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Daren Tsui, mSpot |
The Future of the Music Industry is Mobile
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The music industry is undergoing a drastic transformation, with CD sales plunging and consumers seeking ease and accessibility when it comes to their tunes. Mobile is the future of the industry. This panel would discuss and illustrate how mobile is the next phase of the sales and marketing of music.
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Veerle Pieters, Duoh! n.v. |
Color Angels, Episode 1: Colors: It's Not Black and White
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Exploring the challenges in color combinations as a key to successful website designs. Advice on what tools you'll need in your arsenal to be inspired. Navigating through cultural and accessibility differences in color and showcasing some of the best uses of color the web has to offer.
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Justin Spohn, Nemo |
After Efficiency
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By examining other industries such as manufacturing, this forward looking discussion will ask "what happens once things like SEO, semantic mark-up, accessibility and the like are common and their returns diminish?" Regardless of what area of the web community you work in the current tactical approach to findablity will become less an end, and more of a tool in a wider strategic quiver. This discussion will range in scope from strategy, to architecture and design.
As models of efficiency become more well known and well documented, how will interactive projects differentiate themselves?
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Chrstian Vanek, SurveyGizmo |
Fieldsets, Legends & Labels, Oh My! Making Forms & Surveys Accessible
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Making forms accessible is way more than just adding labels and some techniques are full of unexpected pitfalls. From unique disabilities to different screen readers, one size does not fit all. Learn where some conventional accessibility wisdom falls down when accessibility and usability clash. See real-world examples and tests from the perspective of both the user and the coder, and experience just what's it's like to have a web page read to you.
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Marc Van Norden, Sapient Corporation |
Challenges of Implementing RIAs with Accesibility
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The topic is how to balance rich online experiences while trying to stick to standards compliance, particularly in the wake of the pending Target lawsuit around accessibility. The panel will discuss fundamental development principals that can help ensure that accessibility is not an afterthought, but is baked into the process.
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Tom Lewis, Atalasoft, Inc. |
Digitizing Documents for the Web
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Various methods and strategies to share, view, and collaborate on documents over the web exist but are they actively being used by businesses? What is the balance between accessibility and security? What developments are required to ease the adoption of a technology that can save bandwidth, paper, and physical storage?
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Michael Cooper, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) |
Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools and Techniques
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Browser vendors, code library developers, and Ajax gurus demo best practices for making widgets and dynamic web content accessible. You’ll also see how they're implementing W3C's new Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, WAI-ARIA (nearing completion or done by SXSW 2009!). Get tips and tricks for next generation web accessibility.
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Jeanne Spellman, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative |
User-Generated Content: Supporting Accessibility and Standards
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How do you keep your website meeting web standards and accessibility guidelines when all sorts of people are adding content - from users to administrative assistants? We'll look at challenges and solutions, along with new standards for "authoring tools" ranging from HTML editors to blogging software to photo-sharing sites.
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Lisa Herrod, Scenario Girl |
Aging, Cognition & Deafness: The Quirky Corners of Web Accessibility
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Bored with accessibility? Over AJAX, ARIA and yet another Jaws demo for dummies? Struggling to find a challenge in checklists?
Join us in discussing the quirky corners of web accessibility where we’ll look at technical approaches to aging, deafness, cognitive disabilities and more.
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Andrea Hill, Resource Interactive |
Chicks Digg IT: How Women are Influencing the Future of Social Media
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Men and women run on different OS. Just as Apple has surged into a new market position in 2.0, women are pioneering the direction of the web and social media in an online world that was more male-populated just 10 years ago. What has changed? Meet these women who are on the front lines of the Internet -- they work on big brands, and are leading change in accessibility and architecture -- and hear their thoughts on the tech brother-sisterhood that is the social web.
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Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) |
Mobile and Accessible: Two Birds with One Stone
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Top-notch developers make websites work well on mobile devices, and work well for people with disabilities. Luckily, the overlap between the two means you can accomplish both together with less work. This panel demonstrates those overlaps and introduces new resources to help you address accessibility and mobile usability more effectively.
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Sharron Rush, Knowbility |
AJAX Accessibility: An ARIA Duet
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Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIAs) are not just possible but freely obtained through open source techniques. ARIA developer Becky Gibson will demonstrate ARIA coding techniques and existing toolkits to solve real world challenges posed by accessible technology advocate Sharron Rush.
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Jeanne Spellman, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative |
WCAG 2.0: Practical Implications for Web Accessibility Now
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W3C's new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.0 (probably completed by SXSW 2009!) applies to advanced technologies, including non-W3C technologies. This session demos real-live implementations, best practices, and support resources. You’ll learn what new accessibility standards (including upcoming Section 508) mean for your Web projects now and in the future.
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Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe Systems |
Accessible Flash and Flex Applications
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Developers are increasingly interested in delivering accessible applications that use Flash-based technologies but are uncertain as to what is possible and how to develop and test their applications. This panel will look at best practices and examples, and share information on what's new in Flash accessibility.
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Liz Henry, BlogHer |
Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD
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Gear and software for people with disabilities is usually provided through charity or from medical supply companies. It's hard or impossible to repair it, or get anyone to repair it. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools! With a culture of open source designs, Instructables, wikis, and blogs, we can start an international movement.
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