Presentations given by the Yahoo! Accessibility Lab and associates.
Monday, March 28th, 2011
Even the best-intentioned web developers can make simple accessibility mistakes. This presentation was put together for an internal Yahoo! conference for front-end engineers. It reminds web developers that there are still some basic problems on the web, let’s fix these today and avoid them in the future. The presentation was written by Thierry Koblentz and Ted Drake.
Tuesday, March 8th, 2011
Yahoo’s HackU events allow Yahoo! engineers to hang out with college students for a week as they explore the latest technologies and spend 24 hours in a caffeine powered hack-a-thon. The University of Washington features several accessibility related research programs. So it was great to visit the campus and deliver this presentation on the existing accessibility challenges and future innovations.
This year’s HackU event featured some amazing hacks. The Accessible Hack award winning team attempted to translate data charts into readable text.
You can skip the slide movie and go straight to the presentation transcript with notes.
Continue reading Yahoo! Hack University: Accessibility Innovations and Challenges
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
Dirk Ginader gave this presentation on the 5 layers of accessibility at a Skills Matter event in London. Dirk pushes the traditional view of web development as three layers (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) by adding CSS for JavaScript enabled users and ARIA functionality. This presentation also uses the Yahoo! Finance Currency Converter as an example of progressive enhancement.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
This presentation was developed for the FCC Open Developer Day in Washington DC, November 2010. The presentation discusses accessibility and how to build new projects with Yahoo’s YQL and YUI tools.
Continue reading FCC Open Developer Day: Open and Accessible
