I could try and summarise this presentation, but it’d be impossible to get across the real impact of hearing him speak.
Although he wasn’t specifically referring to accessibility in his talk, the principles he outlined to consider when buildling web applications should, if properly followed, ensure that developers think about their audience - their entire audience, not just the able bodied section - when doing the latest cool thing with AJAX.
For me, it was an incredibly inspiring talk, and reassuring to see so much focus on the structure, information architecture and planning to underpin the “ooh, shiny!” features of visual design to give a solid user experience.
Building the next generation of Web Applications - Jeffrey Veen (18mb PDF)
