London Accessibility Meetup #4

Speaker 1: Matthew Atkinson

Exploring the Use of the Web Audio API to Improve Chart Accessibility

Charts and plots are engaging and widely used, but present barriers to people with vision impairments. AudioChart provides an aural, keyboard-accessible means to experience them.

Speaker 2: Jack Armley

ARIA: The why, what and when

We’ll be looking at how to treat ARIA right, with some initial context and then some demos using a screenreader.

We’ll cover:

• Why do we need ARIA?

• What is ARIA?

• How ARIA should be used (3 golden rules)