FSOSS 2007 DHTML Accessibility Talk

October 27, 2007
Tags: ajax accessibility

I had a great time this week at the Seneca Free Software & Open Source Symposium (FSOSS). On Friday, David Bolter and I gave a talk on DHTML accessibility. Here are the slides:

(the FSOSS slides are also available in PowerPoint format)

As part of our talk we showed how to build a simple accessible DHTML menu. We started out with a visual, mouse-based menu and added keyboard support, assistive technology support with ARIA, and high-contrast support.

• menu1: visual, mouse-based menu
• menu2: adding keyboard support
• menu3: adding assistive technology support with ARIA
• menu4: adding high contrast focus indication
• util.js: some utility functions used in the menu

I'd like to thank David Humphrey for inviting us to speak and for doing such a great job organising the symposium.