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Beyond just “it’s accessible”
Alt title: Fun ideas around a11y
Beyond just “it’s accessible”
• Some links
• Cool JavaScript
• Increased usability
• Produce Empathy #a11y
• Demos along the way
Beyond just “it’s accessible”
• Some links
• Cool JavaScript
• Increased usability
• Produce Empathy #a11y
• Demos along the way
Some links
https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-low-vision-needs-20160317
Some links
http://a11yproject.com
Some links
http://opendyslexic.org/
Some links
http://spritzinc.com/
Cool Javascript
https://www.drupal.org/project/a11y
• A11y Drupal module
• Adds block of options to drupal
• High contrast
• Text scaling
• Color inversion
• Open Dyslexia font
• Remembers user setting
• Includes dyslexia simulator
Cool Javascript
https://www.drupal.org/project/a11y
• A11y Drupal module
• Adds block of options to drupal
• High contrast
• Text scaling
• Color inversion
• Open Dyslexia font
• Remembers user setting
• Includes dyslexia simulator
Cool Javascript
http://materializecss.com/
• MaterializeCSS
• Design style inspired by Google
• ScrollSpy heading reader
• Visualize heading hierarchy
• Core in ELMS:LN - “Just works”
Cool Javascript
https://github.com/btopro/speedreader
• Speed Reader
• Power skim to prime memory
• Improves recall
• Also useful for those with dyslexi
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Cool Javascript
http://keithamus.github.io/jwerty/
• Jwerty
• Easily add keyboard shortcuts
Cool Javascript
https://www.talater.com/annyang/
• Annyang
• Easily add voice commands
• Drupal module easy to integrate
The future
https://github.com/TalAter/SpeechKITT
• Completely spoken interfaces
• No need for voice-over in platforms
• HTML 5 spec
• SpeechSynthesisUtterance
• Allows computer to talk to you
Next step from there is a conversation…
The future
https://github.com/elmsln/hax
• HAX voice / mouse based interface
• Building HTML in the browser
• Easier to integrate into other systems
• Output is HTML
• Tool could wrap onto existing HTML
Questions
@btopro
elmsln.org

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ELMS:LN Beyond accessibility

Editor's Notes

  1. https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-low-vision-needs-20160317
  2. https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-low-vision-needs-20160317
  3. https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-low-vision-needs-20160317
  4. https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-low-vision-needs-20160317
  5. https://courses.aanda.psu.edu/art010/node/1992
  6. https://courses.aanda.psu.edu/art010/node/1992
  7. https://courses.aanda.psu.edu/art010/node/1992
  8. https://courses.aanda.psu.edu/arth111
  9. https://courses.aanda.psu.edu/arth111
  10. https://courses.aanda.psu.edu/arth111
  11. https://courses.elms.psu.edu/sing100/sites/all/modules/local_contrib/hax/libraries/hax/hax.html