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Chris Mills, Opera Software ASA |
Cross Device Accessibility: Is This For Real?
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Does the one-size-fits-all approach of "One Web" meet the needs of all groups of web users, as web content becomes more complicated? We will discuss strategies for improving accessibility across different devices, covering current issues with mobile accessibility, and potential solutions such as geolocation and CSS3 media queries.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Design Thinking, Front-End Programming, Geolocation, User Experience
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Brian Rowe, Freedom for IP |
Digital Accessibility on Ebooks and Phones : #$@^ Kindle
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Disability rights and accessibility in design are often overlooked in a competitive market. This creates software and systems which are difficult to fix retrospectively. This presentation will save you time, money, and bad press by teaching you to become cognizant of accessibility issues from the outset of projects.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Design Thinking, Licensing / Fair Use / Copyright, Open Source, User Experience
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Matt May, Adobe |
Web Application Accessibility Showdown: Flash/Flex, HTML5 & Silverlight
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When it comes to accessibility, what do the three most popular Rich Internet Application platforms have to offer? This will be a demo-filled showdown, putting each contender through a series of challenges, spanning a range of disabilities.
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Accessibility / Web Standards
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B
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Eston Bond, Spymaster |
Design for Engineers: Making Your App Work for Normal Users
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Are you an engineer or web developer sick of having designers tell you your interfaces look (and work) like crap? In this panel, designers and engineers will work together to lay down the basics of typography, visual design, interface design and accessibility in easy-to-remember rules engineers can apply to their interfaces. Questions will also be taken from the panel-goers.
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Design Thinking, Information Architecture, Interface Design, User Experience, Visual Design
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DongYol Lee, Waaotn & Company, Ltd. |
About Accessibility, Alienation, Augmented Audio Reality And Tweet
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Being one of successful entrepreneurs means you got new ideas,
less competitors, sound market and appropriate timing. You know it.
Then this year of 2010 will be the first year of your company's history.
Social accessibility will be your concern.
Your customers shall become busy to tweet, thanks to you.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Business / Entrepreneurial / Monetization, Social Networking, User Experience
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Jared Smith, WebAIM |
Web Accessibility Gone Wild
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This session presents a wide variety of mistakes, blunders, misconceptions, over-indulgences, intricacies, and generally silly aspects of modern web accessibility. Sometimes the most serious errors are made by well-meaning developers who misunderstand the concepts or take their limited accessibility knowledge to an extreme level - thus web accessibility gone wild.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Digital Divide, Front-End Programming, User Experience
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Martin Kliehm, The Web Standards Project |
HTML 5 Accessibility
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It appears from the discussions that HTML5 and accessibility are mutually exclusive. The alt and summary attributes were at stake, and we are just beginning to understand the potential of the audio, video, and canvas elements. This panel will show what HTML5 can do for accessibility and how we can bridge the trenches.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Front-End Programming, Geolocation, New Technology / Next Generation, Web Apps / Widgets
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Patrick Fox, Razorfish |
Accessible JavaScript Techniques
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Creating accessible JavaScript is difficult and can be time consuming to create. With the right knowledge and forethought, your JavaScript can be made accessible. This session covers a variety of development techniques and paradigms for creating progressively enhanced JavaScript functionality, and explains some features of and how to implement the Web Accessibility Initiative's Accessible Rich Internet Application (WAI-ARIA)standard.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, User Experience
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Richard Lent, AgencyNet |
Flash vs. Standards: An All-Out Street Fight!
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In a world of SEO, robust JavaScript, CSS, WordPress, mobile accessibility, AIR and (soon) HTML5 what role should Flash play moving forwards? Has it run its course as a development platform, does it continue to add value to the web experience, does it need to evolve, or do we need to use it differently?
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Advertising, Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Design Thinking, Interface Design
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Aimee Roundtree, University of Houston-Downtown |
Accessibility Past, Present & Future: Slatin Tribute
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This panel will discuss the legacy and impact of John Slatin (1953-2008) on web accessibility. It will also preview and discuss new and emerging guidelines, standards, techniques, and technology designed to further advance web and mobile accessibility for those with disabilities, including WCAG 1.0 and the mobile web initiative.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Interface Design, Mobile / Wireless, Non-Profits, User Experience
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Cynthia Shelly, Microsoft |
Accessibility In Microsoft Silverlight
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Microsoft Silverlight enables you to design, develop, and deliver powerful applications and experiences for the web. This presentation will demonstrate the built-in accessibility features of Silverlight, and how to code with them to create accessible interactive user interfaces and media experiences.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, New Technology / Next Generation, Online Video
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Adria Richards, ButYoureAGirl.com |
Accessibility: The Internet We Don't See
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Imagine surfing the Internet with your eyes closed. How would you bookmark a site or send a Tweet? Learn how to code your website so the number keys can be used for navigation and discuss the challenges of a growing segment of folks who surf a little differently.
