"The IWMW event provides an opportunity for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services to hear about institutional case studies, national initiatives and emerging technologies and to actively participate in a number of parallel sessions."

IWMW 2013 is the seventeenth workshop.

Plenary Talk P5: Stop Trying to Avoid Losing and Start Winning: How BS 8878 Reframes the Accessibility Question

Title:

Stop Trying to Avoid Losing and Start Winning: How BS 8878 Reframes the Accessibility Question

Session Tag:

#P5

Time:

Thursday 27^th June 2013 from 09:00-10:45

Speaker:

Jonathan Hassell, Hassell Inclusion

Abstract:

Accessibility is all about checklists, HTML and assistive technologies. Its only impact on User Experience is to stop designers from being creative.

Sometimes, you'd be forgiven for thinking that those two statements are true.

Professor Jonathan Hassell has spent much of his last three years disproving them, both at the BBC and in other organisations, and coding how accessibility should be seen in the context of user-centred design into BS 8878.

In this presentation, he'll show how BS 8878 provides a framework for helping web professionals embed accessibility considerations into their work, how it can empower and free them from onerous constraints, how it can challenge them to be more creative, and how the results can benefit all users, not just those with disabilities.

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