Accessible Interface Design: tips, patterns and concepts to making accessible web applications
Presented by Mark McKay

Date: Tuesday March 17, 2009
Time: 7:00pm
Place: TheCodeFactory, 246 Queen St., Ottawa

There are a lot of places where you can learn about the standards but there is almost no information on how best to apply them. This article tries to fill the void by showing real world examples of where to use accessible design patterns and principles and making small design changes can make major improvements in an application’s accessibility.

This presentation will be a follow on to my two UXprofessional.com articles and a warm up for my talk at UPA 2009 in Portland in June.

Accessible Interface Design, Part 2
http://uxprofessionals.com/2008/11/04/accessible-interface-design-part-2/

Accessible Interface Design, Part 1
http://uxprofessionals.com/2008/10/01/accessible-interface-design-part-1/

Biography

Mark McKay is a specialist in the field of Interaction Design for the disabled. He currently works as an Interaction Designer within Industry Canada’s Interaction Design Group (IDG) where he performs analysis and designs applications. He is also a founder and CEO of SpokenText.net, a free online text-to-speech converter for the print disabled, students and busy professionals from all over the world.  His new project OnlyASurvey.com is a fully accessible online survey site for simple, accessible, secure surveys and is CLF 2 and 508 compliant.  In his long career of designing and developing accessible applications he has worked on everything from a speech enabled interface for an e-Learning CD-ROM to enterprise client management systems.

Mark can be reached at mark@onlyasurvey.com