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- Pixel Pioneers2 editions2022–2025
- beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf2 editions2022–2025
- ffConf2 editions2016–2024
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- Hidde de Vries17 talks
- Marcy Sutton Todd23 talks
- Scott Davis44 talks
- Mauricio Palma7 talks
- Aaron Gustafson9 talks
- Rowdy Rabouw21 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| There Is No Spoon | Pixel Pioneers 2025 | 2025-06-20 |
Generative AI produces plausible output but often gets practical details wrong: ChatGPT returns an “accessible” button with aria‑label misuse and a wrong type… | ||
| There Is No Spoon | beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025 | 2025-05-05 |
Models train on indiscriminate copyrighted material and the claim is framed as theft, while data centres burn electricity and water at scale; ChatGPT outputs… | ||
| AI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks | Wey Wey Web 2024 | 2024-11-27 |
Compares discriminative tools (Dragon, Siri, object/character recognition) with generative models and shows concrete wins and failures: Seeing AI gives useful… | ||
| AI and Accessibility: the Good, the Bad, and the Bollocks | ffconf 2024 | 2024-11-08 |
Covers what actually works and what fails: demos with Seeing AI and iOS18 give real-time description and five‑minute video audio descriptions, Meta/Ray‑Ban… | ||
| Designing voice interfaces | CSS Day 2023 | 2023-06-08 |
A clear claim: the CSS Speech module exists but CSS Speech is unimplemented in browsers, leaving authors unable to design oral presentation the way they style… | ||
| Accessibility: the land that time to interactive forgot | performance.now() 2022 | 2022-10-27 |
Claim: the browser builds a second structure—the accessibility tree—and its construction path materially drives perceived Time To Interactive, sometimes adding… | ||
| Accessibility: The Land Time to Interactive Forgot | Pixel Pioneers Bristol 2022 | 2022-06-10 |
Browsers build a parallel accessibility tree alongside the DOM and that extra work can delay Time To Interactive — an extreme page example has 354 headings and… | ||
| Bag of Spanners | beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2022 | 2022-05-02 |
Claims that browser accessibility tree plus HTML implicit semantics give free role/name/state information, and that ARIA (aria-pressed, aria-label… | ||
| You talkin' to me? | OZeWAI 2020 | 2020-12-09 |
Starts from 1961 IBM voice demos and traces to the 2014 Amazon Echo to show concrete tooling: VXML for telephony, the Alexa SDK plus JSON requests/slots that… | ||
| Web Components and the AOM | JSConf.Asia 2019 | 2019-06-14 |
Web Components combine Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, HTML Templates, ARIA and the Web Speech API to build real accessible widgets: a working speak-content… | ||
| Time Traveller's Guide to Accessibility Mechanics | DevDays Europe 2019 | 2019-05-14 |
Explains concrete mechanics: builds a toggle button from a span then from a custom element, shows how aria-pressed and tabindex plus keyboard handlers… | ||
| I, Human | Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2018 | 2018-11-05 |
Covers concrete demos and failures: Microsoft Seeing AI is shown working—phone camera + cloud gives useful scene and person descriptions—while Watson fed Urban… | ||
| There's more to Performance than meets the Eye | DeltaV Conference 2018 | 2018-05-10 |
Shows measurable effects: screen readers rely on the browser’s accessibility tree, and Chrome mitigates latency by caching that tree into the application… | ||
| You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! | Nordic.js 2017 | 2017-09-07 |
Clear examination of concrete accessibility traps: why Windows screen readers gobble keystrokes and break JavaScript letter shortcuts, how rebuilding buttons… | ||
| You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! | Frontend United 2017 | 2017-05-26 |
Shows that JavaScript and ARIA can help or break accessibility with concrete demos: VoiceOver NVDA JAWS and Narrator behavior is recorded, Twitter keyboard… | ||
| Technologic (Human After All): Accessibility remix | ffconf 2016 | 2016-11-10 |
Examples show that plain HTML often gives accessibility for free and that pragmatic fixes use ARIA and scripting to add role, name and state — a disclosure… | ||
| Developer's Guide to Accessibility Mechanics | You Gotta Love Frontend 2016 | 2016-06-27 |
Shows concrete mechanics: use semantic HTML for free accessibility, or when using div/span add focusability with tabindex="0", expose role and state with… | ||
| On CSS accessibility and drinking tea | CSS Day + HTML Special 2016 | 2016-06-16 |
Claim: CSS generated content is exposed to assistive tech — ::before/::after text gets inserted into the accessibility tree in most browsers, surprising screen… | ||
| Rock & roll guide to HTML5 & ARIA | Inclusive Design 24 2014 | 2014-05-15 |
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… | ||
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