Inclusive Design 24 2014
who it's for
accessibility specialists, ux designers, frontend developers, web developers, product managers, quality assurance engineers, content designers
topics
WCAG 2 conformance; HTML5 and ARIA; accessible web components; high contrast mode handling; keyboard focus management; progressive enhancement with JavaScript; accessibility inspection tools; multimodal content and captions; involving people with disabilities; Drupal accessibility features; HTML5 Canvas accessibility; remediation prioritization
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| These 5 Changes Will Advance Inclusive Design | Mike Paciello | 49m |
Promises five concrete shifts and delivers three clear ones: accessible user experience becomes the core standard — focus on personas, usability testing with… | ||
| WearAbility: the connection between accessibility and wearable computers | Ted Drake | 48m |
Survey of working prototypes and research rather than theory: a 2004 backpack system and vibrating safety glasses evolved into Google Glass head-tilt controls… | ||
| Dealing with High Contrast Mode, Custom Stylesheets, and Icon Fonts | Hans Hillen | 53m |
Icons implemented as CSS backgrounds or sprites vanish under Windows high contrast mode and user stylesheets, and font-icon sets break when a user overrides… | ||
| Web accessibility – the Australian experience | Andrew Arch | 49m |
Australia adopts WCAG 1.0 in 2000 then WCAG 2.0 in 2009 and launches a four‑year Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy in 2010 that sets WCAG 2A by… | ||
| Introduction to the Web Accessibility Toolbar (WAT) | Graeme Coleman | 52m |
Freeware Internet Explorer extension that inspects one page at a time and actually lists images with alt text, can show alt attributes next to images and… | ||
| Why WCAG is not enough | Susanna Laurin | 34m |
Research shows that carefully rewritten plain text reaches only 50–60% understood (test subjects); adding images or video raises comprehension by 20–30% more… | ||
| AccessiWeb Methodology | Armony Altinier | 26m |
AccessiWeb reduces WCAG 2 into concrete, testable rules so auditors answer one question one answer per criterion; it produces printable criteria and a label… | ||
| What modern web apps sound like | Marco Zehe | 56m |
Live demo shows what HTML5 plus WAI-ARIA actually sounds like through Firefox Nightly + NVDA 2014 and commercial Vocalizer voices, using real Twitter, Facebook… | ||
| JavaScript for accessible web applications | Ian Pouncey | 58m |
Advocates progressive enhancement and server-side rendering with deferred JavaScript — Twitter cuts time to first tweet 1/5 by rendering first and running JS… | ||
| So How Do I Know if my Website is Accessible? | Graham Armfield | 48m |
A practical yes/no checklist shows whether a site actually works: keyboard-only navigation and visible focus, correct tab order, keyboard-accessible drop‑downs… | ||
| Accessibility starts with UX | Henny Swan | 01h 00m |
Describes shifting accessibility from a developer silo into integrated UX with concrete fixes: rebuilt iPlayer navigation so primary info appears first, added… | ||
| The Drupal Accessibility Advantage: It's all about starting with Core | Mike Gifford | 42m |
Drupal fixes accessibility at the platform level: Drupal 7 and 8 add semantic form labels, HTML5 landmarks, and fieldset improvements so generated sites are… | ||
| Rock & roll guide to HTML5 & ARIA | Léonie Watson | 51m |
HTML5 elements map to ARIA roles so browsers and AT get clearer semantics, ARIA 1.0 is a W3C recommendation (1.1 is a draft), and the spec lists ~30 roles plus… | ||
| Creating Accessible Documents with Microsoft Word (Windows) | Char James-Tanny | 48m |
A 60-minute demonstration shows step-by-step settings in Windows Word (2000–2010) that make documents and resulting PDFs more accessible: enable show all… | ||
| Accessibility Grindhouse | Matthew Atkinson | 50m |
Proposes a working custom element called W3C-heading custom element (implemented with polymer/web components) that infers heading level from HTML5 section… | ||
| Using the aViewer accessibility object inspection tool | Steve Faulkner | 52m |
aViewer inspects the accessibility APIs behind web content and shows the DOM code plus the accessibility tree, API roles, states and relations across Internet… | ||
| Accessibility of Web Components | Marcy Sutton Todd | 41m |
Argues that Web Components must carry real semantics not just new tags, shows a working taco-button custom element that extends HTMLButton, registers lifecycle… | ||
| Things I Wish I Knew When I Started in Digital Accessibility | Billy Gregory | 42m |
Cuts through generalities with actionable rules: gathers 20+ voices into three buckets — sell it, build it, support it — and gives concrete steps: start small… | ||
| Current Page Link Solutions | Heydon Pickering | 55m |
Compares practical ways to mark the current page link and rejects visual-only classes and replacing links with inert elements, notes testing with NVDA+Firefox… | ||
| Like It Or Lump It: Social Media And Users With Motor Impairments | Makayla Lewis | 49m |
PhD fieldwork combines interviews, observations and corpus analysis—downloading half a million tweets, 481 Facebook comments and 13,000 likes—to show frequent… | ||
| HTML5 Canvas Accessibility | Mark Sadecki | 49m |
History and current state of making HTML5 Canvas accessible with concrete features and a live demo: browsers now expose hit regions and drawFocusIfNeeded so… | ||
| Involving People with Disabilities in UX Research | Sarah Horton | 01h 00m |
Practical findings from contextual inquiries and lab usability tests: recruitment and logistics use advocacy partners (Carroll Center), Evernote plus voice… | ||
| Accessible Web Components using Polymer | Alice Boxhall | 44m |
Builds a Polymer ui-ratings demo (five-star widget) and shows it renders inside shadow DOM but starts completely inaccessible. Adds keyboard handling and sets… | ||
| Prioritizing Remediation of Accessibility Issues | Karl Groves | 01h 02m |
Treat accessibility issues as defects and prioritize by concrete factors: measured user impact, ease and speed of repair, location and volume of occurrences… | ||
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