Videos tagged with Accessibility

Doug Geoffray, developer of early Macintosh voice applications and founder of GW Micro, stopped by Yahoo! in 2007 to tell us about the history and current state of screen-reader support in software, including the nature of the current challenges we face developing screen-reader-accessible dynamic web pages.

In this video from 2007, Yahoo! Accessibility Program Manager Victor Tsaran shows us the core functionality of screen readers and how they interact with the desktop, then demonstrates how he uses them to explore and understand web sites, how sites are "linearized", and how using semantic markup to build sites supports accessible navigation and usability.

With the goal of better understanding how people interact with the Web via various types of Assistive Technology (AT) — and what that might mean for developers and designers — Karo Caran provides an overview of screen magnification software (in this case ZoomText) and how it is used by partially-sighted users to interact with the Web. Karo shows you the basic toolkit and then applies those tool...

Shawn Lawton Henry stopped by in 2007 to give us an update on the standards produced by W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative at Yahoo's European headquarters in London. Where the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0 are very precise and contain a number of technical requirements that might be outdated, WCAG 2.0 takes a much more user-oriented approach. In her presentation, Shawn looks ...

In this talk, delivered at Yahoo! on December 3, 2008, YUI engineer and accessibility specialist Todd Kloots introduces you to ARIA and provides some insights gleaned from his work in bringing ARIA support to a host of YUI widgets.

YUI Engineer and accessibility specialist Todd Kloots discusses the development of accessibility features in the YUI 3 codeline.

In this YUIConf 2009 talk, YUI engineer Todd Kloots demonstrates the accessibility tools built into YUI 3.

Dennis Lembree, an accessibility expert and the creator of AccessibleTwitter, discusses the challenges of making JS-enabled sites accessible. The talk took place at the June 2010 BayJax meetup at Yahoo.

Nicholas Zakas, a principal developer of the Yahoo! homepage, and Victor Tsaran, Yahoo!'s senior accessibility manager, discuss the strategies and methods that made one of the most visited websites in the world fully accessible. The talk took place at the June 2010 BayJax meetup at Yahoo.

Yahoo! Accessibility engineer Ted Drake covers some common accessibility patterns, teaches best practices for building forms, tables, and images, and shows you what is bad and good.