058 JSJ Building Accessible Websites with Brian Hogan

JavaScript Jabber

Episode | Podcast

Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

<div class="trix-content"> <div>Use this link and code JAVAJAB to get 20% off your registration for FluentConf 2013!</div><div>Panel</div><pre>Brian Hogan (twitter github blog) AJ O’Neal (twitter github blog) Joe Eames (twitter github blog) Merrick Christensen (twitter github) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Ramp Up) <br /></pre><div>Discussion<br /> 00:55 - Brian Hogan Introduction</div><pre>HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow's Standards Today by Brian Hogan tmux: Productive Mouse-Free Development by Brian Hogan Web Development Recipes by Brian P. Hogan, Chris Warren, Mike Weber, Chris Johnson, Aaron Godin Development Editor with Pragmatic Bookshelf Professor at Chippewa Valley Technical College <br /></pre><div>01:48 - What Accessibility Means<br /> 02:56 - Making Websites Accessible</div><pre>YSlow People vs Users <br /></pre><div>06:06 - “The Right Things”</div><pre>VersaBraille Responsive Web Design <br /></pre><div>09:00 - Tools &amp; Techniques</div><pre>Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR) Web Fonts ⌘+ <br /></pre><div>14:56 - Manipulating the DOM</div><pre>ARIA - HTML5 Ember.js <br /></pre><div>16:54 - Screen Resolution<br /> 19:24 - Typeahead<br /> 20:58 - Testing</div><pre>Jaws VoiceOver <br /></pre><div>23:11 - Resources</div><pre>WebAIM Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Section 508 <br /></pre><div>25:00 - Dealing with different kinds of impairments</div><pre>Transcripts Text Color <br /></pre><div>28:08 - Ease of Accessibility &amp; Empathy<br /> 31:41 - Interactive Pages<br /> 35:26 - Making things accessible vs not making things accessible</div><pre>Making experiences better for everyone, period <br /></pre><div>42:09 - Resources Cont’d</div><pre>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Pro HTML5 Accessibility by Joe O Conner Design Accessible Web Sites: 36 Keys to Creating Content for All Audiences and Platforms by Jeremy Sydik <br /></pre><div>42:46 - Understanding Others’ Difficulties</div><div>Picks</div><pre>Leviathan: Warships (Joe) Star Command (Joe) That Conference (Joe) Lowes (AJ) Friends (AJ) Ticket to Ride (Chuck) 4 Pics 1 Word (Chuck) Continuum (Chuck) AngularJS (Brian) Presentation Manager from Woojijuice (Brian) <br /></pre><div>Next Week<br /> JavaScript Jabber: jQuery Mobile with Todd Parker<br /> Transcript<br /> MERRICK:  Fine, don’t come to my talk.</div><div>CHUCK:  I won’t. I won’t even come to the conference.</div><div>[Hosting and bandwidth provided by the Blue Box Group. Check them out at Bluebox.net.]</div><div>[This episode is sponsored by Component One, makers of Wijmo. If you need stunning UI elements or awesome graphs and charts, then go to Wijmo.com and check them out.]</div><div>CHUCK:  Hey everybody, and welcome to Episode 58 of the JavaScript Jabber Show. This week on our panel, we have AJ O’Neal.</div><div>AJ:  Coming at you semi-live from ORM.</div><div>CHUCK:  Joe Eames.</div><div>JOE:  Hey everybody.</div><div>CHUCK:  Merrick Christensen.</div><div>MERRICK:  What’s up?</div><div>CHUCK:  I’m Charles Max Wood from Devchat.tv. And this week, we have a special guest. And that is Brian Hogan.</div><div>BRIAN:  Hello.</div><div>CHUCK:  Since you haven’t been on the show before, do you want to introduce your self really quickly?</div><div>BRIAN:  Sure, my name is Brian Hogan and I’m a web developer and I like to spend a lot of time hacking on code in Ruby and JavaScript. I also am an author. I’m a development editor with The Pragmatic Bookshelf. And I have a fabulous new gig where I get to teach brand new programmers how to get started programming now. So, that’s what I’m doing myself.</div><div>CHUCK:  So where’s that at?</div><div>AJ:  Cool.</div><div>BRIAN:  That’s at a little technical college in Eau Claire, Wisconsin called Chippewa Valley Technical College.</div><div>CHUCK:  Oh, cool. Yeah, speaking of your reviewing books for The Pragmatic Bookshelf, Ruby Rogues, we actually interviewed ... Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/javascript-jabber/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy