My Talks
Very occasionally, I get the opportunity to share what I do with my fellow geeks. On this page you’ll find slides, examples, resources, links and whatnot for these various talks and training sessions.
Progressive Enhancement with Flash
Yahoo! Developer Summit, London, December 2007
Description
Flash is often viewed as an ‘all or nothing’ technology, where either your site is made up of the holy troika of web standards technologies (that’d be HTML/CSS/JS) or it’s 100% Flash and screw those who don’t have the right version of the Flash Player. There is a happy medium, where Flash can fit into the progressive enhancement approach we all use with HTML/CSS/JS sites, leveraging the advanced features of the Flash Player for those users that have it.
Slides
Resources
- Video on Yahoo Developer Network (coming soon)
- Download example files
Flash & Accessibility
Yahoo! Developer Summit, London, December 2007
Description
You rarely see the terms Flash and accessibility used together in a sentence, and yet the Flash Player has had the ability to integrate with assistive technologies for almost six years. In this session we’ll dispell the myth that all Flash content is inaccessible, and show you how Flash can help to tackle accessibility issues that go beyond standard assistive technologies such as screen readers.
Slides
Resources
- Video on Yahoo Developer Network (coming soon)
- Download example files (coming soon)
