Wendy Chisholm presented on Universal Design last week at the social media event at ZAAZ. Wendy is an independent consultant wrapping up a forthcoming book for O'Reilly on accessibility, and she's been involved with accessibility issues, first with the W3C and later as a consultant, for many years.
I asked Wendy for a take on accessibility on the social web, and here's the result. There's a lot involved, but a good portion of it boils down to standardization and semantics in APIs and I/O interfaces.
For 15 minutes of wisdom and righteousness click here:
And here are the slides:
Because SlideShare's player lacks important accessibility features, Wendy also posted a tagged PDF version.
I must say, I'm chastened not to be posting a transcript in support of that video, but Wendy's post on eating her own dog food while struggling to make her slideshow accessible makes me feel better... a little better.
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