Matthew Atkinson “Accessibility Grindhouse” (ID24 2014)

This talk covers two different topics… Matthew takes a look at the problems with HTML4 and HTML5 headings, and demonstrates one potential solution that could solve everything. He then explores progressive enhancement and how it can be used to solve one of the biggest challenges he faces as a screen magnification user.
Matthew came to TPG from an academic background, having worked on research projects improving computer and communication accessibility for older people and affording vision-impaired and blind gamers access to mainstream computer games and 3D level-editing tools. He also enjoyed teaching JavaScript, HTML and CSS. He is experienced in applying accessibility standards to a range of web sites, web and native applications. From his research, he is keen to ensure that information is conveyed as appropriately, robustly and engagingly as possible and, as such, takes a keen interest in providing accessible user experiences and personalisation. Matthew holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (from Loughborough University, UK) and actively develops and contributes code to open-source projects.

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