TV Raman continues… Quotes: “Building accessibility for the web platform” and “we’re getting close to an inflection point” where things will get much easier to use. A couple of my questions for the planned “fireside chat” with the Google crew later: Do all the features described today require use of Chromebook hardware, ChromeOS, and ChromeVox? […]
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Drive and Docs Suite Ajay Surie and team (slide went by too quickly) “These are rich web applications that allow creation of rich content within a web browser” TEXT FROM SLIDE: “Building accessibility for complex web applications is still hard. Docs is built on JavaScript; working with ChromeVox has allowed us to iterate rapidly and […]
Next up: Gmail Alex Gawley, Director, Product Management Original product was loaded with JavaScript and designed for sighted users. Last couple years, we’ve been focused on adding much better support for blind users. We now have extensive support for ARIA labelling Manual testing for new features Automated tests for regressions (tests addition of new features […]
Min and Kenji of Chrome OS team: Chrome OS and Chromebooks Leans on speed, simplicity and security of ChromeOS They’re cheap. Boot in under 8 seconds, hassle-free, maintenance-free. Just sign in with Google account…all your stuff is “in the cloud.” Idea here is that your stuff is not tied to a specific machine, which is […]
Getting started now. TV Raman introduced himself and is giving a brief overview of the session today. Who’s here? Alan Warren: VP, engineering TV Raman, Lead, Google Accessibility Some of the things that’ll be talked about today: ChromeOS Drive Docs Suite Gmail What Google is doing in the field of accessibility, including all aspects of […]