Welcome to my world

Speaker: Steve Faulkner
Twitter: @stevefaulkner
All slides: http://www.webaxe.org/category/event/

Screen reader accessibility experts

Follow in twitter:

Mike Ervin at @smartasscrip
Derek Featherstone @feather
Léonie Watson @LeonieWatson

Interesting Links

juicystudio.com (Jos, one of the first web devs)
www.html5accessibility.com

Interoperability needs to be fixed

In browsers
In assistive tech
In coding practices & understanding
In specs

I concentrate on:

Screen Readers
A11y APIs
HTML semantics
ARIA & HTML

Accessibility is about many things, many aspects. Not everyone can know everything!

Accessibility APIs

ARIA should be used sparingly, don't use it if you don't need to.

http://juicystudio.com/article/making-ajax-work-with-screen-readers.php

Look back before blaming technology, is your code good enough?

https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support