As promised, here is a link to the Youtube video of
the talk on Leveraging Web
2.0 Patterns For Accessibility
given during Google I/O on May 28, 2008 in San Francisco.
Emacspeak users can play the video by hitting e e
on the link, and specifying
emacspeak-m-player-youtube-player when prompted.
You can find the downloadable slides used
during the talk along with other session material on the
Google
I/O page for this session.
Talk Details
Leveraging Web 2.0 Design Patterns For Enhanced Accessibility T. V. Raman (Google)
HTML DOM+ JavaScript constitutes the assembly language of Web Applications. Access To Rich Internet Applications --- ARIA --- adds in a couple of additional op-codes for helping Web applications better communicate with adaptive technologies such as screenreaders. How do we now push the envelope with respect to Web applications and adaptive technologies such as screenreaders and self-voicing browsers in a manner similar to what we as Web developers have collectively achieved for the mainstream user? This session will demonstrate programming techniques that help Web developers experiment with and build in the latest accessibility techniques into their Web applications. We will base this session on project Google-AxsJAX. Developers should know JavaScript, but session doesn't require deep AJAX hackery.
