Learning the World » panel http://learningtheworld.eu Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:17:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 HTML 5 Accessibility at SXSW Interactive http://learningtheworld.eu/2009/html5-accessibility/ http://learningtheworld.eu/2009/html5-accessibility/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:00:39 +0000 http://learningtheworld.eu/?p=719 SXSW is an enormous web conference in Austin / Texas with hundreds of panels squeezed into four days. The panelpicker application opened today and yours truly is hosting a panel on HTML 5 Accessibility. Please vote for me and twitter about it! :-) If the panel is chosen I’d like to invite a few people (will not disclose who until the panel is confirmed, but I have a nice line-up on my mind) to answer the following questions:

  1. What are the issues of accessibility in HTML 5?
  2. What is the canvas element?
  3. What is the difference between video built in natively in the browser or provided through a Flash plugin?
  4. Why are people in the HTML 5 working group so nasty to each other?
  5. Why is accessibility important in an emerging standard?
  6. Can’t accessibility be added later?
  7. What is the state of support of HTML 5 in browsers?
  8. When can we start to use HTML 5?
  9. What can geolocation do for accessibility?
  10. Does assistive technology support HTML 5 features?

So please vote for it now, and while you’re at it, show your love to some other accessibility and web standards proposals as well. </thxkbay>

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South by Southwest (SXSW) is a huge conference for interactive media as well as a film and music festival in Austin, Texas, March 7-11, 2008. Every year it attracts the best designers and developers, and there is an immense number of panels to choose from. Exactly 128, out of which 80 are chosen from an open submission process.

Gez Lemon and I plan to run a panel called “Get Rich, Remain Accessible,” naturally about WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). Gez wrote a great article about ARIA liveregions, and I wrote that article at A List Apart, so it’s the perfect team. Together we would like to present:

  1. The accessibility problems introduced by the current trend of web applications,
  2. new ways to add semantic meaning, communicate importance, define relationships, and give focus to elements using WAI-ARIA,
  3. how to limit the impact of these problems whilst WAI-ARIA is gaining support by user-agents, and techniques that work right now.

It would be nice if you took the time to vote for us at the SXSW panel picker application. The voting process is open until 11:59 pm, September 21. If you push our presentation to the top 80 you will ensure Gez and I actually make every effort to attend the conference as we will get free tickets for ourselves. Spread the word … ;)

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