(Based on SXSW 2008 session.)
Accessibility is a key aspect of high-quality websites. Accessibility is about real people using and creating the Web. We'll demo how accessibility makes your website available and more usable to people with disabilities; to people using mobile phones, PDAs, and other such devices; to people with low bandwidth connections (which is more of a problem than many are aware of in the U.S. and throughout the world); and to seniors, an increasingly important demographic.
There's been a lot of attention lately on the more complicated aspects of accessibility, but if you're missing the basics that's not going to help you. This session runs through the easy things and the most important things you can do now to get your project up to speed on accessibility. You'll get code and design examples, and see/hear how assistive technologies handle them. We'll look at why accessibility is vital, and how accessible sites are more effective for all — including site developers and users.