Global Accessability Awareness Day
2012 May 9
http://droplabs.com





How did I get involved with this........



Need for personalized solutions
      Browser neutrality is the new portability


Web Accessability Initiative:
http://www.w3.org/WAI/

http://lanyrd.com/2009/barcampsd5/coverage/?coverage=slides&domain=edward.oconnor.cx&topics=web-standards

Possibly related Meetups:
  L.A. Usability Professionals' Association Chapter
  Los Angeles User Experience Meetup

Dr. Wayne Dick, CSULB
UUASC-OC
2007 April 9 Accessible IT for People with Disabilities Wayne Dick, 
            California State University Long Beach
     http://www.uuasc.org/p0704.html

Sighted, but legally blind:
  mag application
  ridiculus font sizes


Linux Journal
"Unobtrusive Javascript"
 - Ruven M. Lerner
October 2008 p. 18-22
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10188

"Gracefully Degrade"
(vrs. a real javascript application)
Web Standards
Progressive Enhancement
Some things that should be enhanced by, but not replaced by javascript:
(Vrs. some large library system web sites in Los Angeles County which previously
seemed very accessable)
simple links
form submit input elements
should not need special links to return to the previous page
      (most browsers already supply a way to do this)
should not overide normal browser file download progress display
      (most browsers already supply a way to do this)
Should support tabbed browsing for text *and* graphical browsers
Should not require javascript or flipping to the source view
      of the page to view the basic content
Excessivly cluttered 'printer friendly' pages
Simple to deal with captcha's, with audio captcha support
      slim-rat -> tesseract ->????
Accessable site should not use javascript if the site claims to not use 'script'
        (large supermarket chain in Los Angeles area)
While not always possible, should try to avoid dithering link counts 
        at the beginning of (or over whole of) a web page
        web page as state machine, 
           link numbering  == direct access to the machine code for it
        (leading to....)





Google
accessable web site vrs. new version on blogger.com  
     posting via email, googlecl
Gmail - the hotkey threat





Beating the HTML into usability with Privoxy
   (vs. passively accepting what the web designers shovel out)
     http://www.privoxy.org/
  Website html is too important to be left up to web designers
  Good for essentially Web 1.0 sites
           Roadblocks to using Lynx are simply scr*wing around
  editing in submit input elements
  (for specific sites) 
      editing javascripted popups into simple links 
             (Should there be / Is there a Popup standard????)
      convert javascripted redirection into simple links











Multimedia access

http://www.lafn.org/~aw585/multimedia.outline.txt


videoplayers -> null driver

youtube-dl  (deb, python)
  http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
cclive/clive  (deb: clive, cclive,  clive-utils)
    http://cclive.sourceforge.net/
    http://clive.sourceforge.net/  (perl)
  quvi
    http://quvi.sourceforge.net/
  grake
    http://grake.googlecode.com/
  gcap
    http://gcap.googlecode.com/
  umph
    http://umph.googlecode.com/
  clivefeed
  clivescan
  clivepass
  (abby, nomnom)
youtube-viewer  (universal-streamer, etc, perl)
  http://trizen.go.ro/
  (in some modes, essentially a special purpose browser)
rtmpdump  (deb)
  http://rtmpdump.mplayerhq.hu
get-flash-videos  (deb, perl)
  http://get-flash-videos.googlecode.com/
  (in some modes, essentially a special purpose browser)
movgrab
  http://freecode.com/projects/movgrab
mimms  (deb)
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mimms/
metacafe-dl (python)
  on the way out........
  http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/metacafe-dl/
nicovideo-dl  (python)
  http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/nicovideo-dl/
gnash  (deb)
  http://www.gnashdev.org/
gpodder
  http://gpodder.org/

24x7 streaming sites vrs. Start button
        -> xvfb / firefox

Is HTML5 the solution???

Are Mobile sites the solution???