WordCamp Toronto Slides: Selfish Accessibility

As promised, slides from my talk this morning at WordCamp Toronto:

I have also embedded the video:

Ego-Building Tweets

I like audience feedback, moreso when it’s positive. I’ve also added some general tweets about the accessibility track.

Starting the day with "Selfish Accessibility" #A11Y #WCTO pic.twitter.com/5RoRFSyg7r

— Alicia Jarvis (@AJarvis728) November 15, 2014

Truth. "Everyone is a keyboard user when eating with their mouse hand" – @aardrian #a11y #wcto

— Shawn Hooper (@ShawnHooper) November 15, 2014

"It's easier to cook a turkey than it is to install Window updates." — @aardrian

— Chris Van Patten (@ChrisVanPatten) November 15, 2014

Start supporting accessibility now. It will help serve future you! – @aardrian #a11y #wcto

— Shawn Hooper (@ShawnHooper) November 15, 2014

In Windows 7, Press "left Shift + left Alt + PrtScn" to activate high contrast mode. #a11y #wcto

— Shawn Hooper (@ShawnHooper) November 15, 2014

Got to see @aardrian do his talk on Selfish A11y at @WCYYZ. A few other times we've always presented opposite each other.

— Karl Groves (@karlgroves) November 15, 2014

It took three tries, but I finally figured out how to open @abokichi’s onigiri at #WCTO. Tasty! http://t.co/cJcYL5ppXd

— Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) November 15, 2014

You know what's awesome? #WCTO is a mainstream camp w/ a FULL #a11y track. The event itself is accessible too! Thanks @WCYYZ !

— Billy Gregory (@thebillygregory) November 15, 2014

A suggestion from @seanyo to print and bind WCAG guidelines and read from it like a spell book. Trying this at gaming next week. #wcto

— Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) November 15, 2014

Some of #a11y presenters at #WCTO: @monsika @karlgroves @thebillygregory @seanyo. Also, Lumberjack & Viking. http://t.co/fKSwk1Oz51

— Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) November 15, 2014

Accessibility speakers at @WCYYZ WordCamp Toronto: @aardrian @karlgroves @GeniusWebMedia @thebillygregory @seanyo #WCTO

— Joseph Karr O'Connor (@AccessibleJoe) November 15, 2014

First session today at #wcto, the room so rapt with speaker that motion sensors turned off lights partway through from lack of movement.

— Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) November 16, 2014

I should start every talk with jazz hands. RT @AJarvis728: Starting the day with "Selfish Accessibility" #A11Y #WCTO pic.twitter.com/ipEjQlSTHK

— Adrian Roselli (@aardrian) November 15, 2014

Other Talks

I spent Saturday in the accessibility track (I missed one talk, sadly). There was some overlap on general themes, which I think was good. Overall, anyone who visited one talk still got a common baseline, while those who stayed for the day had the core accessibility information reinforced across speakers.

I was thrilled I got to present in the same track as Billy Gregory and Karl Groves, also known as The Viking and The Lumberjack. These guys know their stuff.

• Monika Piotrowicz, Web Accessibility – A feature you can build
• Karl Groves, Next-gen A11y Testing Tools
• Billy Gregory, Use ARIA Now!
• Sean Yo, Fixing Inaccessible Content