.de/archives/118‐YQL,‐YUI‐und‐
Yahoo!‐Pipes.html

16. hJp://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/

17. This can help you with an
exis,ng app, but what
about new ones?

18. What we should
concentrate on is how do
we create new apps in a
way that is accessible.

19. Here are some ideas...

20. Simplicity

21. List of links?
ARIA enabled tab control?

22. How about radio group?

23. Data table?
Grid control?

24. What about a
heading structure
with lists and
clever CSS?

25. Excellence

26. hJp://finance.yahoo.com/currency‐converter?u#from=USD;to=GBP;amt=1
hJp://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2009/01/accessible_converter.html

27. Re‐use

28. Web applica,ons can be
built using exis,ng lego
bricks of controls.

29. We’ve already created all
of these bricks in
libraries: Dojo, YUI,
jQuery...

30. And now more and more
of those get ARIA
support for accessibility.

31. hJp://yuiblog.com/blog/category/accessibility/

32. And we share our
findings and ideas.

33. All we want is for you to
make it worth our while
by building upon our
efforts.