Bringing the Web Back to the Blind
summary
Javascript-driven sites increasingly break navigation for screenreaders; VoiceOver demos show Google Weather and Bootstrap tabs producing pages of useless numbers or skipping content. Claim: use semantics and WAI-ARIA roles, landmarks and aria-hidden instead of visual hacks. Tooling: VoiceOver plus Safari for demos, JAWS+IE or NVDA+Firefox for wide coverage. Number: ~7 million Americans need assistive tooling. Example build: an Ember ARIA-compliant tab widget that announces tab, tabpanel and selected and actually works for keyboard and screenreader users.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:25What is Accessible
- 6:29Statistics
- 10:16Landmarks
- 11:27Demo
- 15:09Hidden
- 17:31Hard
- 20:29False Fuzzies
- 22:25Tab Roles
- 27:29Audible Interaction
- 28:23Random Tips
