My OperaKeyboard accessibility presentation at Future of Web Design Tour 2009 in Glasgow
By Patrick H. Laukepatrickhlauke. Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:31:05 PM
On Monday, 14 September, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Glasgow leg of the Future of Web Design Tour 2009 on the topic of Keyboard accessibility - basic steps towards a more usable and accessible site.
The slides are available in OpenOffice (7.5MB) and PDF (9.85MB) format. Also, make sure to fact-check the results of my small experiment to find a better CSS outline suppression.
It was great to meet up with the local web design and development community, and I’m glad my presentation – and fellow Opera colleague Bruce Lawson’s reprise of his Future of HTML 5 overview – went down well.
Many thanks to the fine folks at Carsonified for the perfect venue and flawless organisation, and a special thanks to Andy Clarke and Paul Boag for agreeing to let their sites be ripped apart and used as examples.
Charles SchlossChas4 # Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:18:25 AM
Mağruf ÇolakoğluZAHEK # Wednesday, September 16, 2009 6:18:11 AM
Eddie LopezEddie_Lopez # Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:36:19 PM
Namely, it would be nice to have the "alt-letter" access to your dialog widgets. We can tab through them and hit enter, but, it would be nice to just use the Windows "alt" functionality within the dialogs.
Demonstration: In Opera, open the preferences panel (alt-p) and then look at the "General" tab. The two buttons "use current" and "Details" are not accessible other than by tabbing.
Now look at the similar functionality in Firefox, (options, main) you'll see the three buttons "Use Current" "Use Bookmark" etc... all have indicators showing which button alt-letter combo to use.