The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are a helpful road map, guiding you down the path towards an accessible web application. But what if you read the map wrong? Join Karl"The Viking" Groves and Billy "The Lumberjack" Gregory as they discuss common WCAG misinterpretations and how to avoid them as only The Viking and The Lumberjack can.
Abstract
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are a helpful road map, guiding you down the path towards an accessible web application. But what if you read the map wrong?
Drawing from the past experiences, Karl"The Viking" Groves and Billy "The Lumberjack" Gregory will highlight key success criteria and how misinterpretation can adversely affect the accessibility of your application.
Join Karl and Billy as they discuss WCAG issues and how to avoid them as only The Viking and The Lumberjack can.
Keypoints
Understanding key success criteria in WCAG 2.0
Learn how to avoid common mistakes
Which SCs are most commonly misinterpteted, and why?
Speaker Bio(s)
Billy Gregory
Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Billy Gregory is a Sr. Accessibility Engineer with The Paciello Group. In his spare time, Billy is active in the Accessibility Community as Co-Organizer of "A11yTO" which organizes Accessibility Camp Toronto and it's monthly meet-up group.
Karl Groves
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