A11Y Talks (September 2018) - Love thy Keyboard

Posted by volkswagenchick on August 21, 2018 at 9:22pm

Start:

2018-09-25 12:00 - 13:00 America/New_York

Organizers:

volkswagenchick

cehfisher

dbungard

Event type:

User group meeting

Date: September 25, 2018 (12pm ET)
Topic: Love thy Keyboard
Speaker: Sarbbottam Bandyopadhyay (https://twitter.com/sarbbottam)
YouTube recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNHwmuCIMl0

Sarbbottam is a frontend engineer, working in the web space for more than 14 years, currently at LinkedIn. He had been part of LinkedIn's core accessibility team, focusing primarily on web accessibility.

He has been involved with web accessibility since his Yahoo days.

Keyboard accessibility is extremely critical, as many assistive devices emulate the keyboard. Using semantic HTML one can achieve accessible UI with less code than non-semantic markup.

Along with Semantic HTML, by managing and guiding focus, developing an accessible UI is not difficult, rather easy. Semantic HTML plays an important role in Accessibility as well as SEO. Though we are aware of it, it's often overlooked.

This presentation will share the trade-offs of using semantic vs non-semantic markup with an everyday example and how to manage and guide focus. It's a brief presentation emphasizing the various aspect of keyboard accessibility. Last but not the least a brief introduction to WAI-ARIA.

If you have any questions for our speaker please use the hashtag #A11yTalks on Twitter!