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Interface Design, International, Social Issues, Visual Design
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Michelle Hinn, IGDA Game Accessibility Group |
Thoughtless Design Leaves Disabled Gamers Logged Out
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With approximately 20% of the US having some sort of disability, potential gamers are being left out of game play due to most design being far too conservative. How different disabilities affect game play and how game design can be more innovative to achieve social justice will be discussed.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Design Thinking, Digital Divide, User Experience, Video Games
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Tom Osborne, Viget Labs |
Designing Emotion: Injecting Style Through Mood Boards
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Sure standards, usability and accessibility are important, er… necessary, but what happened to the design of web design? Does everything need to be function over form? What happened to style and concepts? Without them you have… wireframes. Learn how tools, like mood boards, can help communicate and sell ideas early.
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Art, Branding / Marketing / Publicity, Career / Work Concerns, Design Thinking, Visual Design
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Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) |
Making Your Website Work For Baby-Boomers & Beyond
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Older users are increasingly important customers, as the population ages and older people use the Web more. This means more of your users have poor vision, mouse control, memory, and such. How well does your website work for older users? Get current best practices to meet older Web users' needs.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Design Thinking, Interface Design, Social Issues, User Experience
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Bruce Lawson, Opera Software ASA |
HTML5: Tales from the Development Trenches
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HTML5 is coming. Originally called "web applications 1.0", it brings new semantics, JavaScript APIs for drag and drop, offline storage, generating images, plugin-free video and form validation. It's upset semantic web advocates, accessibility evangelists and baffled developers. Cut through the crap: learn what it is and what it does.
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Accessibility / Web Standards
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Angela Wrigglesworth, Ms. Wheelchair Texas Foundation |
Access This - Online Accessibility Takes on New Meaning
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Accessibility is more than accessible Web design. We’ll explore the inventive ways that three nonprofit organizations define what accessibility means, both online and offline, to their respective Communities. From beauty pageants to Facebook pages to summer camps – the sky is the limit in connecting our world and opportunities to the masses.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Community / Online Community, Non-Profits, Online Relationships
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Michelle Hinn, IGDA Game Accessibility Group |
Rockstars Reborn: Rockband, Hackers, and Gamers with Disabilities
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Music-based games such as Rockband have afforded new opportunities for musicians with disabilities such as MS or missing limbs to perform in a new virtual venue. These games have also brought with them new challenges for hacker disabled gamer advocates to make sure everyone has the “Right to Rock!”
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Becky Gibson, IBM |
Accessibility Smackdown and Makeover
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Tired of the same old inaccessible web site, web apps, videos? Ready to join the cool folks implementing WCAG2, WAI-ARIA and accessible media - but don't know how? Submit your project in advance of SXSW. We’ll pick four and fix accessibility barriers and show HOW we fixed it. There WILL be code!
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Case Study, Design Thinking, Interface Design
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Julie Lewis, Office of the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts |
Elegant Accessibility
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Many commercial designers and developers still think that in order for a site to be 508 compliant, it has to be boring and ugly. Not true. In many cases, making the site accessible also makes the site richer. We will explain how implementing basic accessibility can benefit non-government sites, talk about practical accessibility guidelines, and cover specific techniques for making visually rich sites accessible.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Content, Front-End Programming, Government and Technology, Interface Design
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Shawn Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) |
Your *#@^!in' Website Is Not Accessible! - Getting Results
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What do you do when you come across an inaccessible website? (after yelling at the computer and cursing the developer) What's the best approach for getting the Web more accessible? Carrot or stick? Promoting the business case? Laws and lawsuits? Grassroots community pressure? We'll debate different approaches and provide tips.
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Accessibility / Web Standards, Case Study, Digital Divide, Government and Technology, Social Issues
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