Speakers: Derek Featherstone

Session

5 Critical Concepts: Ajax and Accessibility

In this quick tour, we'll discover 5 critical pieces that you need to make your Ajax more accessible. Keep these things in mind while you're building your sites and apps, and you're on the right path.

Bio

Engaging, surprising, and inspiring, Derek Featherstone is an internationally-known authority on accessibility and web development, a respected technical trainer, and author. Creator of in-depth courses on HTML, CSS, DOM Scripting, and Web 2.0 applications, his approach never fails to champion the cause of web standards and universal accessibility.

As founder of Further Ahead (http://furtherahead.com), he has been an in-demand consultant to government agencies, educational institutions, and private sector companies since 1999. He is the Group Lead of the influential Web Standards Project and has served on their Accessibility and DOM Scripting Task Forces.