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Artur Ortega AJAX and mobile web: Challenges and chances for accessibility 2.0. Funkas Tillgänglighetsdagar Stockholm 14 - 15 April 2010 www.funkanu.se. Who is Artur Ortega?. Blind Software Engineer. Who is Artur Ortega?. Introduction.
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Artur Ortega AJAX and mobile web: Challenges and chances for accessibility 2.0 Funkas Tillgänglighetsdagar Stockholm 14 - 15 April 2010 www.funkanu.se
Who is Artur Ortega? Blind Software Engineer
Introduction "To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.” –Jose Ortega y Gasset
Javascript Automatic conversion from simple, accessible data tables to YUI Charts 10
Javascript Easy YouTube player by Christian Heilmann 11
AJAX Currency converter 12
AJAX Facebook on the new Yahoo! homepage 13
YQL Using YQL to translate Twitter search results into Swedish 14
API Accessible Twitter 15
Mobile Foursquare 16
Mobile Compass 17
Mobile Navigation 18
Mobile Yahoo! Messenger 19
Mobile • Other useful applications • Starbucks • Toiluxe • Qype Radar • Tube Deluxe • London Bus • Tesco Clubcard 20
Accessibility After being surprised by the extent to which accessible web and mobile apps can improve independence, we start to wonder what impact an accessible environment has, and we begin to understand the fundamental need for accessibility to create a better tomorrow. 22
Accessibility “Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.” –Jose Ortega y Gasset
Artur Ortega Accessibility Evangelist Yahoo! Europe Ltd125 Shaftesbury AvenueLondon WC2H 8ADUnited Kingdomortega@yahoo-inc.com 25