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Hey South By panel pickers! My name is Paul J. Adam, Accessibility Evangelist
at Deque Systems.
I'm proposing a panel on mobile accessibility and usability called
iAccessibility - Mobile Freedom for All.
my target audience is web and mobile developers and designers who want to
reach the widest audience possible
Although accessibility is legally required to do business with Government
and higher education
after seeing how easy it is you'll be excited to step you game up and make all
your apps and websites accessible.
iPhones & iPads offer digital access to anyone with a Vision, Hearing
, Learning, or Physical disability.
how do people who are blind use computers the internet and mobile apps
did you know they can even take photos with an iphone as VoiceOver announces
the number of faces visible on the camera
i will show you accessibility features of the mobile safari web browser and how
to improve navigation of your websites and apps for the blind
here in the web rotor settings of Voicever
blind users are able to select which html elements that would like to
navigate by on your site
I've selected some useful elements and we'll show you how this works on the
south by website
I'll enable voice-over using triple click home
VoiceOver on
landscape
home button to the left
safari
I'll switch to the south by website
SXSW
selected
contact
And I can enable
The web rotor
using this spin gesture
Headings 26 headings
There are twenty-six headings present on the site
I can flick down to navigate between the headings
Home heading level one
Home link some summer FAQs about SXSW housing two thousand and two thousand
twelve sponsors SXSW News
five any nominations for SXSW alum Lena Dunham & HBO's Girls
Heading l links
one hundred contact link list start press link
advertising
SXSW buy a badge book a room sXSW form controls
six form controls
Enter the terms you wish to search for sX S apply that email enter your email
address subscribe button
images
thirteen image SX underscore school underscore schedules _12_bug jp
film underscore sic underscore 12
start up underscore village underscore twelve rena jpg
ben underscore out of school catering to sundance twenty six thousand
nine hundred and eight underscore jpg
you can hear that the images on this page do not have an alt attribute
as they're reading the file name which sounds like gibberish
apples voice over screen reader includes the most human like voices and you
can even make your iPhone talk in a variety of female and male accents and languages
So let's switch between some of the english accents available
Language
irish english
south african English
default language
U S English
british english
Australian english
I prefer australian english
i'll switch back to the default language to demonstrate language tags
british english
default language you
Languages with
languages
if you add language tags to your HTML content
Voiceover will speak the text in the correct language and accent
To demonstrate automatically language detection
we start in English and wright
my computer speaks english
Then we write the same sentence in French,
mon ordinateur parle français
and then in Spanish
mi computadora habla español
and in Portuguese
meu computador fala o português
and the same in German
mein computer spricht deutsch
and in Russian
Мой компьютер говорит по-русски
and in Finnish
Tietokoneeni puhuu suomea
and in Italian
il mio computer parla italiano
and in I know you're thinking, man I could have totally passed spanish class with this!
please vote for my panel
and come see & hear a live demo of the future of mobile accessibility
The newest iOS 6 accessibility features including Guided Access for
students with autism will be demonstrated
Thanks South By! Thanks for your vote! I hope to see you all next year!