Dennis Lembree, Director of Accessibility, Diamond
Disability Area: Topic Area:
Length of Session (in hours): 1-hr
Format: Lecture
Expertise Level: All Levels
Type of session: Not provided
Summary of Session
Attend this session to learn more about the intricacies of CSS implementation and to ensure great usability and accessibility of your website. Techniques covered include link design, CSS-generated content, sprites, and CSS3 transitions.
Abstract
In this session, Mr. Lembree discusses several common web design and CSS practices which may cause problems for some users. Techniques covered include link design, CSS-generated content, labels and placeholders, sprites, and CSS3 transitions. Attend this session to learn more about the intricacies of CSS implementation and to ensure great usability and accessibility of your website.
Kepoints
Users are different and may encounter problems with some common CSS practices.
Designing a text link involves many considerations which are often ignored.
CSS techniques such as sprites and transitions may have accessibility issues.
Speaker Bio(s)
Dennis Lembree
Mr. Lembree is the Director of Accessibility at Diamond Web Services. Previously, he worked for five years as Sr Accessibility Consultant at Deque Systems and several years on the PayPal and eBay accessibility teams. He has experience at several start-up companies and has contracted at large corporations including Google, Ford, and Disney. Mr. Lembree has published articles, led webinars, and presented on digital accessibility at many conferences including HTML5 DevCon, CSS DevCon, CSUN, AccessU, Accessibility Toronto, and Paris Web. Dennis runs a blog (and Twitter account) on web accessibility called Web Axe; and he created an accessible, two-time national award-winning Twitter app, Easy Chirp.