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Web Accessibility Gone Wild

Event Interactive 2010
Format Solo
Organizer Jared Smith WebAIM
Description 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.
Questions
Answered
  1. Can you have too much web accessibility?
  2. What is appropriate alternative text for web images?
  3. Why is appropriate alt text the most difficult aspect of web accessibility?
  4. How do you provide accessibility for complex images (charts, graphs, etc.)?
  5. Why are accessibility options for sissies?
  6. Why is accessibility more important than compliance?
  7. How are misinterpretations of web accessibility guidelines hurting users?
  8. Why is it important to look beyond screen reader accessibility to cognitive, motor, and other disabilities?
  9. How important is code validity to accessibility?
  10. What is the best way of ensuring your web app is truly accessible?
Level Intermediate
Category Accessibility / Web Standards, Digital Divide, Front-End Programming, User Experience