1. Inclusive development: some notes
Kaido Kikkas
Associate professor
Estonian IT College / Tallinn University
Garage48, November 2014
2. Why?
● The website that nobody can access has no
point at all
● The website that 10% of audience cannot
access has 10% less point than it should
● (plus, Mom told that we all should play nice!)
3. Who?
● People with different disabilities
– Visual impairments
– Mobility/coordination impairments
– Hearing impairments
– Cognitive impairments
● The axiom of accessibility – things that are
created accessible are friendly overall
4. How?
● Follow the standards (W3C)
● Responsive web design
● Accessibility considerations
– http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/
– WAI ARIA (see text and links at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAI-ARIA)
5. With what?
● W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org)
● WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/)
– Toolbar (http://wave.webaim.org/toolbar/)
● Google Chrome Accessibility Developer
Tools (A Damn Long URL in Chrome Apps)
● Text-based browsers (Lynx etc)
● ...
6. Good luck!
These slides @ Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/UncleOwl
Inquiries/questions: kakk@kakupesa.net
7. Good luck!
These slides @ Slideshare:
http://www.slideshare.net/UncleOwl
Inquiries/questions: kakk@kakupesa.net