|
|
 |
|
|
| Enhancing Web 2.0 Accessibility Via AxsJAX: A Tutorial at Google - Charles L.... |
 |
Google Tech Talks
July 15, 2008
ABSTRACT
Google is the Web's premier creator of
user-friendly Web 2.0 applications, and we
have long viewed it as part of our mission to
do for users in the long tail (AKA users with
special needs) what we've achieved for the
mainstream user see this Google I/O talk
entitled Design Patterns for Enhanced
Accessibility for background. Accessibility
2.0 is now a hot topic on the Web and we
would like to move from a world where AJAX
applications were a straight No-No with
respect to blind users to a world where these
same technologies are used to enhance their
usability for everyone.
Google-AxsJAX is an Open Source framework for
injecting usability enhancements into Web 2.0
applications. In this talk, Charles Chen and
T. V. Raman will give a hands-on tutorial on
using AxsJAX. The tutorial will cover the
following:
A brief introduction to the additional
opcodes introduced by W3C ARIA to the
assembly language of the Web (AKA
HTML+JavaScript).
AxsJAX library abstractions built on the
above that help Web developers generate
relevant feedback via the user's adaptive
technology of choice.
Steps in creating fluent eyes-free
interaction to Web applications, including
enabling rapid access to parts of a complex
Web page.
The tutorial will provide a step-by-step walk
through in defining AxsJAX enhancements to a
Web page including:
An overview of the developer tools we use.
Discovering pain-points in Web interaction
and designing improvements iteratively.
And time permitting, we might even
demonstrate how Raman now makes up for all
the time he save thanks to an efficient
eyes-free auditory user interface by playing
JawBreaker and reading XKCD via their
AxsJAXed versions.
Note that writing AxsJAX enhancements to Web
applications can help you win cool swag and
bragging rights! The goal of this hands-on
tutorial is to help you get there faster!
Speaker: T. V. Raman
T. V. Raman works on auditory interfaces and
Web applications at Google.
Speaker: Charles L. Chen
Charles L. Chen is the author of Fire Vox --
http://www.clcworld.net -- an Open Source
extension to Firefox that turns Firefox into
a talking Web browser.
Tags : google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
|
Affichage : 7222
Durée : 4337 s |
| Improvement of Web Accessibility in Japan |
 |
Google Tech Talks
March, 17 2008
ABSTRACT
This talk is a shortened version of our
presentation at the CSUN 2008 conference,
titled "Improvement of Web Accessibility:
What A Japanese Web Production Company Can
Do". We would like to introduce how we are
contributing to the improvement of Web
accessibility.
Speaker: Kazuhito Kidachi
Kazuhito Kidachi works for Mitsue-Links, as a
corporate director and the general manager of
the Research and Development Department. He
creates standards-compliant web sites for
Mitsue-Links' clients, and is also
enthusiastic about being an advocate for web
standards in Japan. That's why he's a member
of the Web Standards Project (WaSP).
Speaker: Katsutoshi Tsuji
Katsutoshi Tsuji works for Mitsue-Links as an
Accessibility engineer in the Accessibility
Team of the Research and Development
Department. He has been totally blind since
birth. He started working with Web
accessibility in 2001 as a visually-impaired
consultant. Currently, his main task is
enlightening Mitsue-Links' clients about Web
accessibility.
Tags : google techtalks techtalk engedu talk talks googletechtalks education |
|
Affichage : 4866
Durée : 2047 s |
| Google I/O 2008 - Design Patterns for Enhanced Accessibility |
 |
Leveraging Web 2.0 Design Patterns For
Enhanced Accessibility
T. V. Raman (Google)
HTML DOM+ JavaScript constitutes the assembly
language of Web Applications. Access To Rich
Internet Applications --- ARIA --- adds in a
couple of additional op-codes for helping Web
applications better communicate with adaptive
technologies such as screenreaders. How do we
now push the envelope with respect
to Web applications and adaptive technologies
such as screenreaders and self-voicing
browsers in a manner similar to what we as
Web developers have collectively achieved for
the mainstream user?
This session will demonstrate programming
techniques that help Web developers
experiment with and build in the latest
accessibility techniques into their Web
applications. We will base this session on
project Google-AxsJAX.
Developers should know JavaScript, but
session doesn't require deep AJAX hackery.
Tags : Google I/O IO2008 Accessibility |
|
Affichage : 3108
Durée : 3612 s |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
| |
|
