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Accessibility Toronto Conference 2018 Review

Post author By Dennis
Post date October 24, 2018
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The second Accessibility Toronto Conference was another success! It was held at TELUS in beautiful downtown Toronto, Canada. Hosted by the lovely Léonie Watson (@LeonieWatson) and the always entertaining Makoto Ueki (@mak_en).

Accessibility Toronto Conference hash tag #a11yTOConf

Presentation Resources (partial list)

If your presentation resource is not listed, please leave a comment or contact me on Twitter at @WebAxe.

Welcome To My World
by @SteveFaulkner

Assistive Technology: Training, UX And Design: What Devs Need To Know About UX And Aging
by @SassyOutwater

Finding The Place Where Accessibility And SEO Happily Co-Exist
by @CarieFisher

If It’s Interactive, It Needs A Focus Style
by Eric Bailey @ericwbailey

A Primer On The Designer’s A11y Responsibility
by Hala Anwar @halathinkeths

The Dark Side Of The Grid
by Manuel Matuzović @mmatuzo

Creating Accessible React Apps
by Scott Vinkle @svinkle

Making Bulb More Accessible
Related article: Making Bulb accessible – introducing the new Bulb site
by Heydon Pickering @heydonworks

Photos

Billy kicking off the event

Grinch don’t like bad captions

John Foliot talking WCAG

Makoto and Leonie on stage introducing Hala.

Collection of A11yTO 2018 photos on Google Photos

Tweets

https://twitter.com/aardrian/status/1052299576563159041

Assistive tech isn’t just screen readers! #a11yTOConf pic.twitter.com/fF5kxo0ysb

— Katelyn Lemay (@lemayke) October 15, 2018

https://twitter.com/mmatuzo/status/1052255673034133505

Audible gasps from the audience as @shepazu demos a tool to explore table data with a screen reader.

Not just reading the data out in order but asking and answering questions: “What are the top 5?” “How does C compare to N?”#a11yTOConf

— Stephanie Hobson (@stephaniehobson) October 15, 2018

Sustaining Accessibility – Risks:
1. critical employee turnover
2. inadequate accessible training
3. changes in regulatory requirements
4. inadequate oversight in product mgmt
5. loss of tech interoperability
by @sambhavi #a11y #a11yTOConf

— Web Axe (@webaxe) October 15, 2018

React code doesn't have to be inaccessible any more than hip-hop has to be misogynist.

— front-end.social/@heydon (@heydonworks) February 9, 2018

https://twitter.com/aardrian/status/1051909502851837955

Last Thoughts

Unfortunately, Eric Wright (@EWAccess) wasn’t able to give his presentation “Speech Recognition Solutions” due to breaking his ankle while he was in Toronto for the conference. Feel better Eric!

Was great to meet several folks in person for the first time whom I had known for a while online including Heydon Pickering, Eric Bailey, and Manuel Matuzović.

I discovered Steam Whistle pilsner (brewed in Toronto) which was very good!

Billy Gregory announced that the event will take place again next year in the same location (and Cordelia and Heydon invited to host!)

Here’s the review of last year’s conference (2017), Accessibility Toronto Conference a big success!

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WCAG 2.1 article series via Knowbility

Post author By Dennis
Post date September 16, 2018
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As you may know, WCAG 2.1 was recently published as a Recommendation (see my WCAG 2.1 post in this past June). It adds 1 new guideline (2.5 Input Modalities) and 17 new success criteria.

To help understand the new criteria, check out this excellent “Exploring WCAG 2.1” article series on the Knowbility website and written by Becky Gibson.

Overall: Welcome, WCAG 2.1! The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines get an update.

More WCAG 2.1 articles

Axe-core gets WCAG 2.1 rules by Deque Systems.
Webinar Sep. 26, 2018 “What you need to know about WCAG 2.1 by Léonie Watson.
WCAG 2.1: An Evening With Andrew Kirkpatrick, Head of Accessibility at Adobe, YouTube recording from A11yNYC Meetup Sep. 11, 2018.
Improving web navigation for speech recognition users – about Success Criterion 2.4.12 Label in Name (Level A) by Intopia.

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WCAG 2.1 Now A W3C Recommendation

Post author By Dennis
Post date June 19, 2018
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On 5 June 2018, WCAG 2.1 was published with a Recommendation status, which means it’s stable and ready for implementation. The new guidelines help fill gaps in WCAG 2.0 particularly in the areas of mobile, low vision, and cognitive disabilities.

The new guidelines are backwards compatible with 2.0 as the official W3C announcement by Andrew Kirkpatrick and Michael Cooper explains:

All the criteria from WCAG 2.0 are included in WCAG 2.1, so web sites that conform to WCAG 2.1 will also conform to WCAG 2.0.

Learn more in an upcoming A11Y Talks What’s New with WCAG 2.1 with Carie Fisher and Andrew Macpherson, 27 June 2018.

Summary

Here is a quick list of the new criteria:

1.3.4 Orientation – Level AA
1.3.5 Identify Input Purpose – Level AA
1.3.6 Identify Purpose – Level AAA
1.4.10 Reflow – Level AA
1.4.11 Non-text Contrast – Level AA
1.4.12 Text Spacing– Level AA
1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus – Level AA
2.1.4 Character Key Shortcuts – Level A
2.2.6 Timeouts – Level AAA
2.3.3 Animation from Interactions – Level AAA
2.5.1 Pointer Gestures – Level A
2.5.2 Pointer Cancellation – Level A
2.5.3 Label in Name – Level A
2.5.4 Motion Actuation – Level A
2.5.5 Target Size – Level AAA
2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms – Level AAA
4.1.3 Status Changes – Level AA

W3C page heading for WCAG 2.1

CSUNATC18 Wrap-Up—Resources and Tweets

Post author By Dennis
Post date April 2, 2018
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Another CSUN Assistive Technology Conference has come and gone. Below are some great resources and tweets from the conference. Watch the keynote by Dan Goldstein via YouTube. Read my CSUN 18 preview.

