Post-CSUN Resources

My last podcast previewed CSUN (The 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference), which happened last week. It was a great success. Fortunately a few folks have written great summaries of the event, listed below. Also, I've posted some CSUN11 photos on Flickr.

Here are two excellent resources for session presentations and more:

• The Great Big List from the 2011 CSUN Conference by Curb Cut.
• CSUN 2011 Web highlights by Leonie Watson.

A couple notable blog posts:

• My March Madness - John Foliot.
• Lightening Talk on Accessible Twitter updates at CSUN Tweetup - Dennis Lembree.

Suggested presentations relating to web accessibility are:

• Accessibility of HTML5 and Rich Internet Applications (WebAIM and The Paciello Group): ARIA Morning Session | ARIA Afternoon Session
• Accessible HTML5 media players, captions, audio description and search (PDF) - Terrill Thompson.
• Making rich internet applications accessible through jQuery (PDF) - Chris Blouch (AOL) and Hans Hillen (TPG)
• Using the barcamp/unconference format - Jennison Asuncion, James Timony and John F Croston.
• Improving Web Accessibility for the Elderly - Roger Hudson.
• DISTCHA: an attempt to kill CAPTCHA - Vincent François & Samuel Sirois.

Any more to add? Please comment!

Additions

• Successfully Integrating Accessibility in your Organization's Web Development Lifecycle - Denis Boudreau

Podcast #89: CSUN 2011 Preview

Dennis and special guests Jennison Asuncion (@Jennison) and Jared Smith (@jared_w_smith) discuss the upcoming CSUN conference in San Diego, California, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, March 14-19, 2011. The official title and website is: 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference.
NOTE: Apologies for the poor quality. (But the content is outstanding!)
Download Web Axe Episode 89 (CSUN 2011 Preview)
Transcript of podcast 89

Sponsor:
Project:Possibility is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating open source software that benefits the disabilities community, and educating students on accessibility and universal design concepts. This is accomplished with the SS12 Code for a Cause: an opportunity for students to make a profound difference by developing innovative, empowering projects for persons with disabilities, as well as the chance to work with industry professionals.

Jennison presenting:

• Building IT Accessibility Awareness and Community Using the Barcamp/Unconference Format. Wednesday, 9:20.
• Do We Need to Change the Web Accessibility Game Plan? Panel with John Foliot, Sandi Wassmer, and Jennison. Thursday, 3:10.

Jared presenting:

• HTML5/ARIA pre-conference workshop w/ Steven Faulkner and Hans Hillen of TPG. All day Tuesday.
• Screen Reader Web Accessibility Face-off. Wednesday, 3:10.
• Do We Need to Change the Web Accessibility Game Plan? Panel with John Foliot, Sandi Wassmer, and Jennison. Thursday, 3:10.
• WebAIM's Screen Reader User Surveys: Data and Trends. Friday, 8am.
• Preview of WAVE 5 on Friday, 10:40.

More info:

• There is a (now annual) CSUN Tweet-up Thursday at 6pm. Lightning talks, food, and fun! (Contact Jared if you want to sponsor.)
• The Twitter hash tag for the event is "#CSUN11".
• Exhibit Hall-Only entry will be free once again.
• CSUN On Lanyrd
• CSUN11 on LinkedIn
• CSUN11 on Facebook
• Saturday morning: Dennis on a panel of judges (Sat morn) for the SS12 Code-A-Thon finals!
• Register for CSUN11

Link Roundup including CSUN - March 2010

Another set of great links on web accessibility for March 2010. In addition, see below for post-CSUN links, roundups and presentations!

• Be Kind to the Color Blind - ColourLovers
  
• Why Captioning? - Stanford University
  
• Stop Using JAWS for Web Accessibility Testing? - Clear Helper
  
• Making the mobile internet accessible for all - ComputerWeekly
  
• NCAA college basketball tournament bracket - Terrill Thompson
  
• Problems with CAPTCHA and audio CAPTCHA alternative - groups.drupal
  
• What Is A Braille Display And How It Is Used - Even Grounds
  
• Call for speaker proposals for "13th Annual Accessing Higher Ground" conference. First round due April 2.
• Why websites shouldn't accommodate disabled users - by Pete Love (e.g. use universal design)
• Accessibility Review: Target.com - by Joe Dolson (post lawsuit)
• Screen Readers And WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles - Léonie Watson
  
• Variations on Ginader's [Awesome] Accessible Tabs - Accessible Culture
  
• Accessibility of Links by Steve Grobschmidt
• Web Accessibility Preferences Are For Sissies? - WebAIM
  
• Boston Accessibility Unconference is May 15
• Web Accessibility Fears and Ways to Conquer Them - Even Grounds
  

CSUN Summaries

• CSUN Conference 2010 - great summary by Nicholas Zakas
  
• Insights into the 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference - The DAISY Planet
• CSUN 2010 recap - Marco of Mozilla
• More Audio Coverage of CSUN 2010 - Blind Bargains [no transcriptions]
• CSUN photos from Dennis - a dozen or show snapshots

CSUN Presentations

• Stanford Captioning System: A Workflow Model for Producing Captioned Media - includes link to PDF of presentation
  
• Download the Adaptech presentation on social media use & accessibility; view the entire survey, too.
• Importance of Accessibility for a Successful and Future-Proof Business - Artur Ortega of Yahoo
• Accessibility of Twitter - by and Joseph O'Connor and Dennis Lembree

Addendum

• Adobe Slides from CSUN 2010 Talks
• DAISY Consortium's Presentation at CSUN (captioned video)
• Point-and-Chat info and presentations (AAC application)
• Presentations from WebAIM - great stuff!

Contribute to Twitter Presentation at CSUN10

Twitter And Assistive Tech

Dennis Lembree (@dennisl) and Joseph O'Connor (@csunwebmaster) are presenting "Accessibility of Twitter for Mobile, Desktop and Web" at the 25th Annual International Technology and Persons With Disabilities Conference in San Diego, California. The conference dates are from March 22 to 27. The presentation is scheduled at 8 a.m., Thursday, March 25.

You Can Help!

We are asking you to tweet about using Twitter with assistive tech on two topics:

• How do you deal with the interfaces?
• How has Twitter changed things for you?

Optional: audio record the written Tweets at http://twaud.io/ or whatever you want to use. If you do record, please be sure to record what you have written in each Tweet you write. Write a Tweet, record that Tweet. You don't have to record your Tweets to participate.

Accessible Twitter

This might be a good time to try Dennis Lembree's Accessible Twitter site and to Tweet about the experience.

How We'll Use Your Tweets

We will use the Tweets/audio in our #csun10 presentation. We'll present the Tweets on screen and hear the words - something for everyone. We'll be looking for patterns such as the use of desktop applications with ZoomText, or mobile text with Talks, or mobile app with VoiceOver. These patterns will be touch-points for our presentation.

Hashtag

The hashtag for these Tweets will be #csun10s with the "s" representing story.

When Do I Start?

The days/dates we'll be collecting Tweets and audio are Friday, February 26 - Saturday, February 27 in the northern hemisphere; Saturday, February 27 - Sunday, February 28 in the southern hemisphere.

Be Creative!

Feel free to be creative, to have fun, to be serious, to be furious, to be whoever you are. You know you want to do it!

NOTE:
This article on Joseph O'Connor's web site Black Telephone