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Accessibility in Flex

Australian law, under the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities legislation requires all corporate entities to provide information in an accessible format to users for all abilities including those who are vision impaired or lack the ability to navigate with a mouse due to muscular conditions.  These are legally binding requirements that have significant implications for corporate entities and the interactive agencies that develop for them. Carly will share insights and pitfalls encountered during the development cycle of accessible flash platform applications.

• Difficulty: Fundamental
• Prerequisites: An interest in Flex and Accessibility.
• Session Track: Flex

Session Detail

Australian law, under the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities legislation requires all corporate entities to provide information in an accessible format to users or all abilities including those who are vision impaired or lack the ability to navigate with a mouse due to muscular conditions.  These are legally binding requirements that have significant implications for corporate entities and the interactive agencies that develop for them.
Many of Flex’s basic components are screen reader and keyboard accessible within a few easy steps. Unfortunately it isn’t smooth sailing once you move away from simple buttons and text fields. During this session you will get insight into bugs and issues that will hamper your journey and techniques to customise and build your own components that interact with the keyboard and screen reader in a nice way.

Speakers

Carly Gooch (Brisbane, Australia)

Carly is a Senior Multimedia Developer for Speedwell eBusiness Solutions, a Development house based in Brisbane and delivering online solutions for a broad client base that includes such well known companies as Dominos Pizza's and Suncorp. More...