The following is an approximate transcript of the talk – “Outta time, scope, and we fixed that already – Is there a Disconnect” I gave at the 2011 OzeWAI conference in late November 2011. As usual the slide deck is on Slideshare.
I also have a collection of sketch notes from OzeWAI 2011, as I find it easier to sketch the talk than take notes.
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I have been involved with the Australian Web Awards for three years now. Over those three years I have noticed an alarming trend in the results. An almost disconnect from the Australian Web Industry in terms of accessibility.
I have been meaning to get a meetup together for the Perth Web Accessibility community for a while, like about a year.
Well it was good friend and colleague Lisa Herrod in Sydney that inspired me to kick my arse into action. Particualtly after she started the equivalent Sydney accessibility meetup.
The plan is simple to get people with a distinct interest in web accessibility or practicing web accessibility and inclusive design professionals to come along to a regular meetup. Share our knowledge and in general find ways to promote web accessibility and inclusive design within the Perth business and public sectors.
Let’s get some reality on the web accessibility debate.
We all know about WCAG 1, we have all at least had a look at the associated checklists. If you are lucky you may have glanced at WCAG 2.
We all have been developing and designing our sites with semantic content, in compliance with W3C guidelines, using progressive enhancement for the interactive components, unobtrusive Javascript, and graceful degradation of the pages for legacy browsers. Maybe used some of the attributes of ARIA. Sure that’s a no brainer.
We know that doing this will solve most of the accessibility issues.
Tagged: a11y, accessibility, aria, BarCampPerth, calltoaction, inclusive design, p52, patterns, perthbc4, project-52, solution, tokenism, universal design, wcag1, wcag2