Next year the event will move a bit north to Anaheim, California. CSUNATC19 is planned for March 11 to 15, 2019 at @AnaheimMarriott.

Resources

Crowdsourced Google Sheet of all the presentation slide decks (bit.ly/csunatc18) Google Sheet by @mactoph.
Slides and handouts shared by presenters at the 2018 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, GitHub, by @JamalMazrui.
Potholes of Discrimination: A Post-CSUN Legal Update Wrap-Up and Recipe for Staying Ahead of the Legal Curve: Bake Accessibility into Your Organization by @LFLegal.
Story on CSUNATC18 by San Diego Union Tribune
Microsoft’s CSUNATC18 presentation decks (mostly PowerPoint)
Accessibility Heuristics for Designers: 10 General Rules of Thumb For Accessible Design (PDF via Google Drive) by @CaitlinGeier @DBoudreau.
Waking Up to Digital Accessibility: How the CSUN Assistive Technologies Conference helped me find my calling, by Louise Clark @lclark070607.
Added: Slides: TPG at CSUN 2018.

Tweets

Web accessibility problem areas: placeholder as label, focus management, hijacked scrolling, links without underlines. via @HansHillen Yup! #CSUNATC18 #a11y #webdesign

— Web Axe (@webaxe) March 22, 2018

“Spend money on access not on lawyers” @LFLegal #a11y #CSUNATC18

— Glenda Sims (@goodwitch) March 21, 2018

https://twitter.com/dennisl/status/976682591532167168

Best statement #CSUNATC18 “Accessibility is not rocket science, maybe it should be, we went to the moon & still waiting on ACCESSIBILITY”

— Rima Maldonado (@RimaMaldonado) March 21, 2018

.@jessehausler and I are ready to present about drag-and-drop in 6 minutes, Cortez Hill AB. Don’t let our facial expressions dissuade you, it’ll be a fun talk! #CSUNATC18 pic.twitter.com/NTl4tbfJgi

— Cordelia (@cordeliadillon) March 23, 2018

#CSUNATC18 joke heard today: presenter demos adding a link by adding text "click here" and audience yells "no no!" #CSUN18

— Jennie Delisi (@AT_NMT) March 23, 2018

Did you know? When creating captions in YouTube, you can enter a transcript and it will be auto-synched! #youtube #captions #tips #a11y #csunatc18

— Dennis Lembrée (@dennisl) March 22, 2018

Able Player 3.1 recently released! #CSUNATC18 https://t.co/LUGSEuTuPg by @terrillthompson #video #audio #a11y #webdev

— Web Axe (@webaxe) March 23, 2018

Live from #CSUNATC18 with Sue Boyd and Lainey Feingold, "Beyond Compliance: Staying Out in Front of Digital Accessibility Legal Trends." Presentation: https://t.co/orAR5YQ0V4 pic.twitter.com/fKriDn58xG

— MSFT Accessibility (@MSFTEnable) March 22, 2018

What's new in aXe? @marcysutton shares info about aXe 3.0, shadowdom support, and other updates. #CSUNATC18 pic.twitter.com/yWCnWVmzXv

— Deque Systems (@dequesystems) March 21, 2018

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Digital Accessibility Jobs, February 2018

Post author By Dennis
Post date February 19, 2018
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Many great opportunities are available in the digital accessibility field.

Technical Writer for Web Developer Software at Deque Systems in Ann Arbor, MI.
UI Client Accessibility—Software Engineer at Workday in Pleasanton, CA.
Director of Accessibility at EVERFI in Washington, DC.
Digital Accessibility Specialist at Thomson Reuters in Eagan, MN.
Accessibility Director at AbilityNet in London, UK.
Accessibility Engineer at Adobe in San Francisco, CA.
iOS Accessibility Engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA.
Web Accessibility Consultant at Level Access in San Francisco, CA.
Director Accessibility Services at Utah Valley University in Orem, UT.
UI Client Accessibility – Software Engineer at Workday in Pleasanton, CA.
Digital Accessibility Specialist (contract) at Kaiser Permanente in Pleasanton, CA.
Screen Reader Accessibility Auditor at Accessible360 (remote, I believe).
Web Accessibility Tester at JP Morgan Chase in San Francisco, CA.
Digital Accessibility Engineer (contract) at Collabera in Boston, MA.
Accessibility Specialist wanted at Pearson in Boston or remote.
Sr. Front End Engineer (with WCAG, Ruby skills) at Scribd in San Francisco, CA.
Accessibility Specialist (engineer) at edX in Cambridge, MA.
Product Manager at Deque Systems in Ann Arbor, MI.
Accessibility QA Tester (screen reader user) at Apertus Partners in Mountain View, CA.

Follow me, @a11yJobs, and @LyndonDunbar on Twitter for more!

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Presentation Resources (partial list)

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Last Thoughts

More WCAG 2.1 articles

Summary

Further Reading

Resources

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