Wednesday, 22nd August 2007
Summary
Martin Kliehm and I have proposed a panel called, Get Rich, Remain Accessible, for this year's SXSW Interactive Conference and Festival. Vote for our panel, and help encourage web developers to create accessible applications.
Author: Gez Lemon
The SXSW Interactive Conference and Festival is due to take place on March 7-11, 2008, and the panel picker is now available online for attendees to vote for the panels they would most like to see. Martin Kliehm and I have proposed a panel called, Get Rich, Remain Accessible - a panel about creating rich internet applications with WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications).
Web applications not only break the traditional web-page paradigm, but also tend to extend the limited number of form controls afforded by HTML to provide a richer experience for their users. Unfortunately, this typically results in inaccessible applications: screen reader users might not understand the role or state of an interface element; might not be able to perceive changes; might not be able to interact with the application using the keyboard alone; and so on. WAI-ARIA addresses those issues, and Martin and I will provide an overview of how to do this with examples. In particular, we will present:
- The accessibility problems introduced by the current trend of web applications.
- New ways to add semantic meaning, communicate importance, define relationships, and give focus to elements using WAI-ARIA.
- How to limit the impact of these problems whilst WAI-ARIA is gaining support by user-agents, and techniques that work right now.
Martin Kliehm is an accessibility expert with a particular interest in accessible web applications. Martin's article about WAI-ARIA on A List Apart has been very well-received by the web community, and remains the best introduction to the subject on the Web.
If this is a subject that interests you, then please vote for our panel. You never know - you could end up with two good new friends!
Category: Accessibility.
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Gez it was a long time before You write new post so it's good to have You back blogging! I like Your idea "proposed a panel called, Get Rich, But Remain Accessible, for this year's SXSW Interactive Conference and Festival" so I will vote for Your panel! Regards
Posted by Tomasz Gorski on Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 02:35:59
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Have voted
Posted by Billyboylindien on Thursday, 23rd August 2007 at 08:37:19
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Also voted
Though it's a little concerning how that page has ripped off Google. I almost went to enter my Google login details, and that's never a good thing!
Posted by Danny Tuppeny on Friday, 24th August 2007 at 13:26:00
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Hello,
My name´s Hospedagem.
I find this site in www.maujor.com (my friend Mauricio Sammy).
Can I post my comments?
About this post, have voted.
Thank you,
Hospedagem
Posted by Hospedagem on Friday, 24th August 2007 at 15:17:37
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Have voted
Thank a lot,
Bobby
Posted by Bobby on Tuesday, 28th August 2007 at 15:30:02
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I like Your idea on accessibility problems Gez so I also Voted for it. Regards
Posted by Tom Black on Wednesday, 29th August 2007 at 23:04:49