We learned about the last ten years how to make WebPages accessible. But the WebPages changed dramatically. They became fully interactive applications with a lot of new models of interaction. Additionally the web became our all day companion - as well for persons with disabilities. This created new challenges for accessibility but on the same time a lot of new chances for a new kind of accessibility. This talk will give some insights how WAI-ARIA, open APIs and Javascript in general increased accessibility. Finally bridging to the mobile web the talk will provide a view out of the box. Examples how applications not primarily intended for persons with disabilities changed their daily live. The talk will close with a engaging view into the future to encourage everyone to provide new digital services in an accessible way and perhaps shaping a new great inclusive world.

1. Artur Ortega AJAX and mobile web: Challenges and chances for accessibility 2.0 Funkas Tillgänglighetsdagar Stockholm 14 - 15 April 2010 www.funkanu.se

2. Who is Artur Ortega? Blind Software Engineer

3. Who is Artur Ortega?

4. Introduction "To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset

6. Static content Photo: Wayan Vota

7. Collaborative knowledge

8. Simple forms

10. Javascript Automatic conversion from simple, accessible data tables to YUI Charts

11. Javascript Easy YouTube player by Christian Heilmann

12. AJAX Currency converter

13. AJAX Facebook on the new Yahoo! homepage

14. YQL Using YQL to translate Twitter search results into Swedish

15. API Accessible Twitter

16. Mobile Foursquare

17. Mobile Compass

18. Mobile Navigation

19. Mobile Yahoo! Messenger

22. Accessibility After being surprised by the extent to which accessible web and mobile apps can improve independence, we start to wonder what impact an accessible environment has, and we begin to understand the fundamental need for accessibility to create a better tomorrow. Photo: Alex E Proimos

25. Artur Ortega Accessibility Evangelist Yahoo! Europe Ltd 125 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC2H 8AD United Kingdom [email_address]