Elevator Pitch
During this talk, I discuss research into website accessibility overlays and their marketing messages and explained why overlays are not recommended to make websites accessible. They can, in fact, add accessibility problems to websites and make them more difficult to use.
Description
This talk is an examination of the distance between fantasy and reality in the case of accessibility overlays. During this talk, I discuss research into website accessibility overlays and their marketing messages and explained why overlays are not recommended to make websites accessible. They can, in fact, add accessibility problems to websites and make them more difficult to use.
Notes
I’m an engaging speaker with a over a decade of experience presenting, holding workshops, and training. I’ve spoken in 7 countries and 11 US states.
18 videos of some of my presentations can be seen at http://www.karlgroves.com/presentations/
Below is a partial the conferences I’ve spoken at:
- NationJS, Washington DC (multiple)
- Beyond Tellerand, Germany
- ParisWeb, Paris France (multiple)
- Better By Design, Madison Wisconsin (workshop)
- Fronteers Spring Conference, Amsterdam Netherlands
- Elements Web Conference at Penn State
- IEEE Information Visualization, Baltimore Maryland
- Annual Conference of the Society for Technical Communications, Baltimore Maryland
- Frontend Conference, Zurich Switzerland
- RVA JavaScript Conference