Accessibility in Tomorrow's Web (tutorial)

Accessibility is essential for developers and organizations who want to create high quality websites and web tools, and not exclude people from using your online resources. Accessibility ensures that your web products work well for people with a diverse range of hearing, movement, sight, and cognitive ability — and are more usable by all, including the increasing number of older users online. In this tutorial, you'll learn about:

• The basics of how people with disabilities use the Web, including adaptive strategies with mainstream tools and with assistive technologies
• HTML5 features to enhance accessibility, such as canvas WAI-ARIA functionality for making rich Internet applications accessible
• Multimedia accessibility issues and current work on captions The overlap between Responsive Web Design and designing for accessibility from the beginning
• Shortcuts for using W3C standards and supporting resources to answer your questions on a wide range of accessibility issues

We will provide real-world examples of design challenges, coding best practices, and elegant solutions that make your Web products work better for everyone.