Session

Full-stack Accessibility

Jeremy Sydik, Director of Research Technology Development, University of Nebraska -- Lincoln Center for Instructional Innovation

Date: Friday, May 18
Time: 4:25pm - 5:15pm
Location: Oregon Ballroom 202

At the University of Nebraska's Accommodation Resource Center, Rails has been an important topic of interest. First, we use Rails as the platform for our web development, including our online presence, an expert system for making better student-technology matches called Accommodation Solutions Online, and a proposed social networking platform to match disabled high school students with post-secondary mentors. By extension, the topic of Rails accessibility is obviously of interest to us and we have been examining ways to make this process easier as well as watching what has been done by other developers. At the last RailsConf, there were a number of people who expressed interest in this and some advances have been made in the last year. This session will also look at what the concerns were and what has been done in the last year to improve this situation.
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