Kath Moonan AbilityNet [This is part of the workshop Don’t make me struggle – Using IA and graphic design to enhace accessibility] Inlcusive deisgn toolkit – great website. what is a persona? AN IMAGINARY person based on real data a tool for understanding the wants needs and limitations of our users a vehicle to help …
Kath Moonan, a senior consultant on AbilityNet’s web accessibility and usability team. She is a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and a member of the PAS 78 advisory panel. Before joining AbilityNet, Kath was a senior designer and a company director for Poptel Technology, a company she led to become one of the UK’s first agencies to offer accessible web design. Kath believes firmly in technology being accessible to everyone. She sees improved web accessibility and usability as slowly but surely changing the web for the better. In her spare time Kath enjoys art, design and geek events. She also likes to work on projects that make rock and roll more accessible to everyone.
Many websites that AbilityNet test reach a good level of technical compliance but still represent significant challenges to users. In this workshop AbilityNet’s Senior Consultant Kath Moonan will show some examples of barriers diverse users face which are caused by architecture and graphic design – with ideas for how to fix them.
Robin Christopherson, Head of Accessibility at AbilityNet and himself blind, will illustrate the key points in designing Web2.0 sites for the broadest audience possible – with a range of practical illustrations of sites that show good and bad practice, and access technologies such as screen reading, magnification and voice recognition software. Robin Christopherson AbilityNet Layout …
Durante la mesa redonda además ha dado tiempo a otra ponencia que podemos leer en el blog de Ricardo Gil. FW’08: Real World with ARIA (Becky Gibson)
Paralela a la mesa redonda sobre CMS estándares, accesibilidad y otros cuentos, ha tenido lugar la ponencia de Steve Faulkner. Gracias a mi compi Ricardo podemos saber qué tal ha ido la charla. FW’08: WAI-ARIA Just Do It!
Mesa redonda en la que intervienen: Moderador: Charles McCathieNevile (Opera) Invitados: Dries Buytaert (Drupal) Wilco Jansen (Joomla!) Alejandro Alves (OpenCMS) ¿Qué tipo de usuarios tienen en sus sistemas? La gente crea las páginas con distintas tecnologías, html, xhtml, etc. Qué están utilizando y para quién. Wilco: para contestar esa pregunta, explica qué es Joompla. Una aplicación php, cuya audiencia crea …